Posted in Bookmarks on August 19, 2010 06:37 PM
Vice Admiral to ARM Architecture in four clicks!
Posted in Buzz on August 15, 2010 08:12 AM
I'll be in Mountain View this week (Mon-Fri) at the Mozilla office for a Fennec work week. Let me know if you're in the area and want to meet for lunch, dinner, whatever!
Posted in Journal on July 22, 2010 12:43 AM (comments)
I've done
working from home; I've done
coworking; I've done the
Mozilla Summit and soon I'll have my first
work week. But this week I'm trying something different.
We're visiting my wife's parents in Port Townsend, WA for several days. Instead of taking vacation time, I'm working from their house this week. Since I already work remotely, my team will barely notice the difference. Meanwhile it will be a nice long visit for Sarah and her family, and I get to spend time with them in the mornings/evenings/mealtimes/weekend.
This has got me thinking about other new possibilities for nomadic working. It also seems relevant to this
article on vacations and happiness research which says,
"The most effective way to inoculate a vacationer against the deadening power of adaptation, however, may be the most counterintuitive — to break it up, to interrupt it with real life."
Posted in Photos on July 10, 2010 06:25 AM (comments)
Posted in Photos on July 10, 2010 06:13 AM (comments)
Posted in Buzz on July 10, 2010 06:10 AM
Paul Roget giving one of his most amazing demos of open web technologies and Firefox 4 features (SVG, CSS transitions, WebSockets, video, History API, accelerated graphics, and more) at the 2010 Mozilla Summit.
Posted in Bookmarks on July 08, 2010 01:39 AM
"A very preliminary work in progress" programming language from Mozilla's Graydon Hoare (with help from Brendan Eich, Andreas Gal, Dave Herman, and more).
Looks like a very attractive multi-paradigm design. Lots of safety features (memory safe, no null pointers, objects are immutable by default, actors/tasks have no shared mutable state), structural typing, tagged disjoint unions, type inference, impressive static analysis features, native compilation (direct x86 codegen in Ocaml, and prototype LLVM backend), low-overhead C function calls and easy integration with gdb, valgrind, etc.
Posted in Bookmarks on July 01, 2010 02:30 PM
"Respondents were least happy about the vacation while they were taking it. Beforehand, they looked forward to it with eager anticipation, and within a few days of returning, they remembered it fondly. But while on it, they found themselves bogged down by the disappointments and logistical headaches of actually going somewhere and doing something."
"The most effective way to inoculate a vacationer against the deadening power of adaptation, however, may be the most counterintuitive — to break it up, to interrupt it with real life."
Posted in Bookmarks on June 09, 2010 07:35 PM
"In Rework, we talk about how you need to be willing to let your customers outgrow you. There are more people who are not using your product than people who are; You need to make sure you make it easy for these people to get on board. That’s where your continued growth potential lies."
Posted in Bookmarks on June 01, 2010 09:19 PM
Amusing and detailed reviews of movies the author hates.
Posted in Buzz on May 19, 2010 04:36 AM
Posted in Bookmarks on May 17, 2010 08:38 PM
"If you build an application that's predictable, configurable, and unambiguous your users won't ask for an exit button. The first time they see an unknown background Service that's been running for an hour, or the GPS icon unexpectedly starts flashing, or the device gets hot while in their pocket they're going to get narky."
Posted in Photos on May 16, 2010 07:47 PM (comments)
Posted in Bookmarks on May 16, 2010 05:08 PM
Mobile-optimized XKCD site, including alt-text readable by mobile browsers.
Posted in Bookmarks on May 10, 2010 02:50 AM
Android-specific meta-viewport property. "If it is not specified, it uses the default, 160dpi as of today. Then the 1.0 scale factor specified in the viewport tag means 100% on G1 and 150% on Sholes. If you set 'target-densityDpi' to 'device-dpi', then the 1.0 scale factor means 100% on both G1 and Sholes."
Posted in Bookmarks on May 07, 2010 09:57 PM
"The iPad is always 'hot' — touch anywhere on the screen, brush off a speck of dust, or change its orientation slightly, and something changes... One reason the Kindle seems like a more 'peaceful' ebook reader... is that it has almost no hot zones."
Posted in Buzz on May 06, 2010 06:36 PM
I finally put up a makeshift window shade in my office's skylight. Now I can actually work between 11am and 1pm on sunny days. (Wait, is that a good thing?)
Posted in Buzz on April 29, 2010 11:33 PM
Posted in Bookmarks on April 28, 2010 08:19 PM
"It is JavaScript/CSS 3 based and allows for fixed elements like headers and toolbars on web pages when viewed on the iPhone or on Android. It works on the iPad, too."
Posted in Buzz on April 12, 2010 04:38 PM
Working at Startpad again. Want to join me for lunch at Planet Java?
Posted in Bookmarks on April 05, 2010 10:15 PM
Posted in Journal on April 05, 2010 01:22 AM (comments)
I've just returned from a busy week-long trip visiting family on the East coast. Now I'm ready to start my second week of work for Mozilla.
I stayed home for all my first week, to minimize potential hassles or distractions. It sure is nice and productive working alone in a quiet office for long periods, and going downstairs for meals and snacks with my family. But tomorrow for a change of scene I will be at
StartPad at 1st & Columbia downtown (near Pioneer Square). If you're in the area and want to share lunch or coffee, email/IM/call/text me.
In the future I'll post to
Twitter (which auto-updates
Buzz and Facebook) on the days I'm downtown. You can follow me on any of those sites (or subscribe to
Planet Matt) if you want to know when I'll be around.
Posted in Bookmarks on April 04, 2010 06:02 PM
"This site contains a collection of practice dynamic programming problems and their solutions."
Posted in Buzz on March 25, 2010 02:44 AM
Since I know some of you are MBTI fans: check out my friend Nolan's simplified Myers-Briggs personality test for Android. Use your phone to test people you meet at parties. :)
Posted in Photos on March 24, 2010 10:02 PM (comments)

Playing with a "game" we designed in Scratch.