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Townhouse

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:42:23 +0000

How to write fast code

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:18:36 +0000

“The CPU,” he said, “runs at a certain speed. It can execute a fixed number of instructions per second, and no more. There is a finite limit to how many instructions per second it can execute. Right?”

“Right,” I said.

“So there is no way, really, to make code go faster, because there is no way to make instructions execute faster. There is only such a thing as making the machine do less.”

He paused for emphasis.

“To go fast,” he said slowly, “do less.”

Myths & Misconceptions About Grid Systems

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:06:10 +0000

Myths & Misconceptions About Grid Systems

"Be conservative in what you do; be liberal in what you accept from others."

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:08:00 +0000

“Be conservative in what you do; be liberal in what you accept from others.”

- The robustness principle (re: Beautiful Soup)

Pravda Vodka

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:04:56 +0000

Pravda Vodka

"The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to..."

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:57:52 +0000

“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”

- Socrates (via mnmal)

Coffee table 20

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:08:30 +0000

Coffee table 20

The fictional extreme-minimalist future In the effort to...

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:34:41 +0000

The fictional extreme-minimalist future

In the effort to portray simple, they err on the side of antiseptic.

h.r.s

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:30:00 +0000

h.r.s

Watches by Denis Guidone

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:53:52 +0000

Watches by Denis Guidone

Just one colour Combine my pedantic taste for minimalism...

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:15:13 +0000

Just one colour

Combine my pedantic taste for minimalism with nerdy touchtyping abilities and a cheap can of white spraypaint, and you end up with my keyboard — possibly the most pretentious keyboard in existence.

Intermediate and Advanced Software Carpentry in Python

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:46:06 +0000

Intermediate and Advanced Software Carpentry in Python:

The first step in programming is getting stuff to work at all.

The next step in programming is getting stuff to work regularly.

The step after that is reusing code and designing for reuse.

Somewhere in there you will start writing idiomatic Python.

Jetty

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:39:03 +0100

Jetty

Reasons to use a static site generator instead of Wordpress

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:18:25 +0100

Reasons to use a static site generator instead of Wordpress

Creating Teensy ELF Executables in Linux

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:10:15 +0100

Creating Teensy ELF Executables in Linux:

Half of the values in this file violate some part of the ELF standard, and it’s a wonder than Linux will even consent to sneeze on it, much less give it a process ID. This is not the sort of program to which one would normally be willing to confess authorship.

On the other hand, every single byte in this executable file can be accounted for and justified. How many executables have you created lately that you can say that about?

Target Clock (via Minimalissimo)

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:03:53 +0100

Target Clock (via Minimalissimo)

F.lux

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:38:15 +0100

F.lux:

During the day, computer screens look good—they’re designed to look like the sun. But, at 9PM, 10PM, or 3AM, you probably shouldn’t be looking at the sun.

F.lux fixes this: it makes the color of your computer’s display adapt to the time of day—warm at night, and like sunlight during the day.

(via mnmal)

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:29:32 +0100

(via mnmal)

Norwegian Lines

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:15:54 +0100

Norwegian Lines

Links in Print: The Story of a Beautiful Failure

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:21:21 +0100

Links in Print: The Story of a Beautiful Failure