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David Calhoun's blog Posts - David Calhoun's blog Video: Flying Superheroes of the Hitchcock Cinematic Universe (spoilers) January 29, 2022 Tags: video film hitchcock silly My year in photos (2021) December 31, 2021 Tags: photos photography year in photos manzanar eastern sierra getty villa washington dc Lessons in Gratefulness July 17, 2021 Tags: philosophy gratefulness childhood My year in photos (2020) December 30, 2020 Tags: photos photography year in photos new york yellowstone mountains wyoming national parks great smoky mountains Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) (Top 100 Films) December 25, 2020 Tags: top 100 films film movies drama Thoughts on Death on the Appalachian Trail October 27, 2020 Tags: appalachian trail hiking backpacking philosophy Javascript Bind, Partial Application, and Currying June 16, 2020 Tags: javascript programming functional programming Day Eight on the Appalachian Trail (One Year Later): Muddy April 14, 2020 Tags: appalachian trail hiking backpacking Day Seven on the Appalachian Trail (One Year Later): Did you bring a gun? April 13, 2020 Tags: appalachian trail hiking backpacking Day Six on the Appalachian Trail (One Year Later): Five-Star Shelter Accommodations at Tumbling Run Shelters April 12, 2020 Tags: appalachian trail hiking backpacking Day Five on the Appalachian Trail (Zero Day) (One Year Later): Lazy Zero Day in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania April 11, 2020 Tags: appalachian trail hiking backpacking Day Four on the Appalachian Trail (One Year Later) April 10, 2020 Tags: appalachian trail hiking backpacking Day Three on the Appalachian Trail (One Year Later) April 9, 2020 Tags: appalachian trail hiking backpacking Day Two on the Appalachian Trail (One Year Later) April 8, 2020 Tags: appalachian trail hiking backpacking A Year Ago Today I Started Hiking the Appalachian Trail April 7, 2020 Tags: appalachian trail hiking backpacking Real Life On And Off the Appalachian Trail February 12, 2020 Tags: appalachian trail philosophy hiking Disneyland One-Day vs Annual Passport Prices Over Time: 1981 to 2019 (adjusted for 2020 dollars) January 25, 2020 Tags: disneyland data visualizations Video: Spring in Kyoto Revisited January 17, 2020 Tags: video kyoto japan travel Plum Blossoms at Kitano Tenmangu Shrine in Kyoto, Japan (京都の北野天満宮) January 11, 2020 Tags: kyoto japan travel photography photography photos kitano tenmangu shrine plum blossoms Ditching Disqus (Migrating Away Since It Has Become a Monster) January 10, 2020 Tags: disqus commento comments blogging My year in photos (2019) December 31, 2019 Tags: photos photography year in photos stanford theatre kitano tenmangu kyoto japan tokyo appalachian trail cross country trip mono lake red rock canyon eastern sierra utah monument valley carlsbad caverns cave space Matching Accented Strings in Javascript October 10, 2019 Tags: javascript regexp criterion My Half Marathon: Hiking Half the Appalachian Trail October 7, 2019 Tags: hiking appalachian trail nature The Godfather Review (Top 100 Films) January 6, 2019 Tags: film movies top 100 films drama My year in photos (2018) December 31, 2018 Tags: photos photography year in photos hawaii california big basin redwoods state park pinnacles national park autumn colors pigeon point light station autumn eastern sierra A Simple Introduction to Javascript Map and Reduce Array Helper Functions August 26, 2018 Tags: javascript programming webdev map reduce functional programming Behold the Birds of the Air (Soren Kierkegaard) July 11, 2017 Tags: kierkegaard philosophy Stifling Laughter in Distant Places July 9, 2017 Tags: travel rant philosophy My new photography YouTube channel March 11, 2017 Tags: photography youtube video travel Beginning thoughts on the idea of a Great American Road Trip January 11, 2017 Tags: philosophy travel My year in photos (2016) December 31, 2016 Tags: photos photography travel california new orleans japan kyoto osaka korea yosemite kiyomizudera nara hakodate sapporo shirakawago june lake mono lake lundy lake lobdell lake zion national park year in