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Pamela Fox of the Google Maps API team recently released a driving directions game based on the Google Maps Driving Directions API. It’s neat, but, especially in areas with which I’m intimately familiar, the routes I choose are far better (more direct, faster) than what Google chooses. It would be pretty awesome if they built [...]

Recently, Jason Kottke wrote about how Facebook is “a step sideways or even backwards (towards an AOL-style service) for the web”. Essentially, he argues that because nearly all data on Facebook is in their “walled garden”, inaccessible by Google and other non-members on the open web, the service is ultimately doomed. [...]

WATS GOOD ITS THE WEEKEND AND YOUR LOOKING 4 SUMTHING TO DO COME CHECKOUT THE HOTTEST R&B SINGER FROM ARKANSAS AND IF YOU LIKE WAT YOU HEAR ADD ME “Lil Robb” You know it when you see it. It used to be called “AOL speak” or “chat lingo” and now it’s recognized mostly from “the [...]

I do a lot of developing for the web, which makes sense seeing as though I’m a web developer. If I were developing with my ideal set of tools, the following things would be in that set: Serving FreeBSD 6 or Mac OS X Server lighttpd — serving static files and running a reverse proxy [...]

A Mac software company, Panic, just released their newest product: Coda. I am thoroughly impressed by the extreme attention to detail and quality paid by those developers on both the website and the product itself — it’s nothing short of a work of art. That said, I don’t think I’d use Coda myself because I [...]

I’ve joined the HTML Working Group at the W3C as an Invited Expert. I contributed to the WHAT WG and its Web Applications 1.0 (AKA “HTML 5”) spec, so hopefully I’ll be able to help out with the W3C’s renewed effort to update the HTML spec. Going in, my fears lie mostly in bureaucracy or [...]

I’ve set up my site feed to redirect to FeedBurner, so excuse any feed wonkiness if you please. We’ll see if it’s worth it. That didn’t last long. FeedBurner apparently forgot how to get updates from my site, so fell apart. I wasn’t too hopeful anyway — I like to keep things in house and [...]

…if you call yourself a “web developer” you have absolutely no excuse for not knowing JavaScript. And if you don’t know JavaScript, you have absolutely no right to call yourself a “web developer”. [sic]James Bennett I came across a post from James Bennett written last year that is absolutely brilliant. His points are right on [...]

What is your online banking password? I have 10 to 1 odds that say it sucks. You should probably do something about that. If you like money, that is.

Alex King wrote a couple of posts [1, 2] on using password hashing software to abstract your passwords out of your head, ostensibly increasing the level of security involved with the web sites you entrust your information to.

I spent this afternoon implementing a new abstract overview of this site’s contents at the root. It’s an effort to break away from the essentially time-only perspective previously forced on the reader and instead to provide different perspectives for exploring content from all different times. It may be worth noting that I haven’t tested it [...]