November 2014

lmorchard starred cbucher/console

Favorite: NAVE Arcade Real Time Gameplay, by videogamo NAVE Arcade Partida en Tiempo Real

lmorchard starred szwacz/sputnik

Our implementation of SQL is based off of SQLite which is compiled down to asm.js by Emscripten packaged into sqljs.

Our implementation of SQL is based off of SQLite which is compiled down to asm.js by Emscripten packaged into sqljs.

Popular social computing began in the late‐1970s with the emergence of dial‐up bulletin‐board systems (BBS). For nearly two decades before the privatization of the state‐sponsored internet, tens of thousands of dial‐up computer networks were run out of the homes and offices of hobbyists, volunteers, and entrepreneurs throughout North America. It was on these bulletin‐board systems that personal computer owners first began to use their machines for popular communication. The history of BBSing portrays amateurs, hobbyists, and enthusiasts as key agents in the development and diffusion of social computing. Indeed, the users and administrators of early BBSes were the first to confront the fundamental challenges of living and working in online communities. Their experiences and experiments with anonymity, identity, privacy, sexuality, and trust established norms and values that were reproduced in the commercial services and social media systems to follow. Restoring the popular memory of the BBS movement confers legitimacy on amateur users to speak with authority about the present and future of internet technology and policy.

lmorchard starred alunny/confetti

lmorchard starred nicola/node-fxos

$ sudo apt-get install libcap2-bin $ sudo setcap cap_net_bind_service=+ep /usr/bin/node $ node foo.js

setcap 'cap_net_bind_service=+ep' /path/to/program

There are many open source BBS resources out there for Linux, but I came up short in finding anything even remotely mentioning renegade and Linux in the same sentence. This left me feeling nostalgically challenged so I set out to find a way to run a telnet multi-node Renegade BBS from my Ubuntu system. In this instructable, I will show you how I achieved this and hopefully inspire some much needed creative improvements as well.

There are many open source BBS resources out there for Linux, but I came up short in finding anything even remotely mentioning renegade and Linux in the same sentence. This left me feeling nostalgically challenged so I set out to find a way to run a telnet multi-node Renegade BBS from my Ubuntu system. In this instructable, I will show you how I achieved this and hopefully inspire some much needed creative improvements as well.

Favorite: Topeka - Safeway Song, by maxvonmayerling 'A' side of the first single by the band Topeka. Video directed by Luis Obispo.

Dropbox Sync is a Heroku beta feature that lets you deploy the contents of Dropbox folders to Heroku apps after linking your Dropbox and Heroku accounts.

CosmosEx is a device for Atari ST computers which replaces multiple peripherals in single box. Your Atari peripheral cosmos is now expanding!

So you have a MS-DOS installed to a virtual machine on your super new multicore computer and it consumes 100% of your CPU (well… 100% of one core actually…)?

So you have a MS-DOS installed to a virtual machine on your super new multicore computer and it consumes 100% of your CPU (well… 100% of one core actually…)?

Use this qemu option: -usbdevice tablet

These are the image files to recreate floppies with Dos 6.22 This is the last DOS version and was also the base for Windows 95

While DOSBox is a great piece of kit, sometimes you may have more speciailised DOS needs that require the use of a VM. In my case, I use QEMU and so far things are working great.

While DOSBox is a great piece of kit, sometimes you may have more speciailised DOS needs that require the use of a VM. In my case, I use QEMU and so far things are working great.

lmorchard starred rickparrish/HtmlTerm

Lots of the “apps are killing the web” meme going around these days, with the latest batch of casket sealant come from no greater validator of commonly agreed upon wisdom than the Wall St. Journal. via Pocket

I love this commercial so so much

That mythology, in turn, has spurred a reactionary, perpetual spasm from people who are horrified by what they hear. You'll have a figure say, "The computers will take over the Earth, but that's a good thing, because people had their chance and now we should give it to the machines. via Pocket

The movement being what it is, there is not necessarily a canonical, single set of principles, but here’s something close, and it sums the idea up pretty well: "Your content is yours. When you post something on the web, it should belong to you, not a corporation. via Pocket

The movement being what it is, there is not necessarily a canonical, single set of principles, but here’s something close, and it sums the idea up pretty well: "Your content is yours. When you post something on the web, it should belong to you, not a corporation. via Pocket

How do we get players to play together in a manner that fits their schedules? This is a key logistical challenge a designer faces when building multiplayer games. The promise We are seeing a blossoming of innovative multiplayer systems. via Pocket

This post will focus on how to get started writing the Firefox OS platform and plugins.

This post will focus on how to get started writing the Firefox OS platform and plugins.

Everything about apps feels like a win for users—they are faster and easier to use than what came before. But underneath all that convenience is something sinister: the end of the very openness that allowed Internet companies to grow into some of the most powerful or important companies of the 21st century.

