Projectionist: A tumblelog

Sat Jun 30

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Sebastian Blomfield on the Electric Ukulele

Fri Jun 29

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“ The user-friendly computer is a red herring. The user-friendliness of a book just makes it easier to turn pages. There’s nothing user-friendly about learning to read. ”

Alan Kay

Thu Jun 28

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Coolidge High, Takoma Park, Maryland

Wed Jun 27

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Li Beirut

Fairuz

Mon Jun 25

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“ I’ve just gone down a bytecode k-hole. I’m command-I-ing everything in sight. It really is turtles all the way down. ”

Marcel on exploring Squeak’s implementation (in itself)

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In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Neutral Milk Hotel

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Aircraft by Jeffrey Milstein

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Module bundles

module ModuleBundle
  def self.new(*args, &block)
    module_bundle = Module.new(*args, &block)
    module_bundle.module_eval do
      callbacks_to_bubble_up = {
       :included => :include,
       :extended => :extend  
      }
      
      bubble_up = lambda do |callback, method|
        module_eval(<<-EVAL, __FILE__, __LINE__)
          def self.#{callback}(klass)
            included_modules.each do |included_module|
              klass.send(:#{method}, included_module)
            end
          end
        EVAL
      end

      callbacks_to_bubble_up.each do |callback, method|
        bubble_up[callback, method]
      end
    end
    module_bundle
  end
end

UnixDetectionTools = ModuleBundle.new do
  include NetworkDetection
  include DiskDetection
  include HardwareDetection
  include OperatingSystemVersionDetection
end

class UnixWorker < Worker
  include UnixDetectionTools
end

Sun Jun 24

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code texture

marcel: i've been writing C code and i can only describe it as crunchy, for some reason

like crunchy thick riffs

patrick: not crunchy granola

marcel: no, not granola

crunchy amplitude

patrick: so it's like a sixties garage rock cut

wherease your ruby code is... ?

marcel: my ruby code is like those chicks who do gymnastics with bouncy balls and streamers

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Cloth pile

Sat Jun 23

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Don't Give Up

The Whitest Boy Alive

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Hello Tarek

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27 Forever

The Sixth Great Lake

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“ No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. ”

Edward Sapir

Thu Jun 21

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Naseer Shamma playing the oud one-handed

Wed Jun 20

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Tip Never refrigerate tomatoes

According to Russ Parsons, you should never refrigerate a tomato as it will greatly reduce its flavor.

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Embracing constraints: Wheelchair backflip edition

Tue Jun 19

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pasokon

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“ I don’t know about your world, but my real world is more procedural and, sort of…throwing lots of exceptions. ”

David Black at the Boston Ruby User’s Group

Mon Jun 18

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Field Music – In Context

Fri Jun 15

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Things To Do

Lambchop

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North Avenue Beach

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“ I wonder if self-deprecation is how you get psyched in Japan. ”

why the lucky stiff

Thu Jun 14

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Rails core

Michael K. - deep fried mars bars

Michael K. - I've seen those

Michael K. - even taken a bite..

Jeremy K. - A+++++++++++++++++ would take another bite

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Astronaut Jim Reilly

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Seadragon & Photosynth

Live demo at TED2007.

Wed Jun 13

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Fully encapsulated class attribute

class Foo
  @@partially_encapsulated = {}
  
  class << self
    def []=(key, value)
      @@partially_encapsulated[key] = value
    end
    
    def [](key)
      @@partially_encapsulated[key]
    end
  end
end

Foo[:name] = 'Marcel'
Foo[:name]
# => "Marcel"
Foo.send(:class_variable_get, 
         :@@partially_encapsulated).clear
Foo[:name]
# => nil
      
class Bar
  fully_encapsulated = {}
  
  self.class.send(:define_method, :[]=) do |key, value|
    fully_encapsulated[key] = value
  end
  
  self.class.send(:define_method, :[]) do |key|
    fully_encapsulated[key]
  end
end

Bar[:name] = 'Marcel'
Bar[:name]
# => "Marcel"

# ???

# Challenge: Clear fully_encapsulated
# without writing a C extension.
# Hint: I have no idea if that's even 
# possible :)

# UPDATE
#
# Scott Fleckenstein's clever brute
# force solution:
# http://s3.amazonaws.com/projectionist/scott-fleckenstein.txt

# cf. 
# http://project.ioni.st/post/579#quote_579

# New challenge: Modify the hash without
# replacing it :)

# UPDATE
# Robert Rasmussen taking brute force
# to a whole new level:
# http://s3.amazonaws.com/projectionist/robert-rasmussen.txt

# UPDATE
# Jim Weirich writes in with a great solution:
# http://s3.amazonaws.com/projectionist/jim-weirich.txt

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DIY multitouch for $2

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Don't Stop Believing

Petra Haden

Tue Jun 12

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Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy” on the theremin

Mon Jun 11

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Data Visualization of 7 recent Bright Eyes shows at Town Hall

It’s like you were actually there, with your roommates Edward Tufte and John Hodgman

Sun Jun 10

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“ A chef will tell you that sharp knives are safer than dull ones, since they do not have to be forced. ”

Joel VanderWerf on open classes

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Useless weaponry

Sat Jun 9

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Some Postman

The Presidents of the United States of America

Fri Jun 8

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Scrambler Drawings

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Ponytail

Panda Bear

Thu Jun 7

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This was predicted over 2 years ago. And so a response was necesary.

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Oxford Comma

Vampire Weekend

Wed Jun 6

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Vespa LXV

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Deep Blue Sea

Dan Rossen

Mon Jun 4

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Women in Western Art

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Marcel on the Racetrack Playa in 2002

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Film & Video on UbuWeb

UbuWeb is a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde.

Sun Jun 3

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“ The thing I love about writing is you can put in an incredible amount of time compared to the time a person spends receiving it, and you’re adding value to the object during that time that you put in. So you know you can create something worthwhile. ”

Wallace Shawn

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Lisa at White Sands in 2002

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Had

The Wrong Trousers

Sat Jun 2

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“ Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. ”

Niels Bohr, Danish physicist

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Sushi, in depth

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“ [I’m] writing [an] outline for a presentation in November. For all I know by then we will all have flying cars and browser implants. ”

Christian Heilmann, via Twitter, on velocity

Fri Jun 1

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Tip Infinity symbol key combination

Option 5

Best when overused.

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Beanbag Chair

Yo La Tengo

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Dreams of Flying

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Facebook Problem

Kelly - My whole facebook page is Marcel Marcel Marcel.

Kelly - Haha.

Marcel - Because I clearly have a problem :(