Scott Andrew

A catalog of quirks and gotchas. Worth a quick read if you work in the JS space.

Posted May 25, 2017

"Remember: there is no such thing as a bad note, just a bad resolution."

Posted May 24, 2017

Tips from Ryan Estrada on how to hack your comics workflow.

Posted May 23, 2017

It occurs to me that by the time 90125 was released in 1983, the founding members of Yes were pushing 40 and now had to navigate this new thing called MTV. Jon Anderson's vocals sound so confident throughout Yes' recorded catalog, so it's strange to see him here not knowing what to do with his hands. Doesn't matter -- 90125 is still a great album.

Here's Yes in 1972, slaying on "Roundabout." How strange that only a decade separates these two very different incarnations of the same group:

Posted May 16, 2017

Currently on repeat on my Spotify playlist:

Posted May 5, 2017

The creators of This is Spinal Tap, the most influential mockumentary ever made, have been paid almost nothing due to "creative accounting":

In 2013, Harcourt advised [Harry] Shearer to ask Vivendi for a complete statement of his interests in This Is Spinal Tap. Harcourt combed through the material that came back, and her conclusions were so shocking that Shearer’s response was as unprintable as some of his band’s lyrics. According to Vivendi, Shearer and his three creative partners’ share of total worldwide merchandising income from 1984 to 2006 was $81, and the total income from soundtrack sales from 1989 to 2006 was $98. That’s just dollars, with no zeros at the end. It was Stonehenge all over again: They’d expected feet and got inches.

The co-creators -- Harry Shearer, Rob Reiner, Michael McKean and Christopher Guest -- are suing for 400 million.

Posted May 4, 2017

A Cuepoint writer flees to Vegas during Coachella to confront the harsh reality of age. But I admit that Vegas during Coachella sounds pretty sweet:

"For that night, every part of what one might want out of a live music experience was available: A critically-acclaimed artist playing her full set, a cloudless night, a gorgeous view of the peculiar neon beauty of the Las Vegas Strip, and as my local friends would remind me, copious amounts of alcohol. St. Vincent finishes, we head inside for a nightcap cocktail, and then I head back to my hotel room, only having to stand in one quick taxi line (rather than the mess of a festival parking lot) to do so."

Posted May 3, 2017

The key is obsessive planning.

Posted May 2, 2017

A nice tutorial on using Big O notation to express the time and space complexity of an algorithm, using sample code in different languages.

I've been brainstorming ideas for using Neat Hobby! to create fun illustrated guides to basic computer science concepts, like complexity, graph traversal, etc. As someone who's always struggled with the abstract concepts in math, I often wish I had a fun way to visualize these. I bet a lot of people who fell into web development from art and design backgrounds feel the same.

Posted April 28, 2017

"Every developer knows that the quickest and most efficient path to getting anything accomplished is to complain a lot and start from scratch."

Posted April 26, 2017