A blog of aggregated miscellanea and things I like uncovered from my daily travails. I'm @jacobjay, a peripatetic designer/developer of British persuasion, having interests in gastronomy, fashion, technology, interiors and sustainability. I'm currently living between New Delhi and France, working on a Lua web platform and e-commerce. I dig Macs, mountain biking and smelly cheese.
“ A programmer’s aspiration is to teach the machine to do as much of his job as possible so that he’ll have to do only the bits of work that cannot be done by the machine. ”
“ The idea that you could make a website and not know HTML blows my mind because it’s like building a building and not knowing what a brick is…You can be a CSS wizard or you can know the basics, but you should at least have some foundational knowledge of what your building material is. ”
Ryan Singer, 37 Signals Podcast #18 ‘Design roundtable.’ Via Signal vs. Noise.
“ if I use Lua and run into difficulties, my boss will think I am crazy. And if I use Microsoft and run into issues, that’s not a problem, because this happens every day ”
