A “Smart Disorganized” Tech Blog
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Tags in RSS?
A quick question. What’s the right way to add “tag” information to an RSS feed? (So that a story can have a number of tags associated with it? Eg. my last story here was tagged “wiki”, “bill seitz” etc.) Looking at the spec there’s a “category” sub-element. Is it this? Does each category need to…
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Bill Seitz : Wiki Graph
Over on my main blog you may have seen that I’m musing about my online presence again. Increasingly fed up with Facebook I’ve now taken the plunge to remove myself entirely. (I haven’t, as of writing, deleted my account only because I need to extract some more writings before I do.) I’m also increasingly concerned…
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Java Hater
Someone on Quora asked me to answer a question on my personal history of using Java. It became a kind of autobiographical confession. I’ve never had a good relationship with Java. My first OO experience was with Smalltalk. And that spoiled me for the whole C++ / Java family of strongly typed, compiled OO languages. …
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What's Like RSS?
Dave Winer asked a great question back in December. What standards are like (his ideal for) RSS? That is, basically fixed forever by convention, large userbase and multiple suppliers? My suggestions : In practice, a few Unix classics : SSH, the diff / patch formats, rsync, finger. All used on a grand scale by many…
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Winer's Back!
This is really good news. Dave Winer finally comes out with a decent outliner in the browser. I’ve been looking for one for a long time. (Thought of trying to write it too, but it’s not my speciality. Now you get one from the world’s biggest Outlining evangelist.) This is also great news for Winer…
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Bret Victor Showreel
Bret Victor is one of the few programmers for whom it makes sense to release a showreel.
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Elm Lang
I must confess, I’m very intrigued by Elm-Lang. For me there are four virtues : 1) FRP. All the attempts I’ve seen to graft FRP onto existing languages have looked clunky to me – ahem … Trellis? – Requiring the explicit definition of special types of fields. This is the kind of thing that I think needs…
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Mind Traffic Control
If you haven’t looked at Mind Traffic Control recently (and I know YOU haven’t, because I see the logs), then you may be surprised. Just saying … 🙂
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Personal Question
Question : Hey Phil, do you actually do any programming these days? Answer : Yes. Quite a lot at the moment. Though it’s a bit all over the shop. I’m dipping a toe into Android programming. (And, hmmm … Java …. I thought I’d got over my Java hangups by doing a lot of Processing,…
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