Eponymous Blog

Reciprocality

Trey — Thu, 22 May 2008 18:23:05 +0000

I read about Reciprocality when I was working at helpdesk at Tennessee Tech years ago (perhaps linked from Slashdot?). It seemed really compelling, and I keep thinking of it from time to time.

I will periodically have thoughts like “what was that thing I read years ago that seemed to explain things and was kind of freaky?” Wikipedia says it verges on pseudoscience.

An article that I saw on Hacker News today reminded me of it.

I haven’t read about it in years, and didn’t re-read the site before posting this, but here it is.

Trey’s Philosophy of Link Design

Trey — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:57:53 +0000

Hovering over a link should always emphasize and never de-emphasize the link. Don’t make it harder to read!
A visited link, if it changes, should be de-emphasized, but not so much so that you can no longer tell if it’s a link.
It should be obvious what is and what isn’t a link.

The Problem with Shared Hosting

Trey — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:12:54 +0000

There’s been quite a bit of talk in the last few days about the state of shared hosting as it relates to the ever-so-popular world of web frameworks. I’ve struggled with this myself, and I understand that it basically amounts to the fact that this kind of web development is new. Newer than the people who are used to throwing .php files on a server are accustomed (myself included).

James Bennett and DHH both think this is time for the web hosts to start putting in work to make this easier for developers. I agree that it’s in web hosting providers’ best interest to make the process easier. However, I also think this is a great opportunity for code monkeys (I’ll count myself as one) to really understand what goes into making a web server tick. There’s more going on than the world of PHP and shared hosting would have you believe.

Whisker-tribute

Trey — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:14:47 +0000

For those that don’t know, I’ve been participating in Whiskerino (a beard growing “competition”) since the beginning of November. Whiskerino has a sister site, Vaginarino, that does parodies / tributes of photos from Whiskerino.

I am very excited that one of my photos got a tribute:

Software Licenses

Trey — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:51:18 +0000

In trying to decide which (open source) license to use for Yark, I wanted to see what other projects that I respect were using.

Here are some (listed alphabetically):

So the most popular options seem to be:

I get a feeling the cool kids are going for the MIT License these days.

Update: I believe I’m going to go with the MIT License. This page helped me understand things a bit better (via).

Another Update (2008-08-05): Now I’m considering using Apache 2.0 because of this (via).