Blog: 2008
These are the 177 blog posts for 2008. Older is 2007. Newer is 2009. There is also a complete archive.
December 2008
Structure Synth and Sunflow #art #graphics #math
PyCon double-talk #gatherings #pycon
Accidental HTML entities in URLs #web
Genetic image evolution #algorithms #art
Internet explorer mystery #1376 #javascript #web
November 2008
Things I don’t like about doctest #python #testing
They want Sandy #business #hp #online #twitter #web
Print this file, your printer will jam #debugging #history #postscript #printing
My oldest code still running #hp #history #postscript #printing
Judge orders five detainees released #law #politics
Quick links: Gromit, splitter, typealyzer #animation #games #language #quick-links
Pathological backtracking #python #regex
Victoria Marcus Olds, 1911–2008 #friends-&-family #obituaries
Presentation tools #presentations #tools
Tabblo at the Cambridge Django meetup #django #gatherings #tabblo
Us on abcnews.com #autism #friends-&-family #special-olympics
Stackoverflow social dynamics #development #online
October 2008
The first servers #history #math
Tabblo is hiring: web front-end developer #hp #tabblo
Animated sorting algorithms #algorithms
Python mystery #6237: solved #python
3 down, 47 to go #politics #society
Python registry grepper #python #windows
Switching Python versions on windows #python #windows
September 2008
A server memory leak #debugging #django
Evil apple #business #mac #phones
Competition inside corporations? #business #hp
Self-diagnosing software #coding
Reductio ad absurdum #language
OpenID is too hard #security #web
Google chrome #browsers #google
August 2008
Anatomy of a Subway Hack #boston #security
Bridges 2008 #art #gatherings #math
Stephen Fry and the Gutenberg Press #history #typography
July 2008
Date Difference and different dates #friends-&-family #tools
Econtalk #audio #business #politics
On the counter-intuitiveness of speed #coding
Encouragement from unlikely places #movies
Gas station tv #ads #business #cars
Dealing with parking pigs #cars
WALL-E #animation #movies #reviews
June 2008
Spore creature creator and steganography #graphics #security #video-games
Subversion’s biggest hole #source-control
Reporting server reliability #funny #geeky
Biology factoid of the day #me #science
Bad web typography: full justify #typography #web
Pylint #linters #python #tools
One of the worst decisions in history #law #war
Classic photos in Lego #lego #photos
How hot was it? #boston #printing
Fake web addresses #movies #networks #reviews
Photoshop blend mode math #graphics #math
280slides #javascript #presentations #programming-languages #tools
Dealing with experts #experts #spotted
Michigan and Florida flap #politics
May 2008
I hate browser-scaled images #web
Rex Parker does the NYT crossword puzzle #blogs #obsession #puzzles
Ratatouille and Pixar technology #animation #graphics #movies
Cog 2.1 and newline detection #cog #python
Bad web type: georgia’s numerals #typography #web
How to apply patches #how-to #unix
Max: stop-motion for French, and Apple Boston #animation #boston #friends-&-family #mac #society
Water + laptop = ok #hardware #me
Boy vs. girl #language #society
So that happened... (digg, slashdot, and webfaction) #site
TV and social surplus #society
April 2008
Homer and Bush in CSS #art #css
Non-transitive dice #games #math
Separating sentences #django #language #python #regex #site
Watchdog.net and EveryBlock #online #politics
Pixar and Disney line-up through 2012 #animation #movies
Fractal cookies #food #math #video-games
Wicked hack: Python bytecode tracing #coverage #python
Big dog robot and big dog beta #funny #robots
The structure of .pyc files #python
Aptus 1.55 and wx buffered drawing #help #my-code
Technology startup process #business #funny
March 2008
Evolutionary ladder #coding #python
Reddit’ers at the back of the class #online
My birth announcement #design #friends-&-family #me
Python code complexity micro-tool #python #tools
Consistent hashing #algorithms
PyCon 2008 notes #gatherings #pycon
The script kiddies that couldn’t shoot straight #malware #php
Space shuttle launch preparation #site #space
You suck at photoshop #graphics #online
Screencasting made... difficult #ads #google
This bothers me: Saudi Arabia #politics
February 2008
Sidney Diane Hussein #politics
Python solvers #algorithms #python
Paul is or is not dead #music #obsession
HistoryShots #art #blogs #history
Apache proxy auto-re-loader #web
Jenn: visualizing polytopes #math
What I wish congress understood #politics
Enumerating trees #math #python
The googles of the past #books #boston
The evolution of tech companies’ logos #design
Jimiyo fine art sprites #art #video-games
Help: Building PIL on Windows (.a ⇒ .dll)? #help #windows
January 2008
Darth Nedibat #me #photos #star-wars
Truly transparent text with PIL #graphics #how-to #python
How to make people feel stupid #communication #how-to #people
Chandler and Python: don’t blame the tools #osaf #python
Django people #django #maps #online
Cross-site printing? #malware #printing #security
Terry Gross and paying customers #audio #business
Permalinks, Gravatars and Django #django #site
YouTubed Bob debut [u] oy! #funny #music
Rsync on Windows disk to disk? #help #windows
Bob Staake: Photoshop 3.0 #art #graphics #tools
How badly can they not get it? #business