March 2014
March 29, 2014
March 27, 2014
March 24, 2014
- Ten Ruby on Rails best practices. #
- Simple stack effects. Very nice collection of transitions. #
March 23, 2014
- The Verge: FireChat lets you text friends, even without a signal. Really excited about the potential of ad-hoc mesh networks springing up via mobile devices. #
March 21, 2014
- Scott Hanselman Fluent 2014 keynote "Virtual Machines, JavaScript and Assembler " - YouTube. #
- What’s next for Makeshift? A startup's three-month, make-or-break-it plan, boldly published for the world to see. #
March 20, 2014
- Fog Creek Blog: Girls go geek… again! "[Hanna Wallach] ... said that one of the things that happens is that women don’t even think they’re qualified for something because it’s advertised in competitive language. The language of competition not only doesn’t appeal to many women, it actually puts them off. Google advertises their Summer of Code with very competitive language. In 2006, GNOME received almost two hundred GSoC applicants – all male. When GNOME advertised an identical program for women, but emphasizing the opportunities for mentorship and learning, they received over a hundred highly qualified female applicants for the three spots they were able to fund. Honestly, when you hear the phrase 'the world’s best developers,' you see a guy. And, for women, that can be alienating." #
March 19, 2014
March 17, 2014
- NY Times: Silicon Valley’s youth problem. #
- LA Times: Somehow, some way, subway. This 2007 article contrasts Shanghai's and Los Angeles's metro systems. #
March 14, 2014
- Chris Dixon: The next big thing will start out looking like a toy. Reminds me of one of the identifiers of "weak signals" in future studies. #
- Hunter Walk: Why I don’t ask “is this a billion dollar business” before I invest. #
- Where Lean startups and design thinking meet. #
- Of a Kind profiles Eayrslee. #
- Vice: How sad young douchebags took over modern Britain. #
- Content for 'the YouTube generation': Experiments at a Belgium broadcaster. #
March 13, 2014
- FastCo: How to nab a job using LinkedIn's "Who's Viewed Your Profile". After the release of the redesigned feature, one user was able to predict that his company was going to get bought. #
- The Little Book of IDEO: Values. #
- Ballad of a wifi hero. #
- Is TLS fast yet? "TLS has exactly one performance problem: it is not used widely enough. Everything else can be optimized." #
- SXSW: Only 371 days and counting. Sophia Amin's notes on SXSW 2014. #
- Visions of a post-agile world. Spright.ly CEO Joe Stump on doing away with sprints in agile. #
- Joe Stump: Couples counseling for software development. Interesting points on different disciplines working together. The slides advocate "non-blocking development," which, as far as I understand, means doing away with sprints and releasing feature branches immediately using continuous delivery. #
- My Pub Odyssey: Prince Of Wales. Funny review of the pub closest to the office that we _never_ go to. Pro tip: visit the Earl of Essex. And I'm not telling you the pub we do frequent -- it's too busy already. #
March 5, 2014
- Los Angeles Magazine: Downfall. The incredible story of the rise and fall of Sheriff Lee Baca and his number two, Paul Tanaka. Breathtakingly reported, an excellent long read. #
- The sound of Philadelphia fades out. #
- pixelstick. Use light to create images and animations to long exposure photos and timelapse. #
March 4, 2014
- Dating Bailout - A Proposal. Not a bad idea at all. #
- Stop using Nagios (so it can die peacefully). #
- Spotify app Guilty Pledgers: guests donate money to charity to add songs to the party playlist. Three years in the making by @andywhitlock! #
