Piatti del giorno 58

Back from world travels and clearing the backlog.

• From C declarators to Objective-C blocks syntax - Block syntax from first principles (h/t @jonathanpenn).
• A History of Parametric - Keeping myself occupied with the B-side of a dissertation whose publication I’m eagerly awaiting.
• On Scientific Computing - Many parallels with architectural computing.
• lindes/get-location - CoreLocation command line tool for getting your current location. I should swap this into a post-commit hook that I made up to tag all my commits with lat-long.
• daux.io - Markdown document generator in node. If I didn’t already have something similar I put together in Sinatra I might be all over this.
• JavaScript Isn’t Scheme - “In other words, if JavaScript is Scheme by that criteria, then every language is Scheme, which of course means none of them are.”
• UIButtons and UIControls in UITableViewCell made easy - If you’ve ever felt the pain of a long list of #define’d ints for use as view tags.
• Taking Stackshots - How to create an on-device stack dump the next time an iOS app hangs.
• Too DRY - The Grep Test - An interesting deadman switch on runaway metaprogramming.
• mhagger/git-imerge - Merge pairwise by conflicting commits instead of trying to unsnarl one big conflict presented as a patch on the working directory.
• Flandria - A really fantastic use of browser scroll position to show off type specimens.
• Capptivate - A scrapbook of UI motion graphics, which will be much more important two days from now.
• Up and Down The Ladder of Abstraction - At first, I think, wow, what an amazing warrior-poet of Cocoa and Javascript is Bret Victor, to be thinking and implementing such thoughts. Then I’m a bit disheartened at the level of warrior-poetry necessary with current tools to be able to pull off even these simple demonstration systems.
• The Pixar Way - I have to call it a tie on which person-crucible pairing is more fascinating: Steve Jobs/NeXT or Ed Catmull/Pixar (h/t @scottberkun).
• The Private Eye - “It’s a detective story set in 2076, when everyone in the United States has a secret identity. Our protagonist is a member of the paparazzi, outlaw private investigators who dig up the kind of personal dirt no longer readily available through search engines” (h/t @danimal).