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Bitworking is now served over HTTPS thanks to Let's Encrypt, in particular to the rsc.io/letsencrypt Go library which made it trivial to implement. Next up, Webmention.

Building on The Republican race: Five degrees of climate denial, extended to the full seven stages: Stage 1: Denial Pre 2010 - The climate is not changing. Stage 2: Ignorance 2010 - The climate might be changing, or it might not, we just don't know. Stage 3: GAIA Bashing 2014 - Climate change is real, but it’s natural. Stage 4: We so tiny 2016 - Climate change is real, but humans aren't the primary cause.

What to do when it's late at night and your high schooler says his table wasn't able to complete their physics lab today because they were missing equipment, and the teacher said, maybe half jokingly, that they could complete the lab at home if they didn't finish it in class? That's right, you build experimental equipment in your garage. This is the Interial Balance we built from scratch using two hacksaw blades.

It's March 2016 and that means I've been building and maintaining httplib2 for over 10 years. As with most of my best software, httplib2 was initially a rage-based project, fed by my disgust on the state of HTTP client libraries in 2006. In the past 10 years it's gathered quite a following, with 0.9.2 current being downloaded from PyPI: 37297 downloads in the last day 210596 downloads in the last week 830573 downloads in the last month I'm done.

Update [June 2017]: Scratch that, after moving the blog over to Jekyll I moved over to using MathJax for LaTeX support. And I never did add Julia support, oh well. In the first of two enhancements to piccolo, LaTeX support has been added. Just put the LaTeX in a latex-pic element and it will be converted to a PNG, with the alt text set to the LaTeX code. <latex-picE = mc^2</latex-pic Transforms into:

We do large displays for Halloween, usually involving converting the garage into a haunted house. They're major undertakings, with four or more actors, so we only do them every other year. I also try to roll a "build" into every Halloween. For example, 6 years ago I built this as part of the haunted house: And two years ago the same skeleton got taken out of the jail and laid out on a table, this time animated with pneumatics.

.controls button:hover { background: #eee; } .controls button { padding: 1em; background-color: white; border: solid gray 1px; } A sound effects board with the sounds of a dragon built using the Web Audio API. Because Halloween. Start Snoring Stop Snoring Sniff Roar Chains: [Source] Roar: [Source] Sniff: [Source] Snore: [Source] Code function onload() { var audioCtx = new (window.

Note: This post was updated in Jan 2017 to use the Custom Elements V1 spec. One of the questions that comes up regularly when talking about zero frameworksis how can you expect to stitch together an application without a framework? The short answer is "the same way you stitch together native elements," but I think it's interesting and instructional to look at those ways of stitching elements together individually.

Today Google launched gRPC, a new HTTP/2 and Protocol Buffer based system for building APIs. This is Google's third system for web APIs. The first system was Google Data, which was based on the Atom Publishing Protocol [RFC 5023]. It was an XML protocol over HTTP. The serving system for that grew, but started to hit scalability issues at around 50 APIs. The scaling issues weren't in the realm of serving QPS, but more in the management of that many APIs, such as rolling out new features across all APIs and all clients.

Subtitle if this were an academic paper, which it’s not: A k-means clustering derived point statistic highly correlated with regressions in commit-series data with applications to automatic anomaly detection in large sets of benchmark results. TL;DR: To detect regressions in benchmark data over a series of commits use k-means clustering on mean and variance normed commit-series. For each of the clusters find the best fitting step function to each cluster’s centroid.

Having recently moved to using Git from Mercurial here are my observations: Git just works No matter what I try to do, there's a short and simple git command that does it. Need to copy a single file from one branch to my current branch, need to roll back the last two commits and place their changes into the index, need to push or pull from a local branch to a remote and differently named branch, there are all ways to do those things.

Stop writing Javascript frameworks. Translations: Chinese Japanese Russian Here's the talk, based on this essay, that I gave at OSCON 2015. [Slides] The 100-line templating library presented as a Gist has been cleaned up, documented, and published as the Stamp library. JavaScript frameworks seem like death and taxes; inevitable and unavoidable. I'm sure that if I could be a fly on that wall every time someone started a new web project, the very first question they'd ask is, which JS framework are we using?

So I've been impressed with IPython so far, it can be a little fiddly to install, but given the power I'm not going to complain. I'm now working on graphics and in trying to get up to speed going back and learning, or relearning, some basics. Today was Bézier curves, and thus this IPython notebook. Note that the content there isn't actually educational, you should follow the links provided to really learn about these constructs, I just wanted an excuse to try out LaTeX and plot some interesting graphs.

Due to suspected food poisoning I checked into the local emergency room last night around 2 AM, trusty 13 gallon plastic garbage bag in hand, because, I've been throwing up. Once they get me into a room the nurse offers me a shallow pink plastic pan in exchange for my plastic garbage bag, and I'm thinking to myself, "Really, have you never seen anyone vomit in your entire life?

Reilly has been learning Javascript, and one of the projects he wanted to do was a snow simulation. I guess growing up in the south snow is a rare and wonderous event for him. window.onload = function () { var canvas = document.getElementById('snow'); var ctx = canvas.getContext('2d'); var W = canvas.width; var H = canvas.height; var angle = 0; var mp = 10; var snowLine = []; for (var i = 0; i W) { p.

So while everyone was losing their minds over the addition of the word twerk to the Oxford Dictionaries Online, I'm actually more upset that the Internet of Things was added with the wrong definition, or at least an incomplete definiton. a proposed development of the Internet in which everyday objects have network connectivity, allowing them to send and receive data The first definitions of the Internet of Things I heard was from Bruce Sterling and it went beyond just having network connectivity, it was about lifecycle management, tracking objects from cradle to grave.

One of the important types of open source that doesn't get talked about is what I call Platonic Programs, which are small programs that exhibit the base level of functionality for some domain, but no more, and have small, clear, and consise code. These projects have outsized impacts on the ecosystem and yet aren't talked about that much. For example, look at MicroEmacs, which not only has a string of variants that are all named a variation of "MicroEmacs", but also EmACT, Jasspa emacs, NanoEmacs, mg, and vile.

This NYTime article on The End of Car Culture very mich rings true for me, none of our kids look forward to having a car like we did. It felt like we had to push the oldest one to get his learners permit. Made even odder by the fact that we don't live anywhere near any sort of useful public transportation.

I'm sure this evolves over time, but for today, the best command-line incantation I found for recording screencasts is: $ avconv -strict experimental \ -f x11grab -r 25 -s 1024x768 -i :0.0 \ -pre medium -f alsa -ac 2 -ar 22050 \ -i pulse cast.webm