Simply Jonathan

IE NetRenderer 

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Screen-shots from multiple versions of Internet Explorer (including 8, beta 2). I won’t go as far as Dan Benjamin, who says he’ll probably drop his VMWare copy now, but this will probably be really useful.

Learning to Think Like a Programmer 

Wow. I need to pass this on.

1234567890

$ python -c 'import time; print time.ctime(1234567890)'
Sat Feb 14 00:31:30 2009

One way or the other, I probably won’t be able to remember, but it’s fun anyway.

(Hat tip, Thought Palace.)

John Gruber on pricing 

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It seems a little weird to link to a link, but excerpting can show a lot about an article, and the final bit is incredible:

Apple would be ignoring trends seen in its own earnings report if it refused to offer a device in the netbook category. In Wednesday’s earnings call, Apple announced it sold a record number of iPods in the quarter: 22.7 million. With iPods priced no higher than $400, it’s clear the netbook price range is attractive to consumers.

Apple sells a lot of copies of iWork, so maybe they should make a $79 netbook, too.

Gruber nails it here — an iPod is a whole different story from a netbook, it’s ridiculous to compare them; by that logic, every consumer product should be priced the same. I hear potatoes are cheap.

The periodic table of awesoments 

I have no idea what an ‘awesoment’ is supposed to be (well, actually I do — I believe it’s an attempt at making a noun of ‘awesome’, but it seems a weird one to me), but the list is truly awesome.

Particular highlight is the fact that Chuck Norris (11) doesn’t have an abbreviation.

(Via Subtraction)

'Wherefore' does not mean 'where' 

This knowledge of course became apparent in some circles one and a half years ago, when John Gruber used it incorrectly.

Actually, to someone like me — a native speaker of the Danish language, in this case — ‘wherefore’ meaning ‘why’ is quite obvious: it’s the exact same in Danish.

In Danish, ‘why’ is called ‘hvorfor’, which quite literally translates into ‘wherefore’. (‘Hvor’ meaning ‘where’, and ‘for’ meaning… ‘for’.)

But in general, I’m all for a good language lesson.

Why Unions Matter 

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John August on why joining the Writers Guild of America is mandatory for selling a script in Hollywood.

Of course, John does not make the real case for why unions matter, in discussing only the WGA, but he gives some of the reasons. Mainly that if there weren’t unions, workers would be fucked.

(And in USA, many are. The unions of the States have historically been very poor, at least compared to many countries in Europe. I did a rather extensive paper on this once, and it was very sad to find out how bad it is in the state.)

People who deserve it 

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Although some of these are a little stupid, there are some real gems amongst.

(Via Kottke)

Filing browser bugs 

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John Resig‘s guide on how to file a proper browser bug. Unfortunately, I’m one of those people John Resig lament over, having never filed a bug report in my life.

Andy Clarke's copy-writing guide 

Although aimed at clients, there’s sound advice for anyone involved with copy-writing on the Web. Great guide, and one that will hopefully turn into a resource to be reckoned with in time.

This is Simply Jonathan, a blog written by Jonathan Holst. It's mostly about technical topics (and mainly the Web at that), but an occasional post on clothing, sports, and general personal life topics can be found.

Jonathan Holst is a programmer, language enthusiast, sports fan, and appreciator of good design, living in Copenhagen, Denmark, Europe. He is also someone pretentious enough to call himself the 'author' of a blog. And talk about himself in the third person.