The basic idea behind Viking Chicken is that you are cooking the really nice chicken on top of a bed of fruit (sweet) and vegetables (savory). The sweet and savory combo, mixed with chicken fat, butter and salt, is killer. And you don't need to be too picky about what the veggies are. You can clean out the refrigerator with what you've got if you like. That's why I call it "Viking," because it's sort of low brow and hard to mess up.

1 1/2 ounces Campari 1/2 ounce Tanqueray gin 1/4 ounce Cynar 1/4 ounce Fernet Branca 1 ounce Dolin Blanc Vermouth 15 drops orange bitters (Fee's, Regan's, or a mix) 3 orange twists

A Minimalistic Wrapper for IndexedDB

A Minimalistic Wrapper for IndexedDB

I believe that web developers need a better workflow that automates tree shaking, dead code elimination, minification, and more. Stop caring how big a library is, and instead let a tool or build step produce the smallest output possible for you, ideally by tree shaking the application.

Let's create a page where a user can update their avatar with as little friction as possible: they just drop an image anywhere on the page and it's done.

Let's create a page where a user can update their avatar with as little friction as possible: they just drop an image anywhere on the page and it's done.

GitHub’s communication style can be summed up in one word: asynchronous.

GitHub’s communication style can be summed up in one word: asynchronous.

Launch day here was quite a day, and I thought I would describe my view of it.

lmorchard starred taye/interact.js

lmorchard starred mojo-js/paperclip.js

First, I’m going to need somebody to explain to me exactly what it was that we were fighting for.

First, I’m going to need somebody to explain to me exactly what it was that we were fighting for.

By night, he creates art with Cheetos.

By night, he creates art with Cheetos.

lmorchard starred glennjones/microformat-node

lmorchard starred glennjones/microformat-shiv

The United States Potato Board (USPB) is committed to designing and conducting consumer research that enables the industry to identify opportunities and make informed decisions to increase demand for potatoes

lmorchard starred baruchel/vim-notebook

The fact that PouchDB works at all is a tiny miracle.

Sometimes you find the means to be creative in the most delicious places. For example, in a bag of Skittles. I take these tasty treats and shove them into my maw like some ravenous candy-loving ogre, but Dallas Wilson takes … Continue reading →

Sometimes you find the means to be creative in the most delicious places. For example, in a bag of Skittles. I take these tasty treats and shove them into my maw like some ravenous candy-loving ogre, but Dallas Wilson takes … Continue reading →

People often ask me: Why are you still involved so deeply with Mozilla? Firefox won. Why haven’t you gone on to do something else? Does Mozilla still have work to do?

People often ask me: Why are you still involved so deeply with Mozilla? Firefox won. Why haven’t you gone on to do something else? Does Mozilla still have work to do?

But the biggest secret of the Republican triumph surely lies in the discovery that obstructionism bordering on sabotage is a winning political strategy. From Day 1 of the Obama administration, Mr. McConnell and his colleagues have done everything they could to undermine effective policy, in particular blocking every effort to do the obvious thing — boost infrastructure spending — in a time of low interest rates and high unemployment.

lmorchard starred felixge/node-require-all

To create an HTTPS server, you need two things: an SSL certificate, and Node's built-in https module.

Anyway, I really miss blo.gs and would love to see that kind of service come back to tilde.club.

The interconnection battle has been framed as one between Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, and others on one side and Netflix on the other. A better way to think of it might be to put the eyeball networks on one side and the future on the other. via Pocket

The Old Guard is the cultural bellwether of the company. I believe that culture is a slippery thing to fully define, but I do believe it is the responsibility of the Old Guard to not only take the time to define the key values that are the pillars of that culture, to communicate the nuance of those values over and over again, and, lastly, when it becomes apparent they are no longer serving the company, they must be willing to let those values evolve.

The Old Guard is the cultural bellwether of the company. I believe that culture is a slippery thing to fully define, but I do believe it is the responsibility of the Old Guard to not only take the time to define the key values that are the pillars of that culture, to communicate the nuance of those values over and over again, and, lastly, when it becomes apparent they are no longer serving the company, they must be willing to let those values evolve.

lmorchard starred R4stl1n/allianceauth

lmorchard starred rstacruz/nprogress

lmorchard starred ttaubert/secret-notes

lmorchard starred defunkt/jquery-pjax

lmorchard starred rails/turbolinks

The proof is in: Detailed report shows how U.S. Internet access monopolies punish rivals and catch innocent bystanders in the crossfire—legally.Devan Dewey, the Chief Technology Officer of midsize investment consultancy NEPC, has an orderly office and a highly organized mind. via Pocket

When you grow up in Asgard, certain Earth customs might seem perplexing. And when Thor is in the US for Halloween for the first time, it's a bit of a disaster. Read more...

wait a sec… gahh… what the… arrg… just a… ok. got it! [video]