dstorey:

Adobe announced a proposal for CSS Shaders at Adobe Max two days ago. This was backed by both Opera and Apple, and the spec will be developed by the FX Task Force at the W3C. For those of you who are not aware, the FX task force is an elite band of ninjas’s chosen from the ranks of the CSS…

dustyprogrammer:

I switch between programming languages quite a bit; I often wondered what happens when having to deal with the different syntaxes, does the syntax allow you to be more expressive or faster at coding in one language or another. I dont really know about that; but what I do know what keys are pressed…

nfarina:

It was about one year ago that we switched to Git. Previously, we used Subversion, through the Mac app Versions, which (rightly) holds an Apple Design Award.

I made the executive decision to leave our comfy world of Versions because it seemed clear that Git was winning the Internet. There was much grumbling from my teammates, who were busy enough doing actual work thank you very much.

But I pressed forward. We signed up for accounts on Github. We learned how to type 'git push' and 'git pull'. We became more confident. Git is just like any other source control system! But it wasn’t long before one of our devs called me over to look at a…situation.

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vivekhaldar:

How do things–natural as well as man-made–grow? If you double the size of something, what happens to its other properties?

Geoff West and his colleagues have spent a lot of time studying such questions. Their findings are fascinating. Living things grow sub-linearly: doubling the mass of…

carterac:

Princeton just published a collection of essays called ”Major Choices,” in which graduates from the last 20 years were asked to describe “what they studied at Princeton, and why they chose the departments in which they concentrated; what they’ve done professionally; and how their studies may…