photos New Orleans trip (November 2016) November 21, 2016 Tags: photography new orleans travel photos Maybe it's healthier to embrace discomfort November 9, 2016 Tags: politics philosophy Quine and Heidegger: Against Reductionism October 19, 2016 Tags: philosophy Junk Food, Junk Politics, Junk TV, Junk Body, Junk Mind, Junk Truth October 13, 2016 Tags: politics rant philosophy Time for autumn adventures September 29, 2016 Tags: fall autumn Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) (Top 100 Films) July 6, 2016 Tags: film movies top 100 films comedy Photo assignment: Kyoto alleyways at night June 14, 2016 Tags: japan travel kyoto night culture photography night photography photo assignment Festival Parade Hadrah 2016 (Muslim parade in Solo, Indonesia) May 26, 2016 Tags: video travel indonesia Indonesia trip: the good, the bad, the ugly May 25, 2016 Tags: video travel indonesia The roads of Indonesia May 18, 2016 Tags: indonesia travel video Shinkansen trip from Kyoto to Sapporo May 18, 2016 Tags: japan travel photography Monju-e Ceremony in Nara (文殊会 興福寺) April 28, 2016 Tags: japan travel nara culture photography video Japan once again: update from the Banana House in Osaka April 19, 2016 Tags: japan travel photography video vlog 11 mile Big Basin hike February 2, 2016 Tags: hiking big basin photography nature Casablanca (1942) (Top 100 Films) January 26, 2016 Tags: film movies top 100 films drama romance war Schindler's List (1993) (Top 100 Films) January 26, 2016 Tags: film movies top 100 films biography drama history Ikiru (1952) (Top 100 Films) January 5, 2016 Tags: film movies top 100 films drama A Journey Through The Top 100 Films January 5, 2016 Tags: film movies top 100 films Big Basin October Hike October 27, 2015 Tags: hiking big basin photography nature Agile personals ad October 8, 2015 Tags: parody agile bullshit Quarter-life crisis, third-life crisis, mid-life crisis October 4, 2015 Tags: philosophy life Quick failed trip to Pinnacles National Park September 12, 2015 Tags: astronomy astrophotography night sky night pinnacles national park pinnacles national park The Coffee That Made the UFO Dance July 19, 2015 Tags: astronomy astrophotography night sky night yosemite national park A ride on Yosemite's Sugar Pine Railroad May 16, 2015 Tags: yosemite national park railroad travel Existential nights April 30, 2015 Tags: philosophy life Tourist season in Japan, and a brief escape to Cafe Rhinebeck in Kyoto April 29, 2015 Tags: japan travel cafe spring cherry blossoms sakura The Beatitudes March 9, 2015 Tags: the bible philosophy The surprising benefits of going to the gym March 2, 2015 Tags: exercise gym rant Living as driftwood January 3, 2015 Tags: philosophy new year rant My year in photos, part 2 (2014) December 31, 2014 Tags: photos photography travel california big bear lake mount shasta hawaii lake sabrina muir woods nara naruko gorge fossil falls year in photos My year in photos, part 1 (2014) December 16, 2014 Tags: photos photography travel california new orleans florida st augustine year in photos The City Is A Medium, The Medium Is The Message September 16, 2014 Tags: philosophy rant async.parallel with a simple timeout (node.js) September 8, 2014 Tags: node.js node javascript async webdev Milky Way galaxyrise from Maui September 7, 2014 Tags: photography travel hawaii maui astrophotography night photography What is AMD, CommonJS, and UMD? April 30, 2014 Tags: javascript amd commonjs webdev The mobile web is dead (and we have killed it) April 14, 2014 Tags: mobile web apps mobile web webdev Introducing Negative Scroll Blur (for browsers that support CSS filters) November 23, 2013 Tags: javascript demo webdev You Can't JavaScript Under Pressure walkthrough October 4, 2013 Tags: javascript programming webdev The Google Bitch September 24, 2013 Tags: rant Fourth of July letter to my government July 4, 2013 Tags: politics privacy rant NSA's PRISM: from the minds of conspiracy nuts, turns out to be reality June 7, 2013 Tags: rant privacy Quick style comparison of mobile image search sites May 10, 2013 Tags: mobile design webdev Kyoto Cherry Blossoms 2013 (京都の桜２０１３年) April 