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Via Daring Fireball, Glenn Fleishman’s Atlantic article on curly quotes: The trouble with being a former typesetter is that every day online is a new adventure in torture. Take the shape of quotation marks. These humble symbols are a dagger in my eye when a straight, or typewriter-style, pair
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Mike Ash’s presentation on memory layout in Swift.
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From the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Medicare’s Hospital Insurance (HI) trust fund will remain solvent – that is, able to pay 100 percent of the costs of the hospital insurance coverage it provides – through 2028, the program’s trustees wrote in their latest report. Even after 2028, when
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The guys over at CleanCoders made a video series on the creation of an iOS app. While refractoring, they decided to remove keyword arguments. We also walked through the code replacing most of the keyword arguments with positional arguments – something that swift does not make particularly convenient. We did this
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The Wall Street Journal editorial board critizies Trump’s Carrier deal, calling it a “shakedown:” A mercantilist Trump trade policy that jeopardized those exports would throw far more Americans out of work than the relatively low-paying jobs he’s preserved for now in Indianapolis. Mr. Trump’s Carrier squeeze might
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This is the culmination of half a days work trying to figure out why my Lambda function didn’t fire: The console doesn’t support directly modifying permissions in a function policy. You must use either the AWS CLI or the AWS SDKs. In other words: it is a secret
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Courtesy David Frum: Nixon 1960: 49.55% Gore 2000: 48.38% Kerry 2004: 48.26% Ford 1976: 48.01% Romney 2012: 47.15% Trump 2016: 46.17%
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I keep thinking about this tweet from Garry Kasparov: Saying that fair elections are rigged is as much a crime against democracy as saying that rigged elections are fair. It’s an odd twist that Trump is casting doubt on an election that he legally won (even if it was
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I just realized the iTunes visualizer is still there. I remember Steve Jobs getting up and demonstrating this in a keynote. Does anybody still use this? The only way I would possibly use this is if it were on the AppleTV. As far as I know, it’s not.
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There has been lots of ink spilled on the evils of identitly politics and how the Democrats have to embrace the color-blind notion of class. Here are a couple of articles that push back on that. Michelle Goldberg, in Slate: The focus of left-of-center politics in the dark years to
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I spent the better part of the evening reading up on the Facebook Graph API and writing a tool that can do my auto-posting for me. Right now it only works with Facebook. It can post images, status updates, and links in their native format. It’s not too smart
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From the Center for Economic and Policy Research: The Senate can [demand transparency] by refusing to confirm any nominations until Trump takes the following steps to promote faith that a Trump presidency will not enrich himself and his family: Releases his tax returns; Releases a detailed and current financial disclosure