I find it funny that Internet Explorer’s so-called Compatibility Mode breaks compatibility with the vast majority of websites.
A Twitter Hiatus
I’m taking a break from twitter. I’ll probably do more microblogging here or on my code site, but no promises. Twitter keeps doing stupid things that I disagree with and I’m sick of it. More importantly, the service doesn’t add as much value to my life as it used to. So I’m going to try […]
The Modern Programmer
There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
The earth, and every common sight,
To me did seem
Apparell’d in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a dream.
It is not now as it hath been of yore;—
Turn wheresoe’er I may,
By night or day,
The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Stanza I of Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood by William Wordsworth
WordCamp San Francisco Proposal
I just submitted my proposal to speak at WordCamp San Francisco this year: Unit testing can be difficult, slow, and it often seems that the benefits are not worth the effort. I want to show you otherwise. With the support of TechCrunch leadership, the TechCrunch dev team and I were able to make tests an […]
In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound
The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
Welcome to Impractically Ornate. This is my new site where I’ll be playing around.
This is effectively replacing my old personal blog, although I’ll leave it up for archival purposes.
I plan to post all sorts of things here. I hope you enjoy it. ∞