February 2012
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Intersecting Arbitrary Polygons with Raphaël.js
3D printers suck. Which is to say that if you want to print something on a 3D printer, you’re almost pulling the oil out of the ground yourself, they’re so dumb. So when you want to let someone design a 2D object (a snowflake) in a web browser and then have you print it and send it to them and you find out that All You Need To Do™ is draw in SVG, convert to DWG, extrude it and print...
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January 2012
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Understanding JavaScript OOP — Sorella's Basement →
Best piece I’ve read about it.
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I put in some time last night working on my amplifier project again after I had received all of the remaining ICs and parts I need for the electronics late last year.
One of the decisions I made was to have multiple inputs – a default for an Apple TV (or insert media box) and auxiliary (via minijack and Bluetooth) - and therefore a method of switching between the two. I don’t want to have...
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December 2011
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Homepage
I had been hand-coding everything on my site before and that’s only fun for so long. Now it runs on Stacey: a minimal CMS that gives just the right constructs to make life easier. It lists the projects I’m working on, my mixtapes and photos and is closer to what I really want. And it looks exactly the same.
I’ve also made some changes to Juke, my jQuery plugin for mixtapes. It...
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November 2011
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On Libraries
The librarian isn’t a clerk who happens to work at a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa and a teacher. The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user.
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[Kids] need a librarian more than ever (to figure out creative ways to find and use data). They need a library not at all.
– Seth Godin
What happens to librarians and...
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He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is...
– Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
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October 2011
11 posts
massansf:
massan- “can you get up over a bike?”
huf- “yeah”
massan- “lets do it tomorrow around 1”
huf- “ok”
10/2008