October 2008
“One of the builders (at least I assume this is the case) with a peculiarly...”
– Headlessness: Brixton’s own Shishi Odishi
September 2008
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IndexOptions HTMLTable
Quixotically, I continue to apply my husk.org style to the things nobody looks at, rather than the things everyone does. The latest victim is the neglected husk.org/code, which now sports a fancy look, courtesy of a little HTML and the following in a .htaccess file:
IndexOptions SuppressHTMLPreamble
IndexOptions HTMLTable
IndexOptions SuppressDescription
IndexOptions NameWidth=*
HeaderName...
Watchm3 moiré façade model at cityofsound/blog.
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JavaScript Engines and the IE Hegemony
Another day, another JavaScript performance increase. This time, it’s the WebKit team, with the somewhat ludicrously named SquirrelFish Extreme, which manages a tenfold speed increase on Safari 3’s JSKit engine, apparently.
Oddly, it seems as if most of the work involved has been done under the auspices of the Summer of Code, Google’s programme to get college students involved...
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Vocal Grumblr
Tumblr has a nice API (for reading anyway) that lets you get posts as JSON. Unfortunately, you can’t filter by tag, and per-tag pages don’t have RSS or Atom feeds of their own.
Vox has a nasty heavy Atom API for reading which doesn’t seem to do JSON, but it does filter by tag, and per-tag pages have feeds of their own.
Sigh.
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Android at Google Developer Day London
As part of the keynote of Google’s Developer Day in London, Mike Jennings ran a demo of Android on prototype hardware. (In fact, it may have been the first public demo of such in Europe.) Some notes:
It works, and not slowly.
The name of the device manufacturer was covered in tape.
The browser seemed to load + render Slashdot on a private wifi network about as quickly as my iPod touch on...
