"Closure Compiler, Closure Library, Closure Templates, and Closure Inspector all started as 20% projects and hundreds of Googlers have contributed thousands of patches. Today, each Closure Tool has grown to be a key part of the JavaScript infrastructure behind web apps at Google. That's why we're particularly excited (and humbled) to open source them to encourage and support web development outside Google."
- Greg Veen
"These charts show movie character interactions. The horizontal axis is time. The vertical grouping of the lines indicates which characters are together at a given time."
- Greg Veen
"A concept-map exploring the Left vs Right political spectrum. A collaboration between David McCandless and information artist Stefanie Posavec, taken from my book The Visual Miscellaneum (out Nov 10th)."
- Greg Veen
"Summing up: Only use @font-face is you’re absolutely certain you need it. If you have multiple font files, consider sharding them across multiple domains. Don’t include unused @font-face declarations - IE will download them whether they’re used or not. Gzip the font files and give them a future Expires header. Consider lazy loading the font files, at least in IE."
- Greg Veen
"Summing up: Only use @font-face is you’re absolutely certain you need it. If you have multiple font files, consider sharding them across multiple domains. Don’t include unused @font-face declarations - IE will download them whether they’re used or not. Gzip the font files and give them a future Expires header. Consider lazy loading the font files, at least in IE."
- Greg Veen
"Bagheera kiplingi, a South American species, lives almost exclusively on leaf buds and is thought to be the only spider of about 40,000 species to have rejected a carnivorous diet."
- Greg Veen
Successful babysitting session. Yes, there was crying (not me, the kid), and a diaper change (again, the kid's), but everything worked out!