James Hague
@dadgumjames
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Occasionally I make something people are interested in.
Joined February 2014
I never added a link to it, but the Programming in the 21st Century static site generator is at
github.com
Programming in the 21st Century static site generator - dadgumjames/prog21
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I was recently asked about the first *home* game with a cinematic. Bugaboo (The Flea) from 1983 sometimes comes up. Astro Chase (1982) has intro and ending scenes. Anything earlier?.
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RT @jonhoo: Today the orange site reminded me of a neat article by @dadgumjames from many years ago that makes a point I think still holds….
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I periodically write command line tools that generate HTML. Every time, I think it would be great to redirect output directly to the browser instead of creating a file, but no.
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At some point I stopped customizing desktop backgrounds and just make them completely black.
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A UI feature that would save me time, but I haven't seen on anyone's radar: feedback that copy-to-clipboard actually occurred.
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The "premature" in "premature optimization" means "Before you fully understand the problem." This is also the loophole that makes it okay for a domain expert to sometimes optimize from the get-go.
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I spent much of the pandemic on a laptop, and now that I'm on a big monitor again I'm using smaller windows than I used to, with more programs visible at once. Resolution aside, feels like the ideal that early GUIs promoted.
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This book was the inspiration for "Halcyon Days: Interviews with Classic Computer and Video Game Programmers.".
In 1986, Susan Lammers of Microsoft Press published “Programmers at Work”, a collection of entertaining interviews with nineteen prominent programmers, including yours truly.
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When building a UI for entering an AM/PM time, don't default to one or the other. Force AM or PM to be chosen before the (for example) "SET ALARM" button is even availble.
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Over the years I've appreciated some principles of the Erlang/OTP team: focus is on large systems not microbenchmarks, slow consideration of changes, experimental ideas often set aside, language is kept clean even if some complexity is dealt with behind the scenes.
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The MONOSPACE JavaScript demo sets up a rendering context using 59 bytes of code, and it contains 2 things I didn't know about HTML5/JS.
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The last several months have made me realize how many small businesses can't update their own websites. New hours, adjusted lunch menus, COVID restrictions, all go on Facebook.
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This was fixed at some point–thanks @DuckDuckGo. The 2020 HTML version of the Giant List is now the top result, followed by a copy of the 1999 text file version.
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Sub-genre I stumbled upon in my stay-at-home reading: science fiction endorsed by @BarackObama.
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No more "failure looks like success" UX design, please. As in, I'm on the nuclear reactor control screen, and I touch SHUTDOWN, only I slightly miss, and the screen closes the same as if I hadn't. (More common example: closing an iOS Safari window.).
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Biggest change over the last decade in how I work: Anything with a visual/interactive/UX component I build a prototype in JavaScript (+ HTML) to show to people and start a discussion.
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Also when I was learning iPhone dev, I wrote an experimental casual game. It’s still in the App Store.
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