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September 2009

E-mails from an Asshole

by everyueveryme
This is a collection of e-mails I have sent to people who post classified ads. My goal is to mess with them, confuse them, and/or piss them off.

August 2009

The HTML5 Equilibrium

by marco
The result is that HTML5 appears to be a self-contradictory mess. But it's hard to imagine a successful web technology that isn't a mess. That's because the web itself is a mess.

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July 2009

FeedStitch | Take your jumbled mess of feeds and make them one

by karlcow & 1 other

It's easy, for real. FeedStitch gives you the power to pull data feeds from all over the web & stitch them into a single feed of awesome power & limitless internet usage potential.

We cover the basics with HTML and RSS, but we also speak JSON so you can republish the data however you want on your site. Kaboom!

HTML 5 is a mess. Now what? – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report

by night.kame 1 comment

So I’ve tended to be plain accepting that HTML 5 will be whatever it is, and if its bad its bad because of Hickson and a certain crowd. I have no power to affect the obsessive thoughts of certain individuals one way or the other. I’m also probably representative of quite a large group of the silent disenchanted who will continue to code in HTML 4 or XHTML 1 well into the future and fight on building websites in whatever tag soup monstrosity we are burdened with on the day.

HTML 5 est "community driven", ce qui concrètement signifie que seuls ceux qui ont la capacité de travailler à plein temps dessus ont une petite chance de faire entendre une voix différente de la WTF. Mais de toute façon, vu comme c'est parti, HTML 5 finira en browser-sniffing (ou "feature detection" comme on dit aujourd'hui), ce qui en fait déjà un échec immense.

June 2009

March 2009

dokdok - keep sending attachments, we'll fix the mess

by karlcow

Yes, sending attachments becomes very messy but it's convenient and everyone gets it, even our non-techy clients. As bad as it is, emails still beats every document management system we tried!

Alex Payne — The Problem With Email Clients

by karlcow 2 comments

In desktop email clients, new messages arrive completely bereft of context. The only way to orient yourself is to either remember what the conversation was about or read through the mess of quoted text that may or may not be present at the bottom of the message, depending on what kind of email client or prefences the sender has. You could try searching to re-orient yourself, but good luck with that in Outlook or Mail.app.

smart folder?

February 2009

Database versus files for Images at Spindrop

by Xavier Lacot
Dave gives his feedback on a long-debated developement topic : storing files in database or on the filesystem. "I had been serving images via the database. Immediately when I switched to the filesystem I saw a huge benefit. Not just a drop in database connections, but overall “zippiness” in the site. We’ll see how well this performs in the real world, but I am quite sure that I learned my lesson." All this makes sense : files are not data, they are just files. A filesystem is designed for hosting files. A database is designed for hosting data. Don't mess things.

Alfonso Bozzelli » Blog Archive » Visualizing Mozilla Community. A design proposal

by karlcow

This visualization is a concept for the LizardFeeder and it’s built with jQuery and SVG plugin. Code is a mess, so I’ll post only some (retouched) screenshots.

October 2008

In Soviet Russia, Lake Contaminates You

by jeanruaud
The Mayak Chemical Combine is now credited by the Worldwatch Institute as the creator of the "most polluted spot" in history, a mess whose true magnitude is yet to be known.

You don't mess with The Colbert, Oliver Stone

by bouilloire
C'est rare de rire autant dans ce segment là de l'émission, là c'est mythique :)

September 2008

WebAIM: Blog - History of the browser user-agent string

by Neewok & 2 others

And then Google built Chrome, and Chrome used Webkit, and it was like Safari, and wanted pages built for Safari, and so pretended to be Safari. And thus Chrome used WebKit, and pretended to be Safari, and WebKit pretended to be KHTML, and KHTML pretended to be Gecko, and all browsers pretended to be Mozilla, and Chrome called itself Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13, and the user agent string was a complete mess, and near useless, and everyone pretended to be everyone else, and confusion abounded.

WebAIM: Blog - History of the browser user-agent string

by znarf & 2 others

And then Google built Chrome, and Chrome used Webkit, and it was like Safari, and wanted pages built for Safari, and so pretended to be Safari. And thus Chrome used WebKit, and pretended to be Safari, and WebKit pretended to be KHTML, and KHTML pretended to be Gecko, and all browsers pretended to be Mozilla, and Chrome called itself Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13, and the user agent string was a complete mess, and near useless, and everyone pretended to be everyone else, and confusion abounded.

August 2008

home · TinyMe

by cascamorto
TinyMe, a remaster of PCLinuxOS, comes packaged in a miniscule 200MB or smaller ISO. We do this for those of you who have old computers, like to mess around with small/fast systems, or just want a minimal environment. TinyMe is comparable to distributions like Puppy, AntiX, and DSL.

July 2008

The G8 in a global mess: 1920s and 1980s lessons | open Democracy News Analysis

by karlcow

Philip Stephens notes that - despite Japan's still considerable role in the global economy - the country's politicians are the weaklings of global geopolitics. "Where is Japan?", he asks. "The question is one of psychology rather than geography. Japan is still the world's second most powerful economy. Politically, it is all but invisible" (see "Japan goes missing: invisible host at the summit", Financial Times, 4 July 2008).

May 2008

Avoiding the “Ouch” Side of Social Media | Serengeti Communications

by Myriam (via)
Play fair. Clean up your own mess. Say you’re sorry when you hurt someone. Share/give back.

April 2008

Toxic | Garbage Island | VBS.TV

by ronpish
ABOUT GARBAGE ISLAND For years we’ve been reading about a patch of garbage the size of Texas floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, ingeniously dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Basically, any trash that gets dumped in the water rides the currents to this one spot and joins an ever-increasing flotilla of crap. For all the breathless accounts of the mess and its impact on the area’s sealife, however, no one seemed to have a picture of the buildup.

Setting Up A Modular Subversion Repository For PHP-Driven Websites | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

by camel
Sharing code between projects is still not a trivial matter with subversion. Especially if you are familiar with SourceSafe, you will find that subversion makes it hard to share code. Subversion seems to be really great in creating a version mess and good in solving one, but the reason I need source code control is to prevent such a mess. This is where subversion can be greatly improved, but it is not impossible. This howto will demonstrate a directory setup that takes the subversion sharing mechanism into account, as well as other issues that repositories bring.

January 2008

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