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Posts - David Calhoun's blog
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My year in photos (2022)
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Video: Flying Superheroes of the Hitchcock Cinematic Universe (spoilers)
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My year in photos (2021)
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Lessons in Gratefulness
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My year in photos (2020)
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Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) (Top 100 Films)
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Thoughts on Death on the Appalachian Trail
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Javascript Bind, Partial Application, and Currying
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Day Eight on the Appalachian Trail (One Year Later): Muddy
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Day Seven on the Appalachian Trail (One Year Later): Did you bring a gun?
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Day Six on the Appalachian Trail (One Year Later): Five-Star Shelter Accommodations at Tumbling Run
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Day Five on the Appalachian Trail (Zero Day) (One Year Later): Lazy Zero Day in Waynesboro, Pennsylv
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Day Four on the Appalachian Trail (One Year Later)
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Day Three on the Appalachian Trail (One Year Later)
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Day Two on the Appalachian Trail (One Year Later)
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A Year Ago Today I Started Hiking the Appalachian Trail
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Real Life On And Off the Appalachian Trail
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Disneyland One-Day vs Annual Passport Prices Over Time: 1981 to 2019 (adjusted for 2020 dollars)
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Video: Spring in Kyoto Revisited
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Plum Blossoms at Kitano Tenmangu Shrine in Kyoto, Japan (京都の北野天満宮)
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Ditching Disqus (Migrating Away Since It Has Become a Monster)
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My year in photos (2019)
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Matching Accented Strings in Javascript
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My Half Marathon: Hiking Half the Appalachian Trail
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The Godfather Review (Top 100 Films)
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My year in photos (2018)
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A Simple Introduction to Javascript Map and Reduce Array Helper Functions
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Behold the Birds of the Air (Soren Kierkegaard)
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Stifling Laughter in Distant Places
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My new photography YouTube channel
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Beginning thoughts on the idea of a Great American Road Trip
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My year in photos (2016)
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New Orleans trip (November 2016)
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Maybe it's healthier to embrace discomfort
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Quine and Heidegger: Against Reductionism
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Junk Food, Junk Politics, Junk TV, Junk Body, Junk Mind, Junk Truth
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Time for autumn adventures
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) (Top 100 Films)
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Photo assignment: Kyoto alleyways at night
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Festival Parade Hadrah 2016 (Muslim parade in Solo, Indonesia)
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Indonesia trip: the good, the bad, the ugly
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The roads of Indonesia
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Shinkansen trip from Kyoto to Sapporo
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Monju-e Ceremony in Nara (文殊会 興福寺)
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Japan once again: update from the Banana House in Osaka
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11 mile Big Basin hike
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Casablanca (1942) (Top 100 Films)
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Schindler's List (1993) (Top 100 Films)
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Ikiru (1952) (Top 100 Films)
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A Journey Through The Top 100 Films
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Big Basin October Hike
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Quarter-life crisis, third-life crisis, mid-life crisis
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Quick failed trip to Pinnacles National Park
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The Coffee That Made the UFO Dance
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A ride on Yosemite's Sugar Pine Railroad
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Tourist season in Japan, and a brief escape to Cafe Rhinebeck in Kyoto
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The surprising benefits of going to the gym
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My year in photos, part 2 (2014)
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My year in photos, part 1 (2014)
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The City Is A Medium, The Medium Is The Message
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async.parallel with a simple timeout (node.js)
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Milky Way galaxyrise from Maui
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What is AMD, CommonJS, and UMD?
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The mobile web is dead (and we have killed it)
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Introducing Negative Scroll Blur (for browsers that support CSS filters)
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You Can't JavaScript Under Pressure walkthrough
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Fourth of July letter to my government
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NSA's PRISM: from the minds of conspiracy nuts, turns out to be reality
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Quick style comparison of mobile image search sites
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Kyoto Cherry Blossoms 2013 (京都の桜２０１３年)
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Video: Spring in Kyoto (京都の春)
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How to import imiwa? vocabulary lists directly into Anki (iOS, iPhone guide)
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Japan: from miniature train to bullet train
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A theory of leisure time, choice, and happiness
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Descartes on building software frameworks
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The life of your parents' choosing
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More fun with WebKit pseudoelements: -webkit-search-cancel-button (or: Pseudoclass Inception)
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Initial thoughts on the Retina MacBook Pro (after a few minutes at the store)
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I think I'm learning Japanese: JLPT vocabulary words 1 to 50 (audio)
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Response to 'What’s next for mobile now that adaptive design has failed?'
