Week ending Sunday 2011/12/04

Monday 08:19 · Misscrolling: www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2011/11/26/Misscrolling [Original.]

Monday 11:07 · @joshuatopolsky Um er seems gone. [Original, responding to @joshuatopolsky.]

Monday 22:24 · @unclebobmartin If I want a good password, I'll ask 1password or a competitor [Original, responding to @unclebobmartin.]

Wednesday 10:47 · Riding the Caltrain. Announcer has a hard Boston accent and is cracking actually-funny jokes. Incongruous but OK. [Original.]

Wednesday 21:45 · @headius I ran screaming in the other direction [Original, responding to @headius.]

Thursday 15:53 · @headius Yeah, somewhere. [Original, responding to @headius.]

Thursday 15:56 · @headius I could try it out on a recent JRuby. Big probs included array#[] calling to_i on every arg. [Original, responding to @headius.]

Thursday 16:09 · Font I picked for my blog (FF Tisa) is 10th most popular at Typekit: blog.typekit.com/2011/12/01/your-favorite-fonts/ [Original.]

Thursday 16:19 · @headius Will do. Haven’t tried the 1.9 branch in a couple years too. [Original, responding to @headius.]

Thursday 16:41 · @mattg Seems like there’s a cool new phone from whoever every 3 weeks or so. [Original, responding to @mattg.]

Thursday 17:43 · Four Scifis, one with divine sex: www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2011/12/01/Three-Scifis [Original.]

Friday 10:39 · @headius @bascule Could speed up rx with some regex hackery but in principle hardwired DFA should be faster. [Original, responding to @headius.]

Friday 10:47 · @KuraFire @Gruber Call me old-fashioned, but I think the browser should just show the user where they were sent, without extra work from me. [Original, responding to @KuraFire.]

Friday 11:18 · Charles Nutter (@headius) hauled my RX thingie out of the past and onto github: [Original.]

Friday 11:38 · Book Review: “The 9/11 Wars” www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2011/12/01/9-11-Wars [Original.]

Friday 14:35 · @bascule I use Nokogiri too. But not requiring libxml2 would be a win, so worth a shot. [Original, responding to @bascule.]

Friday 14:48 · @bascule I just think it's good when Ruby's libraries are in Ruby. Not always possible I know. [Original, responding to @bascule.]

Friday 15:07 · @tenderlove Granted, but sometimes I think libxml2 is part of the problem... [Original, responding to @tenderlove.]

Friday 16:02 · @avibryant Congrats [Original, responding to @avibryant.]

Friday 17:32 · @headius You say “DFA” like it’s a bad thing [Original, responding to @headius.]

Friday 17:33 · @headius Hmf, I or someone needs to buckle down and find some less-JRuby-specific RX optimizations. 1.9.3 picture still not pretty. [Original, responding to @headius.]

Friday 17:37 · Now here's a kid with a bright future: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/story/2011/12/02/pei-daycare-child-escape-584.html [Original.]

Friday 19:05 · @headius <reads autotranslated Japanese> Cool, but not terribly useful in the short term, right? [Original, responding to @headius.]

Saturday 20:59 · Few things are more irritating than seeing but not being able to capture a pretty good picture. [Original.]

Saturday 21:00 · @willsnow Kill the spider, for sure. [Original, responding to @willsnow.]

Saturday 21:14 · Haha caught that picture: [Original.]

Saturday 21:32 · @piersadrian Please send feedback; [Original, responding to @piersadrian.]

Sunday 10:42 · Android graphics true facts: [Original.]

Sunday 16:02 · It's really hard not like the Packers. That’s some awfully good football. [Original.]

Sunday 20:16 · @romannurik It was a good game! But you can’t give Rodgers the ball with a minute left on the clock. [Original, responding to @romannurik.]

Sunday 20:25 · @pkedrosky You’re listening to the wrong radio. [Original, responding to @pkedrosky.]


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