Maximum Happy Imagination | Magical Nihilism This has sort of crystallised something for me. From where we currently stand, we can just about see a "maximum happy imagination" future ahead of us – not a challenge free future, not by any means, but one where basic material needs can be catered for, for everyone, for free – and yet it seems we keep electing people who are ideologically set against taking the steps that would be required to achieve this. It's almost like pre-emptive future shock.
There’s no konami code for operations – blog dot lusis I think I may just fire this at my boss, then next time he asks why a given bit of work is going to take the time it does. Because this is at once the most technobabble filled bit of writing I've read in a while, and yet serves as a reasonable summary of how complex development has gotten over the last decade or so. "Can you understand this blogpost? No? Then you're not qualified to understand the time estimates you're asking for."
All Our Patent Are Belong To You | Blog | Tesla Motors Tesla have open-sourced their patents, in a bid to get the car industry to play catch-up. Their language is a bit fuzzy, but assuming they're for real, this is brilliant news.
pickadate.js Starting to use this at work, as an alternative to the stuff that requires jQuery UI (as too heavy), just want to have a permanent reference to find the docs. Move along nothing to see here.