Book Review: Making an Elephant

This book on his life and writing is good, though not as good as other books I've read like this. I enjoyed the personal passages about his life, more than the thoughts on his craft. The chapter written on his father's death stands out as a moving essay. [...]

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Simple Rules for De-Fatting Myself

I've got to lose weight. Working from home and the sweeties that line the red bar in the kitchen 6 feet from my desk are killing me. I can't do diets. So here are my simple principals for de-fatting myself that I plan to stick to for the next 3 months to see if it makes a difference.

 

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Websites Don't Release Anything

A couple weeks ago I was in London for a Launchpad team leads sprint. There were lots of cool discussions, focused mostly on processes within Launchpad. Because of all this process talk, we ended up talking about our release process a fair amount. I had some ideas forming before this, but a week's worth of discussion helped cement my thinking about "releases" for websites. Now some two weeks later, I'm still thinking about this, so here's a quick sketch of what's on my mind.

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Life Through the Lens of a Machine

Last night I watched Surrogates, which was a fun movie. (Yes, I have kids and watch every movie later than the rest of the movie-going world.) I've also been watching Caprica. Then there's this little film called Avatar, which it seems the entire world has seen. As I finished watching Surrogates last night, I was struck by how much I'm seeing similar themes in sci-fi films and tv shows lately. These stories deal with people living their lives virtually through some intermediary -- an avatar in a virtual world, a robot, or a life-like robotic avatar, and so on. I suspect this will become even more common as time passes.

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Book review -- JavaScript: The Good Parts

Anyone doing a lot of JavaScript development would benefit from reading this book. [...]

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