People who write about very specific things, I’ve found, often have the most interesting things to say. Steven Levithan writes Flagrant Badassery, which covers JavaScript and regular expressions. Steven’s XRegExp library does some killer stuff that the native JS RegExp does not; at only 2.4KB, it’s a must‐have for grepping and/or parsing on the client side.
Month: May 2008
Gabe essentially began anti‐anxiety medication and planned a trip for Paris in the same week, possibly even in the same moment, and as an observer — it is literally my job to observe — this was an intriguing process. He wasn’t yet ensorcelled by the chemical, and yet with full awareness of his own agony he went through the previously unthinkable process of putting all this together. It must have been something like jumping from a plane with a strange backpack and a pamphlet entitled “Your Parachute.”
Penny Arcade
Chris Mills looks at Dragonfly, Opera’s new Firebug‐ish developer panel. It’s not Firebug, but it’s much closer thereto than the competition from IE and Safari.
Mark says it best, once again. Mozilla’s absence from the Cannonball Run–style race to comply with Acid 3 was disappointing. They’d have come in third place, but that’s not the point. If you play, you win. If you make excuses, grumble about the rubric, or quibble over minutiae, you lose.