Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
Rockville, Maryland, USA
Joined March 2008
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@dria timeanddate.com/worldclock/a… . Remember what the first derivative of a sin() function looks like? Fastest change is around the equinoxes.
@getify How about: if you publish an widget to embed in reading material, find a new business? Tired of news articles sucking CPU.
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So Unity on Ubuntu 12.04 looks pretty much the same as 11.10. Except all the keyboard shortcuts are different.
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So pages on the NY Times website now seem to have a constantly-reloading iframe in them somewhere to use lots of extra electricity.
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Why transportation projects cost more in the US than other places (via @MattYglesias): bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-2…
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@TedMielczarek Ocean City NJ, Ocean City MD, and Williamsburg VA? Puzzled by the track to the NE once it's not I-84.
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Specification style and the future of the Web dbaron.org/log/20120827-spec… (I'm trying to blog more, and spend less time writing each post.)
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Forecast track for Isaac is low-confidence right now. I wonder how canceling day 1 of Republican convention will look in hindsight.
@jimblandy Leak hot water into the cold pipe, making the cold run fully hot (see previous tweet).
@jimblandy Bath faucets that allow hot + cold control on a single knob have bad failure modes when leaky, esp. if hot pressure > cold.
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@getify You don't want semicolon insertion before "return" in "if (condition) return"
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I'd expect Republicans to get more flak for protecting domestic terrorists: economist.com/node/21560566 What would they say of D's doing similar?
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@LeaVerou @bz_moz I think it looks like Gecko doesn't support canvas drawImage() of an SVG image; not sure, though.
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@blassey @TedMielczarek That's when it's time to search on hipmunk, pick a result, and overconstrain the search on egencia to match it.
@blassey There are trips where I prefer them, i.e., overnight layover better than 4am wakeup. But always read the itinerary.
@mattyglesias Isn't that at least sometimes because high desirability of the provider causes both?
droughtmonitor.unl.edu/ - the drought across much of the US keeps getting worse