Simply Jonathan

Archive for 2007

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : E-mail is not a platform for design 

Yeah.

programming.reddit.com logo

I like reddit programming. In fact, I visit it all the time, and I’m starting to rate the entries more heavily. However, I’ve found one tiny bit of stupidity (and thought through stupidity — this takes more, than its more clever alternative): the logo has two links in it, one to programming.reddit.com and one to reddit.com.

I understand why you’d want a link to the main page, but does it have to be in the one place, where one would expect it to lead to the programming front? And seriously, use an image map, to reach stupidity? That’s just… stupid.

Exploring: reCAPTCHA: A new way to fight spam 

Wow. Just like that.

defmacro – The Nature of Lisp 

Notes on English writing, and what most people are bad at

  • Writing the genitive form of it as “it’s”. It’s also common to see it the other way around, writing the contraction of “it is” as “its”
  • Finding the right use for there, their, and they’re
  • On a more general basis, the past sense of to be seems to be written as were even though it’s rarely plural or first person singular
  • You’re vs. your. Actually, this seems to be rather general for these contractions
  • Adding a genitive ‘s to words that end in -s.

I might write more of these later on, when I stumble upon them.

Quotes about Computer Languages 

Ironic Sans: Idea: Uncensor the Internet with Greasemonkey 

Wonderful.

Digital Web Magazine – Seven JavaScript Techniques You Should Be Using Today 

Bazaar Version Control | Muffin Research Labs by Stuart Colville 

zone.effbot.org ::: www.effbot.org 

Python bits en masse

This is Simply Jonathan, a blog written by Jonathan Holst. It's mostly about technical topics (and mainly the Web at that), but an occasional post on clothing, sports, and general personal life topics can be found.

Jonathan Holst is a programmer, language enthusiast, sports fan, and appreciator of good design, living in Copenhagen, Denmark, Europe. He is also someone pretentious enough to call himself the 'author' of a blog. And talk about himself in the third person.