October 2009
5 posts
Sparklines!
Working on Svpply has been absurdly rewarding. On top of being a great codebase, I can sit around watching the “output” from the users for hours. (I wonder if that’s what working on Tumblr is like?)
What nobody else gets to see are all the silly tools and reports that I’ve built for internal use. Sparklines, people! Everyone should be using sparklines!
(Here’s an...
URL shorteners in print?
Speaking of URL shorteners, I was just reading the latest Dan Savage column and noticed that he used a “tiny URL” to point to a blog post by Nate Silver.
Now granted, I was reading this online instead of in print, but I assume the tiny URL made it to the print version of his column — and thus realized that URL shorteners solve a gigantic problem for print media. A url like...
Do they speak English in ᆰ?
As of this moment, I am guilty of obfuscating a system of obfuscating things. Will be interesting to see if the blogosphere picks up on it.
I shall celebrate with a tasty glass of http://svp.ly/ᆰ
