Category Archives: Web Wandering & Opinion

For the longest time, I wasn’t entirely sure why the XDG base directory specification split non-cache data into config and data. I knew there must be a difference which made it a useful thing to do, but I just couldn’t … Continue reading →

Well, I was wandering around YouTube (no clue why) when I found evidence that the Scribblenauts developers may be /b/-tards. At the very least, they’re pretty good at catching all the noteworthy memes. Here are just some of the noteworthy … Continue reading →

A few months ago, my mother sent me an interesting TED talk about motivation. It turns out that the carrot-and/or-stick model for encouraging rewards stifles creativity. We need more businesses like Atlassian and Google which employ “intrinsic motivation” (you do … Continue reading →

Just thought I’d look up how people paginate efficiently in SQLite since, apparently, OFFSET is just an alias for “discard N first results”. The recommended solution is to use a WHERE clause to mimic offset using the same column index … Continue reading →

Well, I finally got an invite to Google Wave. I haven’t had much time to play around with it yet, but my first impression is that it could potentially be just the thing I need for collaborative story planning… once … Continue reading →

Introducing the Carnival of Elitist Bastards @ Café Philos Probably best to read the link above, since I definitely don’t have time to write something anywhere near as good, but in short, it’s an introduction to Dana Hunter’s Carnival of … Continue reading →