Is Reuters running movie tie-ins as articles now? Proof from military personnel that UFOs have tampered with nuclear weapons depots. Press conference this Monday, September 27. Will it happen? A welcome change, but it’s unlikely an honest discussion of unexplained activity will result. The incidents will probably be explained away as atmospheric phenomena, ball lightning … Read more

Having recently been promoted to “software architect”, I have slowly been discovering what that role entails. I started assuming a hands-off role with implementation details, only defining the larger picture and the interactions between components. I’m quickly shifting that to a focus as a support and special ops role, clearing the way to a final … Read more

Dave Rupert has a great JQuery plugin which can style individual letters, words, and kerning. Fantastic work!

It’s only been very recently where I’ve been able to say that I like beer. Strangely, I didn’t touch the stuff all through university and even years afterwards. While I mostly stick to IPAs, stouts, porters and Belgian ales, I’ll be consulting this chart of beer families for further inspiration.

I feel like there’s much functionality in Vim that I don’t leverage to speed up editing. To that end, I’m emulating Jeet Sukumaran’s disabling of the arrow keys to force a more efficient use of Vim’s other movement keys. It’s too bad my work doesn’t involve as much coding as it used to, or else … Read more