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Who Likes Mitt? 12 Nov 2012 | 07:05 am
Here's a real-time peek at the total number of likes on Mitt Romney on Facebook. Mmm, sweet tasty schadenfreude! Source code, such as it is, is up on GitHub. Enjoy!
Fluent Conference 2012 2 Jun 2012 | 02:03 pm
Special note to RSS readers: this entry contains live JavaScript. Please visit the page to see it working! Had a great time presenting at O'Reilly's Fluent Conference: JavaScript & Beyond, held May 2...
Twitter Avatar Portraits 2 Aug 2011 | 04:29 pm
Some generative Canvas magic, with a little help from the Twitter API and YQL's instant-data-URI converter. To try it out, enter your Twitter nickname down there where you see mine, which is kentbrew....
Instant Data URIs 24 Jun 2011 | 03:29 am
If you're using a browser (currently Firefox 3.6 or better) that understands what to do about the FileReader function, you should be able to drag files to the drop zone, below, and immediately see the...
Input Placeholders for Everyone 16 Apr 2011 | 05:59 am
In my travels for Vurve, and last year while at Netflix, I'm running into the new placeholder attribute for INPUT tags. Placeholders are sweet; they supply the reader with a hint about what he's suppo...
South By Southwest, 2011 28 Mar 2011 | 06:09 pm
As always, I'm a couple of days behind on e-mail, so I was delighted to see a note from the folks at SlideShare, telling me that "Mistakes I Made Building Netflix for the iPhone" (embedded below) was ...
Gawker Damage Control 14 Dec 2010 | 05:54 am
While I was away in Brazil, crackers released a large blob of information containing much of Gawker Media's user database. Gawker Media includes sites like Valleywag, Gizmodo, Lifehacker, and I09. Th...
On Leaving Netflix 16 Oct 2010 | 12:25 pm
After many fine adventures at Netflix, I'm off to do the next thing. While I was there, I made: a few mildly entertaining Hack Day projects, which will never see the light of day the Facebook Connec...
Position:Fixed on Android 2.2 Devices 2 Sep 2010 | 05:49 pm
Finally got some position:fixed love from a decent mobile phone. Now if only the iPhone would follow suit we could all quit screwing around with JavaScript and CSS transitions to fake those scrolling ...
Safari Autocomplete Exploit 22 Jul 2010 | 10:04 am
This exploits a Safari bug to be presented next week at Black Hat by the inimitable Jeremiah Grossman. As far as I can tell it won't work in other browsers, including Chrome. E-Mail: Here we're usin...
