maetl

A brief history of maetl

The Bay

1st September 2010 (essel)

A Stop Motion Story

5th July 2010 (essel)

Wrangelkiez Walking Tour

5th July 2010 (essel)

Social Signaling in Connective Words

25th June 2010 (essel)

Floating Farms on Inner City Waterways

25th June 2010 (essel)

Fun is no longer a priority

23rd June 2010 (essel)

On Editing

23rd June 2010 (essel)

Some People Say Weasel Words Are Great

10th June 2010 (essel)

Why I No Longer Work for the Man

31st May 2010 (essel)

Most Programmers Are Stupid

30th May 2010 (essel)

Will Diaspora Fail?

26th May 2010 (essel)

Black or White

25th May 2010 (essel)

Cheek By Jowl

14th May 2010 (essel)

A Simple Model for Sharing

14th May 2010 (essel)

We Made You

11th May 2010 (hype)

Our Emergent Panopticon

10th May 2010 (essel)

The City as a Whole

10th May 2010 (essel)

Creative Space

9th May 2010 (essel)

Privacy is a Distraction

8th May 2010 (essel)

The No Logo Decade

5th May 2010 (essel)

Andy Warhol paints Debbie Harry on an Amiga

5th May 2010 (essel)

The Shock of the Now

1st May 2010 (our-kitchen-sink)

Unsolicited Architecture

28th April 2010 (essel)

Clusters and Flows of Data: The Twitter Way

19th April 2010 (essel)

Our New Feudal Overlords

19th April 2010 (essel)

Prospects for Paper Architecture

14th April 2010 (essel)

Changing The Future of Reading

12th April 2010 (essel)

Reconsuming Ideals

22nd March 2010 (essel)

The Committee To Save The World

22nd March 2010 (essel)

Complexity and Unit Testing

20th March 2010 (essel)

Disintegrating Digg

15th March 2010 (essel)

Livecoding the musical apocalypse

12th March 2010 (essel)

All Your Apps Are Belong To Us

10th March 2010 (essel)

Experiment Driven Development

3rd March 2010 (essel)

Mad Lib Forms

1st March 2010 (essel)

The worst condition

1st March 2010 (essel)

Fundamentally inconsistent

22nd February 2010 (essel)

One way or another

22nd February 2010 (essel)

Social Traction

19th February 2010 (essel)

On The Shoulders of Giants

18th February 2010 (essel)

Domestic Robocop

17th February 2010 (essel)

The Recovery Approach

17th February 2010 (essel)

Incentives Invite Abuse

16th February 2010 (essel)

A do-it-yourself affair

15th February 2010 (essel)

To Be a Philosopher

14th February 2010 (essel)

Gross Domestic Pathologies

10th February 2010 (essel)

Both useful and meaningful?

10th February 2010 (essel)

Apostrophes Illustrate Changing Language

10th February 2010 (essel)

Waking Dreams

9th February 2010 (essel)

Game Changing

8th February 2010 (essel)

Supremely Corporate

4th February 2010 (essel)

Programming Again

27th January 2010 (essel)

Apple and America

27th January 2010 (essel)

The Case of the Midnight Note

22nd January 2010 (essel)

Picture-driven programming

20th January 2010 (essel)

“He’s like Batman”

17th January 2010 (essel)

What is Missing from Modern Programming Languages?

16th January 2010 (essel)

Mapping the Global Shipping Network

15th January 2010 (essel)

Eye on Berlin

9th January 2010 (essel)

Random Textmate Buffer

8th January 2010 (essel)

Counting Accented Vowels

6th January 2010 (essel)

Un-favrd

7th December 2009 (essel)

Multiple Selves

2nd December 2009 (essel)

Concrete Hallucinations

30th November 2009 (essel)

The November

30th November 2009 (essel)

Real Learning

24th November 2009 (essel)

Where a carrot is never just a carrot

24th November 2009 (essel)

Volume and Value

20th November 2009 (essel)

Data or Design?

28th October 2009 (essel)

Windows into the Mind

26th October 2009 (essel)

The Forgotten History of Timezones

25th October 2009 (essel)

Berlin Twitter Wall

25th October 2009 (kreuz)

Every frickin’ band on the planet

24th October 2009 (essel)

Ascii Art Diagrams

24th October 2009 (essel)

Machiavelli and the Moon

16th October 2009 (essel)

Horizons of the New Berlin

15th October 2009 (essel)

Updating Ideas

8th October 2009 (essel)

Because it's Unix

8th October 2009 (essel)

The Decline of American Civility

19th September 2009 (essel)

Signs, Sigils, and Syntax

17th September 2009 (essel)

Defining Noncommercial

15th September 2009 (essel)

Hacking Swine Flu

6th September 2009 (essel)

The Difference Between Parkour and Freerunning

3rd September 2009 (essel)

Riprap

1st September 2009 (origin)

Punctuation Hero or Vandal?

