August 2009
79 posts
[slate-language] http://bit.ly/RkYmh Brian T. Rice - 3 commits
Waiting awkwardly outside a music venue while the band does sound checks. Can’t a guy get a beer at the bar or something?
Wow, the GoPro Hero Wide is quite the little camera. I got wide-angle shots of everything pretty at the Evergreen air museum. Flickr soon…
going to check out the Evergreen Aviation Museum this afternoon
my girlfriend and Seattle friends are passing through town right now on the way to Burning Man. I’ll have to join them again next year.
On closer inspection, this was a learning experience: taking shots with a 170-degree FOV means a different grip to avoid thumb shots :)
Burning Man, ESUG, DragonCon… I’m not going to any of these this week, but there in spirit
[slate-language] http://bit.ly/RkYmh Brian T. Rice - 4 commits
enjoying having a jailbroken iPhone again. “jailbroken” = “unbroken”
Snow Leopard may omit InputManager for good reasons, but iChat missing Chax just isn’t worth using compared to Adium
at the PDX hackathon event at the Lucky Lab pub. it’s a bit overshadowed by some meet-and-greet and some gamers in the side room.
wow, one of the guys here at the hackathon has a python processor for his own evolving percussion notation language. it’s like ASCII art
I was at the local AdvRiders group meeting, but there was not enough talk about motorcycles and riding. almost none, really.
perverse Slate idea of the day: my YAML and JSON codecs are now sufficiently modular that I could build REPLs, re-using existing code
[slate-language] http://bit.ly/RkYmh Brian T. Rice - 5 commits
Just tested github-twitter integration. I’ll turn it off if it gets too spammy
[slate-language] http://bit.ly/RkYmh Brian T. Rice - 2 commits
My presentation at #pdxst went pretty well, with a lot of good feedback. Smalltalkers are an easy audience for Slate, but this is practice.
Interesting point that error messages would best explain the path to the situation, via call/data path, say
At Galois for the Fleet tech talk by Adam Megacz.
Overheard: “equality of proofs via beta reduction”.
Fleet concerns hardware synchronous dataflow networks, but Slate stream system design might benefit from these formalisms
Substructural logics and category theory are coming to mind - lots of binary relations with varying axioms apply to process networks
answer to previous question: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/polylinealgorithm.html
my macbook is threatening to derail tomorrow’s presentation. at worst, I can bring enough on my USB key or host it online, though
How much can GIS shape data be prepared/compressed for js consumption?
joining the Snow Leopard online pre-order rush. Or maybe I’ll just pick up a copy in the local store when it arrives…
back at home after a nice night out and return day-ride
On Capitol Hill in Seattle to see friends
this whole awake-to-sleeping transition needs some help, lately :P