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Being Reddited

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

I’ve often wondered what it looks like when a completely unknown site enjoys some social media popularity. So when my one-night project jsregex was on its way to the reddit front page, I threw some analytics on there to see what happens. If you’re curious too, here is the data. This is for a site
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JavaScript: The Replace Secret

Thursday, December 25th, 2008

I was taking a look at the MDC page for JavaScript’s replace function and noticed something interesting: It can take a function for its second argument.  That page is a little fuzzy on the details and other docs on the internet generally don’t even mention this option.  So I explored a little.  Here is an
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Taking your city for granted

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

I just read this article on 10 things to do when you visit Boston. I found the information actually pretty unhelpful as an actual Boston resident.  So, for my fellow Bostonfolk, here are some additional notes to make the list a bit more useful. 1 ) Harbor Cruise: Skip if it isn’t a booze cruise.
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Not the kind of song I want

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

I think the Songbird may be a little bit too relaxed. Designers love to excuse things like this by saying “Dude that’s dumb, everyone can tell it is music coming out of the headphones.”  In reality it doesn’t matter if the user can discern the intent.  It still looks like your logo beefed.

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