May 2014
May 30, 2014
May 29, 2014
- How Apple cheats. Apple can do whatever they want with their own native apps, meaning they can and do use private APIs. #
- Outdated UX patterns. #
- Internet Census 2012. Port scanning /0 using insecure embedded devices. Jaw-dropping results. #
- The Game of Königsrufen. Ah, the rules of königsrufen! Need to ask Dan to update the games to include farbensolo. #
- Shaven. Shaven is a DOM building utility and template engine based upon JsonML. #
- Video game music, all-day everyday. #
May 28, 2014
- Inside the 11-story building that’s calling itself the people’s Republic of Donetsk. The smallest country in the world, it must also be the most bureaucratic. #
- Drew Barontini: Single Responsibility is CSS. #
- Fast Company: Marc Andreessen on how to turn impossible ideas into successful businesses. #
May 27, 2014
- Ukip founder Alan Sked: “The party has become a Frankenstein's monster”. “I spent two hours trying to explain to [Nigel Farage] the difference between ‘it’s’ with an apostrophe and ‘its’ without and he just flounced out the ‘I just don’t understand words.’” #
- The brave new world of DIY faecal transplant. #
- BBC News: Why did UKIP do less well in London? Fascinating points on London’s role in UK economy: “[S]ome 70% of all worldwide economic activity takes place in the world’s 600 largest cities. And the most vital cities [...] are those that are most connected by becoming hubs or waypoints for skilled people, for goods, for services, for capital, and for data. On this view, London is one of only six truly connected cities, along with New York, Dubai, Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo. [...] What is striking about this half-dozen of the global elite metropolises is that three of them, Dubai, Hong Kong and Singapore, are city-states.” #
- “Suur-Suomi olisi onnistunut vain natsi-Saksan avulla”. Luvattu maa -kirja tarkastelee toista maailmansotaa edeltävää Suur-Suomi-aatetta. #
May 20, 2014
- Secrets, lies and Snowden's email: why I was forced to shut down Lavabit. #
- The New York Review of Books on Stung! On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean. Lisa-ann Gershwin’s book sounds captivating (if a bit scary). I, for one, welcome our new jellyfish overlords... #
May 19, 2014
- The DHH Problem. A lightning talk. #
- Study: Gluten ‘sensitivity’ probably not a real condition. Note that it doesn’t dismiss the existence of celiac disease. #
- Thinking in a foreign language could sway your moral judgments. “Two years ago, researchers led by Keysar found that people thinking in a second language tended to be more even-headed about risk-taking. A certain lack of fluency seemed to encourage deliberation, dampening emotional reactions to the idea of loss.” #
- Wired: 7 things your company gets wrong about user research. #
- Cryptocurrency-mining worm targets connected devices. How much processing power is there in security camera DVRs anyway? It's also interesting that the worm runs on x86, ARM, MIPS and PowerPC architectures. #
May 18, 2014
May 12, 2014
- Vidaloka. A typeface by Cyreal reminiscent of Bodoni. #
- Foro by Hoftype. Reminiscent of Museo and Archer. #
May 8, 2014
- Scaling agile at Spotify (pdf). Squads, tribes, chapters and guilds, oh my! #
- Programming sucks. A rant that’s funny and a little terrifying at the same time. #
- Kuningatar Alkoholi -sarjakuvablogi. #
- How we design at Intercom. #
- ALA: CSS Shapes 101. #
- NYT: Everyone wants to be a homeowner. Why not a foodowner? A strong comparison that highlights the effects of homeownership. #
May 7, 2014
- A path to retirement, for those far from it. There's an “eleemosynary” ebook to be downloaded, but the rule, in a nutshell, is: Save 15% of your income from age 25 into three index funds, one for domestic stocks, one for international stocks, and the third for bonds. Rebalance to even proportions yearly. #
May 2, 2014
- Agile vs agile (vs agile). A quick look at different management tasks and methodologies. #
- Getting rid of the big ta-da. Working with the client throughout works much better. #
- Amazon.com: AudioQuest K2 Terminated Speaker Cable. Who knew $15000 audio cables could be such a fecund topic of humor! #
May 1, 2014
- Famous advice on writing. The collected wisdom of great writers from Brain Pickings. #
- Stack Overflow: Favicons and touch icons, best practice for 2013. #
- Forbes: How Obama's Russia sanctions will destroy Vladimir Putin. #
- Huffington Post: Forget the spin, Putin is holding a losing hand. #
- Why Facebook's new Anonymous Login matters. #
- Designer duds: Losing our seat at the table. A fascinating look at how and why a wave of “design-led” services are currently struggling. #
- Snapchat and the Path to the personal. Why Snapchat wins when Path can’t: Path may be a “better designed Facebook” but it will never be intimate. #
- Das Programm. Photos of Dieter Rams designs and Braun products issued between 1955 and 1995. #
- Litmus: How to code HTML5 video background in email. #