31st August 2009 (essel)

Software Design Folklore

31st August 2009 (essel)

Iterating Short Texts

30th August 2009 (essel)

The Tragedy of the Von Erich Family

27th August 2009 (cracked)

Kreuzberg Kosmonaut

26th August 2009 (hype)

The Walls of Schlesische Straße

23rd August 2009 (kreuz)

Why? Oh _why?

22nd August 2009 (revo)

Smack Some Sense Into Them

22nd August 2009 (essel)

Only Magic to Those with Inadequate Understanding

21st August 2009 (essel)

Facism in the USA

14th August 2009 (cracked)

In Berlin

8th August 2009 (essel)

Exit Entwicklung!

16th July 2009 (essel)

Flocks of Black Swans

9th July 2009 (cracked)

High Value Detainee #1

8th July 2009 (essel)

The MTV Redesign

8th July 2009 (hype)

The End of Economics

5th July 2009 (scientific-revolution)

Becoming Cyclic

4th July 2009 (essel)

You Are Not Innovating

3rd July 2009 (essel)

Rap Confronting the Record Biz

1st July 2009 (revo)

Independence: Making Money From Music

26th June 2009 (essel)

Respecting Creativity?

25th June 2009 (essel)

Wink of a Cold War

23rd June 2009 (essel)

Alice and Kev

19th June 2009 (essel)

Algorithms Should Not Be Patented

16th June 2009 (essel)

Get Well: Chris Knox

16th June 2009 (essel)

Rands Hits a Home-Run

16th June 2009 (essel)

Sampling Twitter

9th June 2009 (essel)

The Seduction of Maps

7th June 2009 (essel)

Robots & Visual Programmers

7th June 2009 (essel)

Kaboom!

6th June 2009 (essel)

Code is Not Inevitable

1st June 2009 (essel)

Gateway Drugs are Abject Nonsense

31st May 2009 (essel)

Cultivating Done

28th March 2009 (essel)

Undocumenting PHP: URL Handling in SilverStripe

16th March 2009 (essel)

Public Servitude

10th March 2009 (essel)

What Me?

8th March 2009 (essel)

Blacked Out

23rd February 2009 (essel)

Sinking Entrepreneurship

30th January 2009 (essel)

Words Per Day

28th January 2009 (essel)

Social Media Douchebags

24th January 2009 (essel)

Evolution of a Singular Global Intelligence

20th January 2009 (essel)

Siphoning the Here and Now

18th January 2009 (essel)

2009 Directions

13th January 2009 (essel)

The Best Blog Posts of 2008

20th December 2008 (origin)

Creative Freedom Foundation - For Fair Copyright Reform in NZ

18th December 2008 (origin)

Backlash Against Net Filter

12th December 2008 (origin)

The Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement

8th December 2008 (origin)

The Only Accurate Metaphor in Software Development

3rd December 2008 (origin)

The War of Perception

1st December 2008 (origin)

How Do Committees Invent?

16th November 2008 (origin)

The Landscape of Computing

14th November 2008 (origin)

Understanding Uncertainty

13th November 2008 (origin)

Closing Loops

3rd November 2008 (origin)

Hip Hop: Imagining a Future

13th October 2008 (origin)

Learning to Read Code

2nd October 2008 (origin)

Ridiculous Moments in Code

19th September 2008 (origin)

Wiki Golf

17th September 2008 (origin)

Incorporeality Renewed

1st September 2008 (origin)

In my craft or sullen art

1st September 2008 (origin)

Undocumenting PHP: Harnessing Simpletest

29th August 2008 (origin)

Silverstripe behind the scenes at the DNC

28th August 2008 (origin)

People-Power and the Mythic Man Month

26th August 2008 (origin)

Ambient Oriented Programming

25th August 2008 (origin)

Adult Proof Messaging for Teens

24th August 2008 (origin)

The Axes of Parsing

19th August 2008 (origin)

Orwell the blogger

15th August 2008 (origin)

Hovering Intently

14th August 2008 (origin)

The problem with PHP

3rd August 2008 (origin)

What is least surprising?