30, 2013 Tags: photography kyoto sakura travel Video: Spring in Kyoto (京都の春) April 15, 2013 Tags: video kyoto japan travel How to import imiwa? vocabulary lists directly into Anki (iOS, iPhone guide) February 27, 2013 Tags: japanese Japan: from miniature train to bullet train January 29, 2013 Tags: japan history Forms of Escapism December 8, 2012 Tags: philosophy rant A theory of leisure time, choice, and happiness October 19, 2012 Tags: philosophy life Descartes on building software frameworks October 2, 2012 Tags: philosophy programming The life of your parents' choosing September 15, 2012 Tags: rant life philosophy Thoughts on TrapWire August 11, 2012 Tags: politics privacy rant More fun with WebKit pseudoelements: -webkit-search-cancel-button (or: Pseudoclass Inception) August 10, 2012 Tags: css webkit pseudoelements webdev Initial thoughts on the Retina MacBook Pro (after a few minutes at the store) June 19, 2012 Tags: apple I think I'm learning Japanese: JLPT vocabulary words 1 to 50 (audio) May 28, 2012 Tags: japanese Response to 'What’s next for mobile now that adaptive design has failed?' May 23, 2012 Tags: mobile design webdev New direction (Developer Blog to Blog) May 6, 2012 Tags: life philosophy rant Why is Philosophy still important? May 6, 2012 Tags: philosophy Post a status update to the native Facebook app from a web link February 2, 2012 Tags: webdev Web development, Silicon Valley rant October 22, 2011 Tags: philosophy silicon valley rant iOS5 SunSpider: iPhone 4S vs iPhone 4 vs iPhone 3GS October 14, 2011 Tags: performance javascript mobile iphone webdev iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, and iPhone 3GS photo comparison October 14, 2011 Tags: mobile iphone webdev Mobile Performance Manifesto October 11, 2011 Tags: webdev mobile performance When to base64 encode images (and when not to) August 28, 2011 Tags: webdev performance Different ways of defining functions in JavaScript (this is madness!) June 24, 2011 Tags: javascript programming webdev On professional self-worth June 21, 2011 Tags: philosophy rant New Mobile Safari stuff in iOS5: position:fixed, overflow:scroll, new input type support, web workers, ECMAScript 5 June 7, 2011 Tags: ios mobile safari mobile webdev The incredibly painful way of getting an RSS feed of a Twitter list June 5, 2011 Tags: webdev Android 3.0 Honeycomb is first to implement the Device API February 24, 2011 Tags: javascript programming webdev android My O'Reilly Books Wishlist February 22, 2011 Tags: programming webdev Improving yourself as a programmer versus as a human being February 20, 2011 Tags: philosophy programming Checking for undefined, null, and empty variables in JavaScript February 11, 2011 Tags: javascript webdev programming A peek into Google's Jules Verne tribute (February 8, 2011) February 7, 2011 Tags: video webdev JavaScript SunSpider benchmark: iOS 4.3 vs iOS 4.0 January 22, 2011 Tags: javascript performance mobile ios webdev Notes: Mobile Web Design (Cameron Moll, 2007) January 21, 2011 Tags: mobile design webdev Implementing iPhone's slider unlock with input type='range' January 16, 2011 Tags: css iphone demo webdev JavaScript news resources January 14, 2011 Tags: javascript programming webdev What happens when you have no JavaScript fallback? January 12, 2011 Tags: javascript programming webdev How to spot outdated JavaScript January 7, 2011 Tags: javascript programming webdev What is a closure in JavaScript? January 3, 2011 Tags: javascript webdev Mobile JavaScript libraries and frameworks (Mobile Web Part 7) December 6, 2010 Tags: javascript mobile webdev programming What happens when we serve JavaScript with random MIME types? November 1, 2010 Tags: javascript webdev Top ten things HTML5 makes simpler October 7, 2010 Tags: async autofocus cache manifest charset defer doctype html5 localStorage placeholder sessionStorage video html webdev Does it still make sense to use em rather than px? October 5, 2010 Tags: em media queries mobile px JavaScript links from last week (September 26) October 5, 2010 Tags: javascript webdev programming links Mobile Monday: Best Practices for Mobile Design (September 