January 2015
January 27, 2015
- Careershifters: From charity to tech. An interview with Heather Taylor Portmann. #
January 26, 2015
- The Loving Trap. A hilarious send-up of Adam Curtis. #
January 22, 2015
January 21, 2015
- Why early blindness prevents schizophrenia. And apparently raises the chances of autism. #
- KeySweeper. An Arduino-based keylogger for wireless Microsoft keyboards. #
January 20, 2015
- Seth's Blog: Two ways to hire (and a wrong way). Hire people you’ve worked with (interns, freelancers) or cut the interview times. #
- Karol Gajda: How to fail to hire great people. Interesting experience of how a marketing expert expects to get hired — but doesn’t — and how the company ends up looking bad. #
- Ghost jobs, half lives: how agency workers ‘get by’ in Britain’s shadow economy. #
January 16, 2015
- Rick Webb: ‘It’s a hassle owning creative agencies’. Interesting thoughts on the problems of advertising agencies these days. #
- If Taylor Swift can't beat Spotify, then neither can you... #
- Monument Valley team reveals the cost and reward of making a hit iOS game. #
January 15, 2015
- Could choosing raw foods rather than cooked be the key to a healthy diet? Interesting stuff about how cooking alters the nutritional and calorific contents of foods. This doesn’t mean we should all be switching to raw-food diets. In fact, one of the findings was pretty startling: “Even when processing some of their diet, through pounding or blending, strict raw foodists were underweight, and 50% of women under 45 had stopped ovulating.” #
- The subtle art of not giving a fuck. Though the serenity prayer says it better. #
- An unconventional review of AngularJS. #
- An unconventional review of React. #
- Remote working — a three-year retrospective. #
January 14, 2015
- Amazon secretly working on new platform for inventors? #
- How Product Hunt fed product development of Precursor. Interesting story, but I thought the bit at the end was a bit strange: “We even started responding to feature requests by building the requested feature, rather than just a promise to do it later. Once users told us exactly what they wanted it was easy to prioritize and build things quickly.” So the interest served as validation for a need (“Precursor started as a weekend project but Product Hunt showed us that there's interest in a solution like this.”) — great! But building feature requests as they come in? Perhaps this works for an early stage product like Precursor, but surely this way lies insanity in the long term? Interesting story nevertheless, and I’m happy that Precursor shared it. #
- The Guardian: Too many choices, high costs and bureaucracy: British expats grade American healthcare system ‘a pain in the arse’. #
January 13, 2015
- 24 ways: Is Agile harder for agencies? Charlie Perrins shares his experiences of why agencies struggle with working in an agile way with clients. #
- Quick Left's survey of the current state of CSS. Based on scraping 8000 sites in the wild. Interestingly, “content” was one of the top five most used attributes, and the longest selector was 227 characters long. #
January 12, 2015
January 7, 2015
January 6, 2015
- Practical ARIA examples. #
- vivus.js. SVG animation library to “give the appearance of being drawn”. #
- The New Defaults. Sass replacements for the standard CSS keyword color system. #
