12 October 2012
Links
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Boris Johnson: brilliant, warm, funny – and totally unfit to be PM | Max Hastings | Comment is free | The Guardian
I did like Hastings’ article on Johnson. Although it doesn’t exactly hold out hope for there being any better politicians either.
Tweets
@tomcoates I don’t use its browser integration, but I still like it. Syncing between Mac and iPhone apps is really handy.
@alicebartlett “Parental Alienation”? “Lymphatic Drainage”? How are those even endorsable skills?
@alicebartlett It’s a pleasure!
@alicebartlett CONSIDER YOURSELF LINKED IN ENDORSED.
@alicebartlett You’re the one who favourited it.
@mattb I increasingly find myself daunted by how little good stuff I’d get done if I wasn’t able to use tools etc written by cleverer folk.
Fetch a collection that has dirty data. Dirty data. Dirty. Fetch the dirty data from the back end.
Coding tweets must be tedious to non-coders. Sorry. But if I was an artisanal doohickey weaver you’d love the insight into a craft.
You start writing a quick demo of offline web browsing and then find you’re writing an entire framework in JavaScript. Stop. Hello weekend!
Timezone problems squared. Joy.
@jamesweiner It’s such a shame you’d got so close to launch! Never mind, well done for trying!
@JamesWeiner Disgraceful. Can we expect a statement from the minister responsible in time for the lunchtime news?
@revdancatt Yeah, nuts. Should be so much simpler. And (the front page) less hideous.
@revdancatt If I didn't know about guardian.co.uk/theguardian/all , and having to scroll to the now-at-the-bottom calendar, I'd never find anything.
@paulpod I know how you feel…
“width with padding can sometimes make elements larger than you expect…” Oh, CSS linter, any other obvious NON ERRORS you’d care to share?
@ioanapiscociu Did you read what @samuelpepys actually wrote on the 31st May? That might explain it!