April 2014
April 27, 2014
- Shingy just spent 20 minutes yelling insane gibberish on a stage. The digital prophet hath spoken. #
April 24, 2014
- Peter Armstrong talks about Lean Publishing. #
- Responsive Email Patterns. Email templates are a black art within the dark arts of web development. #
- Empathy: a product manager’s key to success. #
- The 10 Commandments of Typography. An infographic with recommendations and rules. #
April 23, 2014
- Feminism 101. Perspectives, debates, topics, words, language... It’s all there and thensome. #
- All you need to know about CSS Transitions. From Alex MacCaw. #
- Poul-Henning Kamp: Please put OpenSSL out of its misery. “OpenSSL must die, for it will never get any better.” #
April 16, 2014
- How many of this year’s Oscar nominees pass the Bechdel test? Not many. #
- The origins of the word “shampoo”. As explained by Aishah Macgill. Via @zociechowska. #
April 15, 2014
- Bechdel test. “Asks whether a work of fiction features at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man.” #
April 14, 2014
- Tom Fishburne’s Marketoonist captures the origins “growth hackers” aptly. #
- Star Trek 1971 text game. I remember being entirely befuddled by this game (or rather by Super Star Trek, as mentioned in the end of the article). #
- What the Tamiflu saga tells us about drug trials and big pharma. #
- xkcd explains the Heartbleed security hole. #
- 5 classic westerns to watch. (If you loved Django Unchained.) #
April 12, 2014
- The ultimate guide to solving iOS battery drain. #
- A brief, terrifying history of viruses escaping from labs. A sober note in the conclusion states that we cannot plan for full containment and should, instead, plan for what happens when a breach does happen. #
- Font Men. A film about Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones (before their split). “We do have a long-standing disagreement on the height of the lowercase ‘t’. [...] That is the only point of contention.” #
- Michael Lewis’s Flash Boys, about high-frequency trading. Reviewed by Felix Salmon. #
April 10, 2014
- Gentrification in London: Chasing cool. The Economist looks at some data to back up the anecdotal evidence. #
- Catcopter: Dutch artist turns his dead cat into a helicopter. #
April 9, 2014
- American Apparel's unisex ads. “While men in non-gender-specificshirts are shown modeling the clothing in innocuous poses — looking straight at a camera or smoking a cigarette — the female models all seem to forget their pants.” #
- José Mourinho steals punchline from Tony Pulis to deliver Chelsea win. Barney Ronay’s article is a top-notch match report; well-written and artfully crafted from amusing and insightful football knowledge. #
- NoFlo Kickstarter, the hacker's perspective. From Henri Bergius. #
- Bloomberg Media — a new direction. Bloomberg’s “state of the union” address published on Medium. #
- Disasterpeace: FEZ Original Sound Track. #
- Hyper Light Drifter. An awesome looking game. #
- Facebook creates software that matches faces almost as well as you do. #
- Fast Company: The three stages of mentorship. #
- Palindromic sentences. “Step on no pets.” #
- Suomenkielisiä palindromeja. “No niin, on aamu. Kehua sinua kai saan, ah, ihana Kristian. Nait Sirkan, ah, ihana asia, kaunis. Au, hekumaa. No niin on.” #
- Finnish for beginners: järki = reason, sense,… How to make a very long word. #
- Cover Poses. Jim C. Hines’ project of posing I like some of the women (and men) in fantasy cover art. #
- David Cameron calling for austerity in front of ridiculous gold things. From last year, but still a favorite of mine. #
- Codesake Dawn. A static analysis security scanner for Ruby-written web applications. It supports Sinatra, Padrino and Ruby on Rails frameworks. #
- Brakeman. A static analysis security vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications. #
April 8, 2014
- Fast Company: Four ways to avoid getting blindsided by an unhappy employee. Fairly standard fare, but I really like tip 3: “Have unhappy employees write out their ideal job descriptions.” #
- Six principles of persuasion. Animated principles based on the research of Robert Cialdini. #
April 7, 2014
- Menstruation: What is the evolutionary or biological purpose of having periods? Suzanne Sadedin’s answer (the veracity of which I haven’t verified) is mind-boggling. #
- Neil Harbisson at Cybersalon. Born colorblind, Harbisson's “electronic eye” translates color into sound. #
- Teehan Lax on the work evolving Prismatic's design. #
- List beats grid: linear feeds perform 2–3x better than grids. Prismatic has a comprehensive write-up of how and why they experimented and iterated their layout. #
- Comic Neue. Hahahahaha. #
April 4, 2014
- The Expert. How life sometimes feels to a developer. #
April 3, 2014
- Geek Feminism Wiki: Timeline of incidents. A depressing catalog of sexism in the industry. #
- Kotaku: She was harassed by a games reporter, now she's speaking out. Appalling. Simply appalling. #
- Orlin Culture Shop. Beautiful illustrations. #
April 2, 2014
April 1, 2014
- Scott Weiss on how to survive the WFIO moment. As in: "we're fucked, it's over". #
- Michael Abrash on the hard parts yet to solve in VR and AR. Fascinating talk from one 3D gaming's pioneers. #
- How iou, I, and everyone got the top 1% all wrong. #
- The Wonkblog guide to efficient drinking. With a handy calories-to-inebriation index. #
