May 2013
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VimSpeak: Control Vim with Speech Recognition →
Now this is really interesting - a combination of open source technologies that allows you to control Vim with your speech.
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What are the best programming fonts? →
Compare Consolas vs Source Code Pro vs Inconsolata-g vs Monaco vs Ubuntu Mono vs Anonymous Pro vs DejaVu Sans Mono vs Envy Code R vs Menlo, and more.
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“I’m sick and tired of hearing about how you should be producing “content” to...”
– DHH on producing web content
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“If you think you’re as good as you’re ever going to be - you’re probably right.”
– Sergio Tapia Gutierrez
April 2013
18 posts
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Coding Horror: ASCII Pronunciation Rules for... →
Learn how to pronounce ^ right!
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Four Kitchens: One less JPG →
Sometimes when you optimize your website for size and speed you are faced with the dilemma which file to drop. JS is not the first place to look at, you can just drop an image for huge performance profits.
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Video: Level-Up Your WordPress Development Skills →
Tom speaks about leveling up your WordPress development skills through understanding the WordPress documentation, finding your niche, and educating yourself so you don’t have to run through the gam…
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“I will say, however, that it’s surreal to watch Instapaper — a product...”
– http://one37.net/blog/25/4/2013/instapaper-acquired-by-betaworks
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Forecast.io: It’s not a web app. It’s an app you... →
Forecast.io is really neat web app, showing there’re no boundaries in building native-like web applications. In this post they give some neat examples and tips how they’ve made one of the best weather apps out there.
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A Manager's Manifesto →
Julie Zhuo, product design director at Facebook shares her thoughts of better management through these 10 simple steps.
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Skulpt - Run Python code in your browser →
Yet another one crazy javascriptery.
Skulpt is pure client-side javascript implementation of Python.
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Sass and LESS Compared →
Personally I have no problems switching between LESS and Sass, but this is a nice document pointing out the exact differences between the two css pre-processors.
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“That’s one thing that the worlds of Irish music and the web have in common:...”
– Jeremy Keith
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Transitional Interfaces →
It seems crazy to me that more people don’t think about interfaces with respect to the dimension of time. Motion can provide so much information!
Animation is an important part of interface design, especially now when the trend is towards more minimal visual approach. Properly pushed pixels can give a nice finishing touch to any user interaction.
In Letterpress (an iOS word game by the mobile...
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TimeJump - Deep linking for Podcasts →
I wish more podcast networks adopt this technique.
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Vim Koans →
VIM is one of these tools that really pay off the time you spend learning it. It’s definitely hard at the very beginning, but as time pass you’ll find your own path of knowledge, because of its very personal nature.
This link is not the typical plugin or keystroke tips & tricks page, so take your time to read and reflect on these insightful stories.
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Responsive Nav - Javascript plugin for hamburger... →
Responsive navigation plugin without library dependencies and with fast touch screen support. Try it out by resizing this window.
This looks really nice.
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“Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc,...”
– Greenspun’s tenth rule
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Book: Learn Vimscript the Hard Way →
“Learn Vimscript the Hard Way” is a new book for mastering vim customisations and writing vim plugins by Steve Losh. Aside from the ebook and print versions, it is freely available for online reading on Steve’s website.
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“For a lot of people there exists this idea of going forward to something that...”
– Simon Collison talks perfection.
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Practical Tips From Top WordPress Pros →
Great collection of tips & tricks from the Wordpress community.
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What's an Entrepreneur? The Best Answer Ever →
By focusing on entrepreneurship as a process, his definition opened the term to all kinds of people. Plus, it matched the one demographic fact HBS researchers already knew about entrepreneurs—they were more likely to start out poor than rich. “They see an opportunity and don’t feel constrained from pursuing it because they lack resources,” says Stevenson. “They’re used to making do without...
March 2013
10 posts
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Learning Jekyll By Example: Build a Jekyll... →
I am going to rebuild my personal homepage with static site generator, so I choose Jekyll, because of how I love Ruby and the great community supporting it. This ebook is the best way for getting up and running, that I’ve found.
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“I used to believe that time was the most important thing I have, but I’ve come...”
