Following his hilarious Ten Ways to Wreck Your Database, Josh Berkus outlines ten ways to destroy your open-source community. When I started at BitTorrent back in 2005, it had long been guilty of 3, 4, 5, 8, 9 and 10, and it never recovered.
After years of work and months of polishing, I’m happy to announce that five of my fonts are now available for purchase at MyFonts.com! Between now and March 10th, you can get any of these fonts for 30% by entering the promotion / gift certificate code BLOGMAR10 at checkout.
If anyone has any problems whatsoever ordering these fonts or getting the promotional discount, email me.
Rant about strings in Ruby 1.9:
What other language requires you to understand this level of complexity just to work with strings?!
The authors of Typewar have posted this dendrogram of typeface similarity, based on statistics from the game:
The big stumper is that Optima is apparently one of the more difficult to distinguish faces.
(via brainsik.)
I gotta get me a copy of this “Tracer T” program:
I’ve heard you can also use a program called “Pin G” to view people’s PIN numbers.
(note: if you’re not a hacker this will make zero sense to you, but trust me, it’s hilarious.)
What technological/scientific advances/discoveries are you most looking forward to in the next 25 years?
A few years ago I read John Maddox’s What Remains to Be Discovered: Mapping the Secrets of the Universe, the Origins of Life, and the Future of the Human Race
Check out this series of animated reconstructions of M. C. Escher’s Print Gallery. Move over, Hasselhoffian recursion.
Looks like my Interface design guidelines are required reading for a course in user interface design at the University of Baltimore.
