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Crouching Harold, hidden formats

jp.stacey 19 July 2006

Elliotte Rusty Harold roundly Read more

Programming shouldn't be degrading

jp.stacey 19 September 2007

Steve compares “graceful degradation” with “progressive enhancement.” Mostly he takes issue (rightly) with the rhetorical spin that the former applies to the idea of building a website. But I think you can compare them with each other as if they were two different types of crowbar instead: two ways of prising open the task in hand.

How to see Last.fm from the other side of the room with LastJS

jp.stacey 2 March 2008
Proof of concept, more than anything else: how to hook up to a recalcitrant Flash-based interface.

Back from a rather physical near-week of team building with work, I’ve been listening to Last.fm today to recuperate and nurse my tired muscles. But with the music playing on our crusty, trusty old purple iMac in one corner, and me in the other reading, drinking tea or otherwise recuperating, how can I tell at a glance what the current artist is?

Cheaper rail journeys with Matthew and Spliticket

jp.stacey 13 March 2008
The rail industry's biggest fares secret: exposed, and now given an interface.

I’ve built something, just in time for me to crowbar it awkwardly into conversations at OKCon.