GUI: Taking Lessons from Hand-Drawn Animation
21st Mar, 2017Chuck Jones inspires UI designers in this classic paper from Ungar and Change.
Early example of Duck Typing in 1991's SELF
21st Mar, 2017In 1991 Ungar and Smith wrote about the experimental programming language SELF, and in it described duck typing, callng it behaviorism
One-liner to analyze Python programs
10th Aug, 2016The great benefit of knowing the command-line is being able to write scripts to analyze scripts, all in ~1 minute.
One Parent CSS
2nd Aug, 2016How I write CSS.
HTML5 Semantic Markup is for HTML, not CSS
27th Jul, 2016I hand crafted the CSS for site. It's still a work in progress. I learned that while semantic tags are good for HTML, they're not that great for CSS.
Catches for traditional programmers when learning Python
26th Jul, 2016After a lifetime of programming and compsci education, I've had some issues learning with Python. It screws me up in small ways. It's a wonderful language, but dear god I wish these things were different.