Happy 2024, folks! Just when we thought we’d seen it all, an npm user named PatrickJS, aka gdi2290, threw us a curveball. He (along with a group of contributors) kicked off the year with a bang, launching a troll campaign … Read more
JP’s Website 2023-08-28 Floppy disk drives are curious things. We know them as the slots that ingest those small almost-square plastic “floppy disks” and we only really see them now in Computer Museums. But there’s a lot going on in … Read more
2019-10-14 This is my advice to anyone writing something for the public — especially a talk on stage. People listen to a talk, or read an article, because they want to learn something new. They want a little “oh wow” … Read more
June 24, 2023 26 minutes It’s been over 4 years since my last post on cursed CMake operations, and quite a lot has changed in that time making some or most of the workarounds and hacks I showed off completely … Read more
What is a Media Query? Media queries are a CSS language feature which allow an author to conditionally apply CSS rules according to characteristics of the device or window in which an application is being viewed. Most commonly, these might … Read more
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Once upon a time, music publishing was a profoundly unsexy profession, the IRS of the industry. When a sample or interpolation needed clearing, some ink-stained wretch from one of the major publishers would amble out to furnish the papers and … Read more
There is no finish line. There is no winning, no losing. Everything is a Practice. A practice is the disciplined repetition of what you know with enough experimentation in that repetition to unlock those things you don’t yet know. It … Read more
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Visiting dry storage casks at Sizewell B in Suffolk, UK For most of my life, I have been terrified of nuclear waste. I believed it was a green, gloopy, corrosive liquid as depicted in The Simpsons. I thought it was … Read more