The Mandelbrot set canvas demo ◻
Some more fun with the canvas element, this time with that old fractal standby, the Mandelbrot set.
The Alot is Better Than You at Everything ◻
“The Alot is an imaginary creature that I made up to help me deal with my compulsive need to correct other people’s grammar.”
Foundations of Computer Science ◻
A free introductory computer science book from Standford.
List of freely available programming books ◻
Lists of free programming books generated by the users of Stack Overflow.
There Are No Famous Programmers ◻
As a programmer, this fact is comforting.
Fanboyism and Brand Loyalty ◻
I wish everyone on the internet could be made to read this an understand it:
The Misconception: You prefer the things we [sic] own over the things we [sic] don’t because we made rational choices when we bought them.
The Truth: You prefer the things you own because you rationalize your past choices to protect your sense of self.
John Gruber jumps the shark ◻
I’ve been reading Gruber’s Daring Fireball almost since the beginning. Last week I decided to stop reading it because the blog started sounding more and more like propaganda for our Dear Leader Jobs. Or maybe I’m more and more sick of Apple related news and discussion? Regardless, it’s good to see that I’m not the only one.
Living in denial: Why sensible people reject the truth ◻
“The first thing to note is that denial finds its most fertile ground in areas where the science must be taken on trust.”
Dive Into HTML5 ◻
A free (and currently still being written) book about HTML5 by Mark Pilgrim.
Canvas element demo ◻
I was having a little bit of fun with the canvas element today. The patterns drawn are from an algorithm I found on page 3 of The New Turing Omnibus by A. K. Dewdney.
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