Corduroy is a Python library for using CouchDB with Tornado.
i have no idea why i made this…
coordinate transforms will always be a trial and error affair i'm afraid
13 months and 11k lines of code later, i’ve finished up the choose your own adventure project. all told i ended up cataloging a dozen books from the early-to-mid 80s, looking for patterns in their construction and in the paths made by different readers through them.
these short, simple books had a surprisingly complicated structure with their interlocking pages & choices. as a kid the idea of writing one and keeping all those pages straight boggled my mind. what was lost on me at the time was that even a list of hundreds of page numbers can be comprehensible if it’s redrawn as a diagram. these days i feel like i approach everything that way.
so here is my look back at an obsession from my past, using graphical obsessions of the present to guide the way.
i kind of can't get over the idea of fallows hacking out a script in basic to do his taxes...
everything. (almost literally now since you daren't even think about using lua post-3.3.1)
it's hard not to fall into hero worship mode when it comes to this guy...
surreal. i suspect lynch's involvement.
the land was originally set up as a medicinal plant nursery
maybe it's time to ditch js for map/reduce. makes me wonder if a coffeescript view server would be worth it...
a classic from the day it was published
“…can be traced to the ancient Scandinavian religious practice of placing a tree on the top of a new building to appease the tree-dwelling spirits of their ancestors that had been displaced.”
pdf scans of all the manuals. no vrml of the feelies, but surely that's coming.
1970s rutt-etra scan processor art. i especially love the muybridge-ish walking pattens at 7.05
incredibly trippy just-pre-hayes code betty boop cartoon. the musical sequence with cab calloway halfway through is lysergic greatness.
the story of the ap's origin as a telegraph cartel is fascinating and disturbing. i really need to reread lessig's first book. the price of distributed freedom is eternal vigilance...
it's funny that i've experienced this story in all the media forms it's taken except for the original...
probably the least nutty rk4 code i've seen