29th July 2008 (origin)

The Stress Addiction Loop

28th July 2008 (origin)

Startups and the Future of Journalism

20th July 2008 (origin)

Biofuel Backlash

13th July 2008 (origin)

Meine Hübsche Fliegen

8th July 2008 (origin)

Linking 2D maps and 3D reality

21st June 2008 (origin)

Choking the Ocean: The Pacific Trash Vortex

16th June 2008 (origin)

Improving Architecture with Testable Code

30th May 2008 (origin)

Equity, Autonomy, and the Asymmetry of Attention

26th May 2008 (origin)

Bringing out the worst in people...

23rd May 2008 (origin)

Nuclear Italia

23rd May 2008 (origin)

FilmFriend & the 48HOURS

19th May 2008 (origin)

A True Intellectual

30th April 2008 (origin)

De Vernietiging van April

15th April 2008 (origin)

How Ideas Emerge as Products

16th March 2008 (origin)

Connect Horokiwi!

27th February 2008 (origin)

Ornette Coleman, Live in Wellington

23rd February 2008 (origin)

An Uphill Battle

23rd February 2008 (origin)

Unexpected Structure

21st February 2008 (origin)

Webstock 08 Wrap

20th February 2008 (origin)

Webstock 08: The Transforming Web

20th February 2008 (origin)

Webstock 08: The Age of Frameworks

20th February 2008 (origin)

Webstock 08: Good Design Ain't Easy

20th February 2008 (origin)

Introducing Historiographica

18th February 2008 (origin)

Here comes Webstock

11th February 2008 (origin)

Freeing the Internet in Wellington

11th February 2008 (origin)

Starting with SilverStripe

3rd February 2008 (origin)

Crease Geometry

31st January 2008 (origin)

A quick and dirty language...

30th January 2008 (origin)

One size doesn't fit all

23rd January 2008 (origin)

Frameworks and Seedworks

18th January 2008 (origin)

Cubicide

12th January 2008 (origin)

A Utopia Without Ideals

11th January 2008 (origin)

2008 Directions

7th January 2008 (origin)

On Refactoring

7th January 2008 (origin)

The Missing Literary Traditions of Programming

6th January 2008 (origin)

Escaping the equality conundrum

4th January 2008 (origin)

Can Human Development be Agile?

12th December 2007 (origin)

Closed Social

10th December 2007 (origin)

Going Bedouin

6th December 2007 (origin)

Strongly Connected Components in Ruby

28th November 2007 (origin)

Outage (27th Nov)

27th November 2007 (origin)

The True Scope is Unknowable

23rd November 2007 (origin)

Creative Commons NZ Jurisdiction (Now Live!)

21st November 2007 (origin)

Pay Me For Content

21st November 2007 (origin)

Training advice for entrepreneurs

19th November 2007 (origin)

Carmack on positive brand experiences

18th November 2007 (origin)

Domicile Terrorisme Aotearoa

17th November 2007 (origin)

Coding Diversity

15th November 2007 (origin)

The Tragedy of Hip

15th November 2007 (origin)

Controlling Online Procrastination

8th November 2007 (origin)

Robot Boats Mean More War Business

8th November 2007 (origin)

When a language is only as good as its tools

8th November 2007 (origin)

Ongoing on China

7th November 2007 (origin)

Membrane Oriented Programming

4th November 2007 (origin)

Hypercommunications and Free Energy

4th November 2007 (origin)

Shocking the Rock Jock

3rd November 2007 (origin)

Overloading the MQL Acronym

3rd November 2007 (origin)

Post Facto Obsequiousness

23rd October 2007 (origin)

Undocumenting PHP: Static Late Binding

19th October 2007 (origin)

Common Websense

15th October 2007 (origin)

New Zealand Design Review

15th October 2007 (origin)

Room for improvement: Women in OSS

9th October 2007 (origin)

Where are the women in open source?

9th October 2007 (origin)

Complacence Will Destroy You

3rd October 2007 (origin)

Council Elections Again

2nd October 2007 (origin)

Another blow to Net Neutrality

1st October 2007 (origin)

OLPC in Peru

29th September 2007 (origin)

Method Missing?

24th September 2007 (origin)

Google set to grab mass election audience

19th September 2007 (origin)

Indie is the norm, not the exception (now)

19th September 2007 (origin)

Ponoko Goes Public

18th September 2007 (origin)

E-Government Bar Camp Wrap

17th September 2007 (origin)

Local government for a connected world

14th September 2007 (origin)

Lessons learned from FullCodePress

12th September 2007 (origin)

A Ship in a Bottle

1st September 2007 (origin)

Py3000

1st September 2007 (origin)

Shiny Shoes

31st August 2007 (origin)

Escaping the Self Denial Instinct

31st August 2007 (origin)

Software is not made of Bricks

30th August 2007 (origin)

10 LET M EQ MIND ROT 20 GOTO 10

29th August 2007 (origin)

Underground in Canada

29th August 2007 (origin)

Putting Python and Django on the iPhone

24th August 2007 (origin)

MCS Week of Code

22nd August 2007 (origin)

Code Blacks are FullCodePress Champions

20th August 2007 (origin)

Ready To Go!

