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Deep is the well of past and homelessness is a state of mind. And what if there is no tomorrow.
Speak to me. But the only thing you can’t do is to ignore me.
Who’s the Scientist? made me thought of Eve Ensler. Seriously, it’s delightful.
I should use a new catch-all title for this kind of stuff. So, here’s code news, and you should follow me on GitHub1.
If you have an Illustrator-based web design workflow, try pictorial which automatically monitors a directory of choice, and runs exported .PNGs (it’s regex-based, so maybe other PNGs or any PNG whose name matches a particular pattern) thru PNGCrush2, and shows a Growl notification after every iteration. I do this manually 100+ times a day, and not having to do it manually anymore certainly helps.
If you trace many Git forks locally, or if you do git clone a lot, clone can help by cloning to the “right” directory named with both the user’s screenname and the project name.
@cloudhead went to the future, found CSS 4 and gave us LESS. To write LESS efficiently you need syntax coloring. My fork of LESS Syntax Mode provides many fixes. Have a look into it if you use Coda or SubEthaEdit.
Because “follow me on Twitter” is kind of cliché and talk is cheap. However, I do keep a for-links account. ↩
I will not go into details nor tread too deep here, but this is intended for device-color-dependent UI snippets only. Since web browsers took flight before most of the hackers were aware of color management (figuratively speaking) our web looks very snobby and uncalibrated. sRGB, a lazybones standard which assumes standards by assuming nothing, is the color standard of the modern web. ↩
Life certainly is buggier than software. Software is idealism manifest in the highest order (or perhaps aureas mediocritas, the golden mean, which is not necessarily perfect, but perfectly good enough) and there’s certainly a saying (from Kay) that true software fanatics will reach out and commission or work on their own hardware. Material beings are tools, or pipelines, that are used to showcase the spirit (software). And industrial design is dead without the perceived spirit in the form factor, which certainly translates to what the software is.
But life is buggy. Any piece of software may be buggy, but its inherent malleability ominates it from any accusation; we forgive as usual and it’s never harder to ask for forgivance than it is to ask for permission. Maybe that is because we can always press RESET, or do a procedure that rejuvenates the software back to its ideal, pristine state.
The ability to start itself over in a perceptible way 1 makes software bugs tolerable, and it is the very same lack of this ability which makes real-life bugs intolerable. Reincarnation may wrap it up in a truly encapsulated, self-documentary, self-explanary, recursively complete way, but this concept will not go very far before we learn to love what we are, as-is.
Every wake in a foreign body is a torture, no different from another. If life is a game, I’m needing some cheats. Or maybe a typecast, and call it a day.
Perceptibility is the key here. Suicide (destroying the body) is often not a good solution because the spirit is constrained to equate the body, and is therefore temporarily unable to see beyond the body ipse. ↩