I have learned some fascinating things in the past few days that I thought I might share.

Pylons and caching

So I had a problem. Pokémon pages are a bit complicated to generate. They mash all over the database doing various stupid tricks. The Eevee page was, a few days ago, taking some 400 queries to cough up. A page for a very common move ( Read more... )

As I opened the month talking about this, and I keep looking into ways to handle identity well for floof, it seems appropriate to report on the current state of things as November comes to a close.

Most recently, Google started supporting Webfinger.

Webfinger is a throwback to the old-school finger protocol, which let you request information on a ( Read more... )

Browsers are, really, not a very good platform for building Web applications. I take 'Web application' in a much broader sense here; any interactive Web site, really, is somewhat vulnerable to the same problems.

Separation of concerns. The Unix philosophy is, supposedly, to do one thing and do it well. The idea is to have a collection of ( Read more... )

The cloud is a funny thing to me. Maybe I'm just getting old ( Read more... )

eh has CSS transforms and doesn't afraid of anything


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http://hackademix.net/2008/05/28/unpatched-flash-vulnerability-widely-exploited-in-the-wild/Read more... )

After at least five years of using all four major proprietary IM protocols -- AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo! -- I am giving up the latter three ( Read more... )

Hey, if you're some random third party reading this, you should try out my Veekun Pokédex. 8)

Also, FOLLOWUP.

So! My good friend PurpleKecleon designed a potential alternate Shaymin based on the description PokeBeach reported, printed it on gloss paper, and took a terrible photo of herself holding it. (You may remember her as the mind and ( Read more... )

Hey! This may look nerdy, but read it anyway. It's interesting, I promise ( Read more... )