Oh don't get your panties all in a bunch. I take it as a personal statement not as a representative of YDN. I've sent a counter email to YDN that I wasn't really all that offended.
Paul is a jQuery core contributor and built a few particularly notable things like Modernizr which helps you test HTML5 features which are not yet fully supported in browsers.
That mouse-tracking canvas stuff in the background of his blog is pretty cool. I didn't notice it until it tracked my mouse pointer from the text to the tab bar.
Also good for pegging one CPU, in the quad-core Linux machine I'm using (Firefox 3.5). At least it skips around the cores.
I think I'll miss Flash in the near future (especially the part of not having a Flash plug-in). I'm afraid the 'blink' tag is back, and packing some heat ...
To all the haters, paul_irish has been consistently one of the most helpful people in #jquery on freenode, and I'm so happy for him. If he's the one who's going to be writing HTML5 documentation for Chrome, then that's EXCELLENT news for developers, because I know from personal experience that he has a very friendly and intelligent way of communicating.
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Vote me to the front page.
He also does the yayquery podcast.
Soon to be followed by "pirate", I expect, if this goes on ...
(The LI blog also graphs evangelist-vs-guru; the latter is on the outs. No units in either graph.)
How bout Twilio? I'm sure Twilio's trying to actively waste money
http://twilio.jobscore.com/jobs/twilio/developerevangelist/a...
I think I'll miss Flash in the near future (especially the part of not having a Flash plug-in). I'm afraid the 'blink' tag is back, and packing some heat ...