February 2014
February 27, 2014
February 25, 2014
February 24, 2014
- The longest garden path joke about women drivers. From Reginald D. Hunter. #
- The Final Member. Trailer to an, ahem, odd Vice documentary. #
- Why you can’t dismiss IE8…. The browser version still accounts for 7–10% of all users. #
- "Hemingway" on Hemingway. A funny takedown of the Hemingway app, which tries -- in a rather simplistic way -- to help you make your writing clear and understandable. #
February 21, 2014
- Linda Liukas's tips on running a successful Kickstarter campaign. Hello Ruby, a children's book on technology raised $100K in 24 hours. #
February 20, 2014
- Saturday Sun: The Walls. Saw a subset of this band last night at Karamel Club. Really liked this song. Must admit, they're not always this downtempo. They blew the heads off the audience, as Chris Sheehan put it. #
February 19, 2014
- News from Sweden: Introducing Siri 2.0. A font with multiple stylistic sets. #
- Parsing dates and times in Ruby and Rails. Using the Chronic gem. #
- microformats 2. There's a version two? Go figure. #
- How we do email at Makeshift. #
February 18, 2014
- Leading at the code-face. @stef's thoughts on the demands of leading versus coding at a start-up. #
- Lea Verou: What makes speakers happy. #
- Capgras delusion. A disorder in which a person holds a delusion that a person close to them has been replaced by an identical-looking impostor. #
- Tim Berners-Lee: we need to re-decentralise the web. #
- How the chain stitch works. I find it fascinating when I come across obscure(-ish) things that people are passionate about. Denimheads, who'd of thought? #
- Hemming denim with a Union Special. #
- American businesses are holding credit card security back. On a related note, during a recent trip to Rotterdam, I found that while most places accept card payments, they only seemed to accept local debit cards, and no credit cards or foreign debit cards. Surprising for a modern, North European country. #
- deepsadness.com. Strange and entrancing. By Rafaël Rozendaal. #
February 11, 2014
February 10, 2014
February 3, 2014
- Ignorance. Benedict Evans on why understanding disruptive businesses is so hard to get right. #
- Breaking Madden: The Super Bowl, in which the machine bleeds to death. Lyrical and disquietingly prescient. #
February 2, 2014
- Dear America, I saw you naked. Confessions of an ex-TSA agent. #
