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My year in photos (2022)

December 30, 2022

Video: Flying Superheroes of the Hitchcock Cinematic Universe (spoilers)

January 29, 2022

My year in photos (2021)

December 31, 2021

Lessons in Gratefulness

July 17, 2021

My year in photos (2020)

December 30, 2020

Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) (Top 100 Films)

December 25, 2020

Thoughts on Death on the Appalachian Trail

October 27, 2020

Javascript Bind, Partial Application, and Currying

June 16, 2020

Day Eight on the Appalachian Trail (One Year Later): Muddy

April 14, 2020

Day Seven on the Appalachian Trail (One Year Later): Did you bring a gun?

April 13, 2020

Day Six on the Appalachian Trail (One Year Later): Five-Star Shelter Accommodations at Tumbling Run Shelters

April 12, 2020

Day Five on the Appalachian Trail (Zero Day) (One Year Later): Lazy Zero Day in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania

April 11, 2020

Day Four on the Appalachian Trail (One Year Later)

April 10, 2020

Day Three on the Appalachian Trail (One Year Later)

April 9, 2020

Day Two on the Appalachian Trail (One Year Later)

April 8, 2020

A Year Ago Today I Started Hiking the Appalachian Trail

April 7, 2020

Real Life On And Off the Appalachian Trail

February 12, 2020

Disneyland One-Day vs Annual Passport Prices Over Time: 1981 to 2019 (adjusted for 2020 dollars)

January 25, 2020

Video: Spring in Kyoto Revisited

January 17, 2020

Plum Blossoms at Kitano Tenmangu Shrine in Kyoto, Japan (京都の北野天満宮)

January 11, 2020

Ditching Disqus (Migrating Away Since It Has Become a Monster)

January 10, 2020

My year in photos (2019)

December 31, 2019

Matching Accented Strings in Javascript

October 10, 2019

My Half Marathon: Hiking Half the Appalachian Trail

October 7, 2019

The Godfather Review (Top 100 Films)

January 6, 2019

My year in photos (2018)

December 31, 2018

A Simple Introduction to Javascript Map and Reduce Array Helper Functions

August 26, 2018

Behold the Birds of the Air (Soren Kierkegaard)

July 11, 2017

Stifling Laughter in Distant Places

July 9, 2017

My new photography YouTube channel

March 11, 2017

Beginning thoughts on the idea of a Great American Road Trip

January 11, 2017

My year in photos (2016)

December 31, 2016

New Orleans trip (November 2016)

November 21, 2016

Maybe it's healthier to embrace discomfort

November 9, 2016

Quine and Heidegger: Against Reductionism

October 19, 2016

Junk Food, Junk Politics, Junk TV, Junk Body, Junk Mind, Junk Truth

October 13, 2016

Time for autumn adventures

September 29, 2016

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) (Top 100 Films)

July 6, 2016

Photo assignment: Kyoto alleyways at night

June 14, 2016

Festival Parade Hadrah 2016 (Muslim parade in Solo, Indonesia)

May 26, 2016

Indonesia trip: the good, the bad, the ugly

May 25, 2016

The roads of Indonesia

May 18, 2016

Shinkansen trip from Kyoto to Sapporo

May 18, 2016

Monju-e Ceremony in Nara (文殊会興福寺)

April 28, 2016

Japan once again: update from the Banana House in Osaka

April 19, 2016

11 mile Big Basin hike

February 2, 2016

Casablanca (1942) (Top 100 Films)

January 26, 2016

Schindler's List (1993) (Top 100 Films)

January 26, 2016

Ikiru (1952) (Top 100 Films)

January 5, 2016

A Journey Through The Top 100 Films

January 5, 2016

Big Basin October Hike

October 27, 2015

Agile personals ad

October 8, 2015

Quarter-life crisis, third-life crisis, mid-life crisis

October 4, 2015

Quick failed trip to Pinnacles National Park

September 12, 2015

The Coffee That Made the UFO Dance

July 19, 2015

A ride on Yosemite's Sugar Pine Railroad

May 16, 2015

Existential nights

April 30, 2015

Tourist season in Japan, and a brief escape to Cafe Rhinebeck in Kyoto

April 29, 2015

The Beatitudes

March 9, 2015

The surprising benefits of going to the gym

March 2, 2015

Living as driftwood

January 3, 2015

My year in photos, part 2 (2014)

December 31, 2014

My year in photos, part 1 (2014)

December 16, 2014

The City Is A Medium, The Medium Is The Message

September 16, 2014

async.parallel with a simple timeout (node.js)

September 8, 2014

Milky Way galaxyrise from Maui

September 7, 2014

What is AMD, CommonJS, and UMD?

April 30, 2014

The mobile web is dead (and we have killed it)

April 14, 2014

Introducing Negative Scroll Blur (for browsers that support CSS filters)

November 23, 2013

You Can't JavaScript Under Pressure walkthrough

October 4, 2013

The Google Bitch

September 24, 2013

Fourth of July letter to my government

July 4, 2013

NSA's PRISM: from the minds of conspiracy nuts, turns out to be reality

June 7, 2013

Quick style comparison of mobile image search sites

May 10, 2013

Kyoto Cherry Blossoms 2013 (京都の桜２０１３年)

April 30, 2013

Video: Spring in Kyoto (京都の春)

April 15, 2013

How to import imiwa? vocabulary lists directly into Anki (iOS, iPhone guide)

February 27, 2013

Japan: from miniature train to bullet train

January 29, 2013

Forms of Escapism

December 8, 2012

A theory of leisure time, choice, and happiness

October 19, 2012

Descartes on building software frameworks

October 2, 2012

The life of your parents' choosing

September 15, 2012

Thoughts on TrapWire

August 11, 2012

More fun with WebKit pseudoelements: -webkit-search-cancel-button (or: Pseudoclass Inception)

August 10, 2012

Initial thoughts on the Retina MacBook Pro (after a few minutes at the store)

June 19, 2012

I think I'm learning Japanese: JLPT vocabulary words 1 to 50 (audio)

May 28, 2012

Response to 'What’s next for mobile now that adaptive design has failed?'

