I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.
The blog here at dsandler.org is mostly historical; you can find more recent posts on Google+.
Traffic Fight! Matt “WordPress” Mullenweg discovers that Alexa will let you compare the popularity of multiple websites over time. You can use this technique to assess Linux distributions or wacky news and Photoshop sites or your favorite dead operating system … as long as the websites you’re interested in are in the top 100K. (Interesting: Be and PalmSource play in roughly the same ballpark.)
Hill’s Science Diet is supposed to be one of the better commonly-available pet foods, but Cool Tools recommends natural pet foods from Wysong. They’re not inflated, full of “junk” meat, or sprayed with fat to make tasty an otherwise unpalatable product.
I’ve never attempted one of Scott McCloud’s 24 Hour Comics challenges before, but I really might dare in 2005.
With all due respect to the Subversion folks, many of whom appear from over here to be very good hackers, I realized that they had completely blown it. Subversion is a dog. It’s a horrible, horrible design based on a few very good ideas. It’s hard, I think, for casual observers to recognize the problems with Subversion given the good ideas it contains, the high skill level of the developers, and the good job of project management they do, but the problems were enough to prevent me from just asking to join the Subversion project.
As seen on Slashdot: Tom Lord interviewed. (The rest of the interview isn’t as inflammatory as this passage, but it is as thought-provoking.) He’s the guy behind GNU arch—yes, that arch.
“School is probably the only place where you can actually feel hungry
just from studying for a while.” —Blair