A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Although it has some quirks such as some missing links, the new Facebook design works for me. One of the things I quite dig is the new homepage, showing me what’s going on in my friends circle. However, there’s a problem with that live-lifestream … some of the info contained (mainly those darn quizzes) is …
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Good description of the evolution of one’s programming knowledge. Stage 3 sounds really familiar and – imo – defines a promising programmer who has a keen interest: Stage 3: Conscious competence The other day he wrote 30 or 40 lines of code for a personal project of his. He can’t help but feel a little …
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Two years ago I wrote about Fitts’ Law vs. iTunes/Safari describing the lack of the upperleft and upperright pixels in the Windows distribution of Safari. The lack of those two pixels resulted in some really odd behavior (the upper right corner for example didn’t trigger the close button, as you clicked *through it*, hitting the …
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