20, 2010) September 21, 2010 Tags: mobile webdev Server side console.log September 15, 2010 Tags: javascript webdev Optimizing based on connection speed: using navigator.connection on Android 2.2+ September 14, 2010 Tags: javascript android webdev Basic HTML5 template September 8, 2010 Tags: html html5 webdev Dealing with device orientation (Mobile web part 6) August 24, 2010 Tags: javascript webdev mobile media queries orientation BlackBerry Torch SunSpider results (JavaScript benchmark) August 18, 2010 Tags: javascript performance mobile webdev blackberry sunspider webkit Is a hash faster than a Switch in JavaScript? August 17, 2010 Tags: javascript performance webdev android hash jsperf mobile safari switch Open Web Camp II at Stanford (July 17, 2010) July 17, 2010 Tags: webdev event A Visit From Flickr! July 16, 2010 Tags: flickr Friday links: mobile performance studies, the upcoming device element, and more (July 15) July 16, 2010 Tags: webdev programming Thursday links (July 8) July 8, 2010 Tags: css javascript mobile Targeting Internet Explorer (IE): the age-old struggle July 7, 2010 Tags: conditional comments hacks ie hack ie6 ie7 ie8 ie9 Using mobile-specific HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (Mobile web part 5) June 29, 2010 Tags: basejs blackberry.network blackberry.system capture api css gesture events html iui javascript jqtouch media queries mobile mozorientation orientationchange pastrykit touch events webkit xui iPhone 4 SunSpider test results (22% faster than iPhone 3GS) June 25, 2010 Tags: iphone iphone 4 performance sunspider javascript mobile webdev JavaScript SunSpider test: iOS 3.1.3 versus iOS 4 GM June 10, 2010 Tags: ios iphone sunspider javascript performance mobile webdev JavaScript SunSpider: HTC Evo versus HTC Incredible versus Nexus One June 10, 2010 Tags: htc evo htc incredible javascript mobile nexus one sunspider How to install obsolete Android Virtual Devices (AVDs) June 9, 2010 Tags: android avd emulator Mobile First: Luke Wroblewski on mobile design June 5, 2010 Tags: design mobile On designing a mobile webpage (Mobile web part 4) May 26, 2010 Tags: design mobile webdev Designing buttons that don't suck (Mobile web part 3) May 19, 2010 Tags: button testing usability webdev mobile The mobile developer's toolkit (Mobile web part 2) May 11, 2010 Tags: emulator simulator webdev mobile The viewport metatag (Mobile web part 1) May 6, 2010 Tags: handheldfriendly metatag mobile mobileoptimized viewport A Clockwork Box March 2, 2010 Tags: box model css webdev Links for the week of February 21, 2010 February 28, 2010 Tags: Links for the week of February 14, 2010 February 21, 2010 Tags: Overall iPhone browser traffic share is decreasing (Jan2009 to Jan2010) February 18, 2010 Tags: Links for the week of February 7, 2010 February 15, 2010 Tags: A primer on CSS colors December 29, 2009 Tags: color css hex rgb rgba web safe Video: John Resig - Testing, Performance Analysis, and jQuery 1.4 December 21, 2009 Tags: javascript john resig performance testing video yahoo webdev programming PastryKit: digging into an Apple Pie December 16, 2009 Tags: iphone iui jqtouch pastrykit JavaScript tidbit: special variables ($, $$, _, etc) December 8, 2009 Tags: $ $$ javascript jQuery _ Ways of passing data to functions in JavaScript December 4, 2009 Tags: beginner functions javascript webdev programming IEMobile 6/7 bug: classes and id not supported on the HTML element December 1, 2009 Tags: PHP: dealing with stuff that doesn't exist December 1, 2009 Tags: exists function_exists isset method_exists php Pitfalls of declaring variables in JavaScript November 18, 2009 Tags: javascript JavaScript Tidbit: Block scope with let September 15, 2009 Tags: 1.7 block scope javascript let JavaScript Tidbit: Shorthand Object Instantiation September 14, 2009 Tags: javascript john resig OO PHP Tidbit: Dead simple singleton September 14, 2009 Tags: php singleton IE Mobile 6.12 problem: browser ignores the specificity of CSS display styles August 31, 2009 Tags: 6.12 css display ie6 iemobile inline inline-block webdev ie internet explorer mobile Comments ©David Calhoun - Privacy - Terms