HelloWorld.show()
An invitational exhibition of source code. Site by Shaun Inman, featuring the Replica typeface from LineTo.
jQuery Delay
A tiny plugin to add a delay between jQuery functions. In the past I’ve resorted to JavaScript’s setTimeout method, or faked a delay using jQuery’s animate method with identical start and end values. This might be better.
Sifter
Bug and issue tracking web application, just launched.
At a staff meeting in the summer of 2006, [CEO Reed] Hastings suggested a radical idea: Why not have a public contest? Netflix’s recommendation system was powered by the wisdom of crowds; now it would tap the wisdom of crowds to get better too.
— The New York Times’s Clive Thompson has a fascinating write-up on the US$1 million prize offered by Netflix to any programmer that can improve its recommendations engine by 10%, and the Napolean Dynamite problem that’s making it hard work. (via Patrick Wang)
A visualisation of SVN commits to the Vimeo codebase since February 2007. The site recently hit a milestone of a million plays in a 24 hour period. (via Jakob Lodwick)
Processing in JavaScript
And speaking of John Resig, he’s ported the Processing visualization language to JavaScript, using the Canvas element. Yeah.