– Adam Brault shares his thoughts on leaving Twitter.
Watch37signals’ Jason Fried gave a TED talk about working from home.
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iOS 6 switch style checkboxes with pure CSS →
Lea Verou demonstrates how to use CSS 3 to style a checkbox Apple-style.
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Ditching responsive design →
Everybody is proclaiming there’s no room for non-responsive websites anymore. Even now, when the mobile web is a huge part of how everyone connects to the Internet, it’s good to think about if the tools we’re using are the right ones for the context. That is why understanding and involving metrics and demographics in the design process are so great.
For example, we believe it...
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“…as a company we’re pouring all of our energy into fewer products. We...”
– Google on discontinuing Google Reader. It looks like they’re really doing it Steve Jobs’ way here.
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Optimize for happiness →
Github’s co-founder Tom Preston-Werner is sharing his thoughts on how to start a profitable company, while you keep doing whatmakes you happy.
The infrastructure components necessary to run an internet business are finally cheap enough that you can get started without a huge up-front investment. In the months that you would traditionally spend in glass-walled conference rooms you can now...
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“The determined Real Programmer can write FORTRAN programs in any language.”
– Ed Post, Real Programmers Don’t Use Pascal, 1982
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7 HTML5 Features That You May Not Know About →
I admit I didn’t knew these.
The first two are very useful: <input autofocus="autofocus" /> <a href="my.pdf" download="MyPDFReport">Download PDF</a>
February 2013
4 posts
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“I still have no engineering degree. Nor formal management training. I even...”
– Don Melton, the guy who started the Safari and Webkite projects at Apple.
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Presentation: Ruby 2.0 Walkthrough of the New... →
Ruby 2.0 is out and Peter Cooper has prepared a nice presentation of the key new features.
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The Price of You
Last month I stumbled on two very entertaining articles, that made me think for a while on the horrid theme of pricing a product or a service. To be honest almost every freelance project I choose to participate has different specs and set of conditions. So how to calculate the proper price? Jason Fried advises us to jump right in and set some sort of a price, rather than allowing the users to do...
January 2013
11 posts
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“Some mistakes are worth making. Don’t spoil them with regrets. Learn from them...”
– Lea Verou
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Releasing Outside the App Store →
Matt Gemmell talks about pros and cons of releasing Mac application outside the AppStore. Sure you’ll lose the benefits of no-cost hosting, easy upgrades and better exposure to potential customers, but is it worth the 30% Apple takes from you?
Matt explains the effort he took to overcome his fears about customer interactions and gives some examples of the tools you’ll need.
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GitHub's CSS Performance →
In these presentation slides Github share their tips and tricks for css optimization.
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Rails 4 Countdown to 2013 →
Remarkable Labs has a huge collection of posts, explaining the upcoming changes and improvements in Rails 4.
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Beautiful Web Type →
The sub-title explains it all “A showcase of the best typefaces from the Google web fonts directory”.
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“[Jeff Bezos] said people who were right a lot of the time were people who often...”
– Amazon founder Jeff Bezos visits 37signals and shares some wisdom, cautioning against the all-too-human fear of being wrong.
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“Installed base isn’t everything — if it was, we’d all be writing Windows apps.”
– Marco Arment comments about Magazines on Android.
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RailsCasts: What's New in Rails 4 →
Ryan Bates of RailsCasts fame demonstrates the new things in Rails 4.
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The Art of Quality →
David Lindkvist of 14islands drew some parallels between 1974’s bestseller “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” and modern day client work.
Pirsig argues that to truly experience quality one must both embrace and apply it as best fits the requirements of the situation. Such an approach would avoid a great deal of frustration and dissatisfaction common to modern life.
This is...
December 2012
18 posts
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Wrangle Async Tasks With JQuery Promises |... →
A Promise is an object that represents a one-time event, typically the outcome of an async task like an AJAX call. At first, a Promise is in a pending state. Eventually, it’s either resolved (meaning the task is done) or rejected (if the task failed). Once a Promise is resolved or rejected, it’ll remain in that state forever, and its callbacks will never fire again.
You can attach callbacks to...