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New direction (Developer Blog to Blog)
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Why is Philosophy still important?
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Post a status update to the native Facebook app from a web link
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Web development, Silicon Valley rant
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iOS5 SunSpider: iPhone 4S vs iPhone 4 vs iPhone 3GS
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iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, and iPhone 3GS photo comparison
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Mobile Performance Manifesto
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When to base64 encode images (and when not to)
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Different ways of defining functions in JavaScript (this is madness!)
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On professional self-worth
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New Mobile Safari stuff in iOS5: position:fixed, overflow:scroll, new input type support, web worker
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The incredibly painful way of getting an RSS feed of a Twitter list
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Android 3.0 Honeycomb is first to implement the Device API
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My O'Reilly Books Wishlist
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Improving yourself as a programmer versus as a human being
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Checking for undefined, null, and empty variables in JavaScript
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A peek into Google's Jules Verne tribute (February 8, 2011)
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JavaScript SunSpider benchmark: iOS 4.3 vs iOS 4.0
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Notes: Mobile Web Design (Cameron Moll, 2007)
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Implementing iPhone's slider unlock with input type='range'
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JavaScript news resources
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What happens when you have no JavaScript fallback?
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How to spot outdated JavaScript
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What is a closure in JavaScript?
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Mobile JavaScript libraries and frameworks (Mobile Web Part 7)
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What happens when we serve JavaScript with random MIME types?
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Top ten things HTML5 makes simpler
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Does it still make sense to use em rather than px?
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JavaScript links from last week (September 26)
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Mobile Monday: Best Practices for Mobile Design (September 20, 2010)
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Server side console.log
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Optimizing based on connection speed: using navigator.connection on Android 2.2+
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Dealing with device orientation (Mobile web part 6)
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BlackBerry Torch SunSpider results (JavaScript benchmark)
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Is a hash faster than a Switch in JavaScript?
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Open Web Camp II at Stanford (July 17, 2010)
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Friday links: mobile performance studies, the upcoming device element, and more (July 15)
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Thursday links (July 8)
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Targeting Internet Explorer (IE): the age-old struggle
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Using mobile-specific HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (Mobile web part 5)
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iPhone 4 SunSpider test results (22% faster than iPhone 3GS)
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JavaScript SunSpider test: iOS 3.1.3 versus iOS 4 GM
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JavaScript SunSpider: HTC Evo versus HTC Incredible versus Nexus One
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How to install obsolete Android Virtual Devices (AVDs)
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Mobile First: Luke Wroblewski on mobile design
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On designing a mobile webpage (Mobile web part 4)
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Designing buttons that don't suck (Mobile web part 3)
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The mobile developer's toolkit (Mobile web part 2)
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The viewport metatag (Mobile web part 1)
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Links for the week of February 21, 2010
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Links for the week of February 14, 2010
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Overall iPhone browser traffic share is decreasing (Jan2009 to Jan2010)
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Links for the week of February 7, 2010
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A primer on CSS colors
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Video: John Resig - Testing, Performance Analysis, and jQuery 1.4
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PastryKit: digging into an Apple Pie
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JavaScript tidbit: special variables ($, $$, _, etc)
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Ways of passing data to functions in JavaScript
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IEMobile 6/7 bug: classes and id not supported on the HTML element
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PHP: dealing with stuff that doesn't exist
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Pitfalls of declaring variables in JavaScript
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JavaScript Tidbit: Block scope with let
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JavaScript Tidbit: Shorthand Object Instantiation
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PHP Tidbit: Dead simple singleton
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IE Mobile 6.12 problem: browser ignores the specificity of CSS display styles