Saturday, July 24, 2004


Groovy Decor


Apple homepage snapshotA few weeks ago, I let loose a LazyWeb yawp, looking for an OS X tool that would allow me to build thumbnail images from websites, making use of Webkit.

Convention BloggersPaul Hammond has built such a beast, a Python script, webkit2png, that makes use of PyObjC to harness WebKit to the task.

I’m not certain what I’ll end up using it for, exactly, but it’s the sort of handy tool that ends up suggesting more and more uses for itself, just by sitting on your hard drive. Thanks, Paul!


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There was once a programmer who was attached to the court of the warlord Wu. The warlord asked the programmer: "Which is easier to design: an accounting package or an operating system?" "An operating system," replied the programmer. The warlord uttered an exclamation of disbelief. "Surely an accounting package is trivial next to the complexity of an operating system," he said. "Not so," said the programmer, "when designing an accounting package, the programmer operates as a mediator between people having different ideas: how it must operate, how its reports must appear, and how it must conform to tax laws. By contrast, an operating system is not limited by outward appearances. When designing an operating system, the programmer seeks the simplest harmony between machine and ideas. This is why an operating system is easier to design." The warlord of Wu nodded and smiled. "That is all good and well," he said, "but which is easier to debug?" The programmer made no reply. -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"