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.
a much more accessible source for building records than the ny dept. of building
pivotal books available as pdfs including the original macintosh HIG and the smalltalk-80 book
pypy may be the new lisp visualization project
douglas gordon's zidane movie
“The way SICP looks at things, a procedure is a dead thing, a list of instructions for the computer to execute. A process is the magic that happens when a procedure is run. A procedure "evolves" a process...”
funny how dated his non-politicized view of 9/11 is, but his thoughts on what design can accomplish ring true
orson welles talking about the trial. such an incredible movie...
extra points for inventing an awesome word in titling one's paper
beautiful, type geeky, and honestly kind of moving
discovering hidden messages/images in the notes of 8bit audio
things i will no longer have to reimplement for every project
the guy who draws the menacing stick figure children
the best thing to happen to games `journalism' since that word started being misapplied
repeating patterns from floating point error (try the 1 color option, much better)
kind of not a fan of this, but i need to cite it