Simon Willison’s Weblog

GitHub: Announcing SVN Support. The best kind of April Fool’s joke: one that works. It’s read-only, but that’s good enough to support referencing GitHub repositories from SVN externals.

# 1st April 2010, 11:33 am / aprilfools, subversion, git, github

Classy Query. Beautifully implemented parody of class-based JavaScript and verbose namespacing as a jQuery extension, from John Resig. The source code has some neat tricks in it, in particular the buildClass() function.

# 1st April 2008, 9:48 am / john-resig, namespacing, jquery, javascript, parody, funny, aprilfools

The ThinkGeek 8-bit Tie. The April Fool’s Joke that attracted unprecedented customer demand is finally available to purchase for real.

# 6th October 2007, 12:27 am / aprilfools, 8bittie, clothing, thinkgeek