Articles, ideas, and references I want to find again.
timoni.org
“Peter maintains that telling lies is the No. 1 reason entrepreneurs fail. Not because telling lies makes you a bad person but because the act of lying plucks you from the present, preventing you from facing what is really going on in your world. Every time you overreport a metric, underreport a cost, are less than…
Pinboard - bookmarking for introverts · maciej@pinboard.in (Maciej Ceglowski)
By now you may have heard about the heartbleed bug, which affected many websites that use encryption. This is the Spanish Flu of security bugs—it hit almost everyone and took a disproportionate toll on the healthiest, those sites that followed security best practices. Servers affected by the bug (including the…
Marco.org
Scotty Loveless: This article is a product of my years of research and anecdotal evidence I gathered in the hundreds of Genius Bar appointments I took during my time as a Genius and iOS technician, as well as testing on my personal devices and the devices of my friends. … This is not one of those “Turn off every…
Seth Godin's Blog on marketing, tribes and respect · Seth Godin
Without a doubt, free enables an idea to spread, it creates opportunity for sampling, it can open the door to engagement. But when you buy something, you're paying for something that you can never get when it's handed to you....
ParisLemon
markcoatney: washingtonpost: silentgiantla: Animated artwork by Rebecca Mock Fine, detailed and subtle animated artwork created by New York illustrator Rebecca Mock. Apparently the animated gif back to stay, gradually more and more people are exploring this old format and customers asking for shouting. Several of…
Search Engine Land: News & Info About SEO, PPC, SEM, Search Engines & Search Marketing · Barry Schwartz
Afromusing · Juliana Rotich
I took a short break to unplug. I had limited success with completely unplugging from the internet and from work, but slowed down enough to get some perspective. The main thing that leaped out at me when I thought about … Continue reading →
asymco.com · asymco-admin
There are 7.1 billion people on Earth. Coincidentally there are also 7 billion mobile connections. Those connections are held by 3.45 billion unique mobile subscribers.[1] Unsurprisingly, the largest national mobile markets (by number of subscriptions) correspond closely to the most populous nations. Considering…
Kalzumeus Software · Patrick
Tarsnap is the world’s best secure online backup service. It’s run by Colin Percival, