February 2012
48 posts
“I left in love, in laughter, and in truth and wherever truth, love and laughter...”
– Bill Hicks (One of my heroes, who passed away 18 years ago today)
Rewatching season one of Friday Night Lights. Falling in love with Tammy Taylor again.
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That’s a cool dragon and all, but it ain’t got shit on the LLVM Dragon
Da Chip - "The Music of Daft Punk Revisited on... →
If you’re into chiptune music, this is awesome.
If the moon was made of spare ribs, would you eat... →
I deployed a great question at our Q&A today, and I was surprised so many of my coworkers had never seen this great sketch.
“If this meeting doesn’t end soon, I’m just gonna keep drinking!”
– Buzz
Coding tricks of game developers →
Don’t know how many remember Force 21, but it was an early 3D RTS which used a follow cam to observe your current platoon. Towards the end of the project we had a strange bug where the camera would stop following the platoon — it would just stay where it was while your platoon moved on and nothing would budge it. The apparent cause was random because we couldn’t find a decent...
“These are the boys who suck up to the boss’s boss. They’re backslappers. These...”
– Some Advice for Young People | The Awl
I could have written this very article, and if I had, it would have been subtitled “Why I Left San Francisco.” The place is practically founded on an unwillingness to call bullshit.
(via buzz)
This is brilliant.
“Bacon is like the gamification of meat.”
– Buzz
“If what’s always distinguished bad writing— flat characters, a narrative world...”
– David Foster Wallace (via kadrey)
Love it.
(via harkaway)
Penguins’ Brooks Orpik launches Daniel Paille with... →
Holy shit, what a hit.
via @importantshock
January 2012
42 posts
“Path is pretty in the same designy way as our modern museums…These museums are...”
– Sexpigeon
This is the best thing I’ve read about Path, and it perfectly articulates something I’ve thought not only about Path, but also a lot of other exemplars of the fussy, post-Apple wave of “high design” in tech products. Khoi Vinh has written about the same phenomenon, arguing that the...