May 23, 2012

New direction (Developer Blog to Blog)

May 6, 2012

Why is Philosophy still important?

May 6, 2012

Post a status update to the native Facebook app from a web link

February 2, 2012

Web development, Silicon Valley rant

October 22, 2011

iOS5 SunSpider: iPhone 4S vs iPhone 4 vs iPhone 3GS

October 14, 2011

iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, and iPhone 3GS photo comparison

October 14, 2011

Mobile Performance Manifesto

October 11, 2011

When to base64 encode images (and when not to)

August 28, 2011

Different ways of defining functions in JavaScript (this is madness!)

June 24, 2011

On professional self-worth

June 21, 2011

New Mobile Safari stuff in iOS5: position:fixed, overflow:scroll, new input type support, web workers, ECMAScript 5

June 7, 2011

The incredibly painful way of getting an RSS feed of a Twitter list

June 5, 2011

Android 3.0 Honeycomb is first to implement the Device API

February 24, 2011

My O'Reilly Books Wishlist

February 22, 2011

Improving yourself as a programmer versus as a human being

February 20, 2011

Checking for undefined, null, and empty variables in JavaScript

February 11, 2011

A peek into Google's Jules Verne tribute (February 8, 2011)

February 7, 2011

JavaScript SunSpider benchmark: iOS 4.3 vs iOS 4.0

January 22, 2011

Notes: Mobile Web Design (Cameron Moll, 2007)

January 21, 2011

Implementing iPhone's slider unlock with input type='range'

January 16, 2011

JavaScript news resources

January 14, 2011

What happens when you have no JavaScript fallback?

January 12, 2011

How to spot outdated JavaScript

January 7, 2011

What is a closure in JavaScript?

January 3, 2011

Mobile JavaScript libraries and frameworks (Mobile Web Part 7)

December 6, 2010

What happens when we serve JavaScript with random MIME types?

November 1, 2010

Top ten things HTML5 makes simpler

October 7, 2010

Does it still make sense to use em rather than px?

October 5, 2010

JavaScript links from last week (September 26)

October 5, 2010

Mobile Monday: Best Practices for Mobile Design (September 20, 2010)

September 21, 2010

Server side console.log

September 15, 2010

Optimizing based on connection speed: using navigator.connection on Android 2.2+

September 14, 2010

Basic HTML5 template

September 8, 2010

Dealing with device orientation (Mobile web part 6)

August 24, 2010

BlackBerry Torch SunSpider results (JavaScript benchmark)

August 18, 2010

Is a hash faster than a Switch in JavaScript?

August 17, 2010

Open Web Camp II at Stanford (July 17, 2010)

July 17, 2010

A Visit From Flickr!

July 16, 2010

Friday links: mobile performance studies, the upcoming device element, and more (July 15)

July 16, 2010

Thursday links (July 8)

July 8, 2010

Targeting Internet Explorer (IE): the age-old struggle

July 7, 2010

Using mobile-specific HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (Mobile web part 5)

June 29, 2010

iPhone 4 SunSpider test results (22% faster than iPhone 3GS)

June 25, 2010

JavaScript SunSpider test: iOS 3.1.3 versus iOS 4 GM

June 10, 2010

JavaScript SunSpider: HTC Evo versus HTC Incredible versus Nexus One

June 10, 2010

How to install obsolete Android Virtual Devices (AVDs)

June 9, 2010

Mobile First: Luke Wroblewski on mobile design

June 5, 2010

On designing a mobile webpage (Mobile web part 4)

May 26, 2010

Designing buttons that don't suck (Mobile web part 3)

May 19, 2010

The mobile developer's toolkit (Mobile web part 2)

May 11, 2010

The viewport metatag (Mobile web part 1)

May 6, 2010

A Clockwork Box

March 2, 2010

Links for the week of February 21, 2010

February 28, 2010

Links for the week of February 14, 2010

February 21, 2010

Overall iPhone browser traffic share is decreasing (Jan2009 to Jan2010)

February 18, 2010

Links for the week of February 7, 2010

February 15, 2010

A primer on CSS colors

December 29, 2009

Video: John Resig - Testing, Performance Analysis, and jQuery 1.4

December 21, 2009

PastryKit: digging into an Apple Pie

December 16, 2009

JavaScript tidbit: special variables ($, $$, _, etc)

December 8, 2009

Ways of passing data to functions in JavaScript

December 4, 2009

IEMobile 6/7 bug: classes and id not supported on the HTML element

December 1, 2009

PHP: dealing with stuff that doesn't exist

December 1, 2009

Pitfalls of declaring variables in JavaScript

November 18, 2009

JavaScript Tidbit: Block scope with let

September 15, 2009

JavaScript Tidbit: Shorthand Object Instantiation

September 14, 2009

PHP Tidbit: Dead simple singleton

September 14, 2009

IE Mobile 6.12 problem: browser ignores the specificity of CSS display styles

August 31, 2009