17th August 2007 (origin)

FullCodePrevise

17th August 2007 (origin)

Is PHP Doomed?

15th August 2007 (origin)

Seasonal Peturbations

10th August 2007 (origin)

Running multiple hosts on OS X

20th July 2007 (origin)

High Bypass Ratio Pond Scum

18th July 2007 (origin)

Java Chases Its Tail Calls

16th July 2007 (origin)

Building a Treemap Reporter for SimpleTest

13th July 2007 (origin)

Redefining Computing

12th July 2007 (origin)

The Myth of The Next Big Language

12th July 2007 (origin)

PHP4 No More

11th July 2007 (origin)

Ahm gunna Australia

11th July 2007 (origin)

Pandora's Alertbox

10th July 2007 (origin)

FullCodePress Selection

5th July 2007 (origin)

The Three Swans

31st May 2007 (origin)

Away

22nd May 2007 (origin)

Human Area Networks

27th April 2007 (origin)

CSS Is Unmaintainable

19th April 2007 (origin)

TVNZgnorance

17th April 2007 (origin)

Twitter The Wave

11th April 2007 (origin)

Undocumenting PHP: It's about Time

3rd April 2007 (origin)

The Promise of Perfect Symmetry

22nd March 2007 (origin)

Helen meets George

22nd March 2007 (origin)

Charting Change over Time

21st March 2007 (origin)

Running multiple virtual hosts under Apache on Windows XP

20th March 2007 (origin)

maetl_

16th March 2007 (origin)

Oh Shit

15th March 2007 (origin)

The Difference Between Programming and Software Development?

3rd October 2006 (origin)

Putting Women in their Place

25th September 2006 (origin)

Rethinking Persistence

22nd September 2006 (origin)

Scaling for the Masses

20th September 2006 (origin)

The Greatest Story Ever Sold

19th September 2006 (origin)

March of the Straw Men and the Language Ecosystem

15th September 2006 (origin)

The Unremitting Voice of Nightly Streams

1st September 2006 (origin)

Culture of Segregation

17th August 2006 (origin)

Xbox Live and the YouTube for Video Games

14th August 2006 (origin)

Bubble Spike?

14th August 2006 (origin)

Do We Construct Nature?

13th August 2006 (origin)

A Real Knowledge Economy

9th August 2006 (origin)

Pink's Hand Style

4th August 2006 (origin)

Blue Sky Mining

26th July 2006 (origin)

Crying Sculpture

22nd July 2006 (origin)

Still Life with Typewriter

21st July 2006 (origin)

The problem with CSS dropdown menus

19th July 2006 (origin)

Multimathematical Immaterialities

18th July 2006 (origin)

Narrative Action

13th July 2006 (origin)

Thoughts of a Lonely Programmer

13th July 2006 (origin)

Where the f**k have you been?

4th July 2006 (origin)

On Mirrors and Bridges

29th June 2006 (origin)

Error Correction and Scientific Progress

14th June 2006 (origin)

The Architecture of Happiness

27th May 2006 (origin)

Webstuck

16th May 2006 (origin)

A Particularly Bad Moment

28th April 2006 (origin)

Obsessive Geometric Abstraction

19th April 2006 (origin)

Trying to tell me something?

25th March 2006 (origin)

Thinking Beyond Java

24th March 2006 (origin)

A Pattern Language for Moderation

11th March 2006 (origin)

Dohpacity

8th March 2006 (origin)

Emerging Technology 06

7th March 2006 (origin)

Passive Consumers?

23rd February 2006 (origin)

Kiwi Prejudice?

15th February 2006 (origin)

Just Chemicals

5th February 2006 (origin)

Resource Dissonance Format

2nd February 2006 (origin)

Porn Attention Data

31st January 2006 (origin)

Botany Downs

31st January 2006 (origin)

You are the 4th most loathsome person in America

28th January 2006 (origin)

Quantum People

28th January 2006 (origin)

Google Web Authoring Survey

26th January 2006 (origin)

OGLE

25th January 2006 (origin)

Higher Order Primitives in PHP (and more...)

