John Gruber outlines his wishes for Twitter’s new longer tweet format:
This sounds like what I’ve been hoping they’d do: treat longer-than-140-character posts as an attachment type, like quoted tweets, images, etc.
An idea for a service I’ve been idly considering for some time: Capture part of a page, and if requested with an Accept header that prefers images over HTML, show the text as an image.
Sort of like a mix of Mozilla’s PageShot (but instead do it for excerpts) and OneShot and similar apps for text-fragments-as-screenshots.
This would be ideal for Twitter clients, although I’m not sure whether (any) Twitter clients actually explicitly prefer images over HTML. Considering how most of them embed images inline, I think they should, though.
This is so useful. I had no idea Firefox even had an additional command line, but I can see immediate use of this, and --fullpage is near-impossible to do without this tool.
Imagine each side of the balance sheet contained only one number. Would the process have value? No. Imagine that each side had a thousand numbers but they were entered in exactly the same order, and were added on exactly the same row as their counterpart on the other side. Would you ever need to total the numbers? No. You wouldn’t even need two sheets. You would spot any problems as you entered the details.
Now imagine the real world example that there are thousands of numbers being added to each side of the balance sheet in completely random orders at different times. Varying numbers of out-going items for each incoming item. Now do you want the practice? Of course you do.
What’s the difference? It’s the scope of the work required to consolidate everything.
I can’t claim to be a stringent practitioner of TDD, but having a good test suite improves confidence in the software. The balance to strike, and I’m still not sure I do that consistently, is making tests that are neither too close to the actual code nor so far removed that they test the whole system.
Kommunistisk Parti redegør her for hvorfor vi bør stemme nej ved den kommende folkeafstemning.
Hvis man ikke er fan af et føderalt EU er der dybest set ingen grund til at stemme ja.
Apple, Caterpillar, Chevron, Coach, Flour, Gap, Pantry, Staples, Target, Visa.
Context: The Message posted a list of start-up companies whose names are existing English words.
A very interesting-looking service, offering seamless file format conversion.
As with anything that handles my uploaded files, I’m wary of the privacy, but their policy looks very sensible too.
Via Jeremy Keith.
[W]e can’t ignore the composition of the Consortium’s members, directors, and officers, the people who define the everyday writing systems of all languages across the globe. They are comprised largely of white men (and a few white women) whose first language was either English or another European language.
It is easy to think of Unicode, with its stated mission of enabling “people around the world to use computers in any language”, as world-orienting, but its makeup of mostly U.S. companies gives it an inherent bias that goes against its mission.
One thing I did take note with, however:
Even though many of the letters look similar to Latin characters used in English, nobody would try to use them interchangeably. ҭЋаt ωoulδ βε σutragєѳuѕ.
Aditya has clearly never been on Twitter.
Unfortunately Instapaper only has one like button. This needs more.
Frank Chimero is emerging as one of the prime philosophers of the Web.
