Archive for July 2003

31 July 2003

Approximate ages of various of my friends when they wrote their first code (not counting copying from books):

Summary of our IRC conversation on the subject:

<graydon> Nat: do you think today's kids -- with their massive overexposure to computers, but with crappy programming environments -- will learn to code earlier or later?
<Nat> graydon: html + css + javascript is first now
<Nat> but at 4 or 5 you don't have shit to publish
<Nat> you want to make the computer do neat things
<graydon> maybe a very popular MMORPG client with an embedded scripting system. in-game programming is a good hook, like MUDs.
<Nat> good call y0
<shaver> yeah
<boc_yyz> i would have started earlier if leisure suit larry had some sort of programmable element to it

20 July 2003

During my dashboard demo at OSCON.

19 July 2003

The power just went out in my building, causing my network to die (but not my laptop). So I was like: awe crap. I guess I’ll just watch TV.

7 July 2003

Last night a bunch of us swam across the Charles River, under the BU bridge. It was so beautiful, I wish I could’ve taken photos somehow.

4 July 2003

I just confirmed this.

It took me about 5 minutes to even try it though, since “Screensaver” was renamed to “Screen Effects” in the new system preferences panel in OS X, and I couldn’t figure out how to turn on locking for the life of me.

3 July 2003

These photos by Henri Cartier-Bresson are probably the best portraits I’ve ever seen. I especially like the one of Oppenheimer, with the little shards of light coming into the room.

Yup. August it is.