21st January 2006 (origin)

New Zealand in Ten Movies or Less

19th January 2006 (origin)

Best Pick Up Line (A True Story)

4th January 2006 (origin)

Contradictions, Conspiracies, and Cultural Logic

16th December 2005 (origin)

Tag-a-long

8th December 2005 (origin)

Google and Link Relationships

27th November 2005 (origin)

Youth Gangs and Assumptions About Culture

10th November 2005 (origin)

Keep On Runnin

7th November 2005 (origin)

Ignorance of Open Source

28th October 2005 (origin)

More questions than answers

18th October 2005 (origin)

The Politics of Personal Destruction

4th October 2005 (origin)

XHTML Design Patterns

3rd October 2005 (origin)

Zen and the Art of Template Engines

25th September 2005 (origin)

How Microformats are Different

25th September 2005 (origin)

Left Out

22nd September 2005 (origin)

Plotting Deviations

20th September 2005 (origin)

Baldfaced Election Bribes

11th September 2005 (origin)

Null Policies

8th September 2005 (origin)

Too close to call?

8th September 2005 (origin)

Howling arrays of wolves

6th September 2005 (origin)

Louisiana flies

5th September 2005 (origin)

Clouds

1st September 2005 (origin)

Web Deux Pointe Zero

31st August 2005 (origin)

National Billboards

31st August 2005 (origin)

Hoodlum Scripting

27th August 2005 (origin)

Negative Space

27th August 2005 (origin)

I really thought it was over

23rd August 2005 (origin)

Entity Relational Diagrams in HTML

21st August 2005 (origin)

Making Aotearoa New Zealand's Government Transparent

11th August 2005 (origin)

You Get What You Pay For

9th August 2005 (origin)

Going Backwards

9th August 2005 (origin)

On Semantic HTML

5th August 2005 (origin)

Consistency and Completeness

3rd August 2005 (origin)

Quit Smoking

23rd July 2005 (origin)

More Bombs

23rd July 2005 (origin)

Mandatory Greasemonkey Update

20th July 2005 (origin)

Dreamweaver Sux

20th July 2005 (origin)

TardMe

16th July 2005 (origin)

The better of circumstance

10th July 2005 (origin)

The sound of the wheel turning full circle

3rd July 2005 (origin)

G8Reboot

24th June 2005 (origin)

NZ: Remote Tagging and Reverse Relationships

18th June 2005 (origin)

Digital Textile Portfolios

15th June 2005 (origin)

Accidental Enhancement in IE

13th June 2005 (origin)

do.del.icio.us

12th June 2005 (origin)

Userscripts in IE

8th June 2005 (origin)

Mixing Semantic Vocabularies and Basic English

6th June 2005 (origin)

Only Send What You Need

5th June 2005 (origin)

Asynchronous Representational State Transfer

4th June 2005 (origin)

Wireframes of Reference

2nd June 2005 (origin)

Media politics and idiotic behaviour in classrooms

18th May 2005 (origin)

The standard is rising

12th May 2005 (origin)

Multicolumn Layouts in CSS

3rd May 2005 (origin)

Mayday

1st May 2005 (origin)

The Original Technologist

30th April 2005 (origin)

Writers Block

14th April 2005 (origin)

Four reasons...

31st March 2005 (origin)

Bifurcation and Biodiversity

28th March 2005 (origin)

Who has poisoned the sea?

9th March 2005 (origin)

Ajax and UX

21st February 2005 (origin)

Disputing Anomalies

16th February 2005 (origin)

How many words is a picture worth?

15th February 2005 (origin)

Welcome back

14th February 2005 (origin)

Patterns of Flow and Responsive UI Design

2nd December 2004 (origin)

Whos' America?

8th November 2004 (origin)

Shuffle

8th November 2004 (origin)

Belted with the bible

4th November 2004 (origin)

How many Bush administration officials does it take to change a light bulb?

23rd October 2004 (origin)

Back to the Ark?

17th October 2004 (origin)

Nuclear Weapons are Morally Indefensible

15th October 2004 (origin)

Recollections and New Directions

4th October 2004 (origin)

Perils and Patterns in the Search for Perfection

3rd October 2004 (origin)

Snow storm on canvass

27th September 2004 (origin)

Style Object Stew

21st September 2004 (origin)

Matapihi

12th September 2004 (origin)

Ethical Implosion

11th September 2004 (origin)

Extracting Tabular Data from HTML Tables

10th September 2004 (origin)

Incunabula: Design Notes

3rd September 2004 (origin)

Incorporeal Transformations

1st September 2004 (origin)

Alphabets

1st September 2004 (origin)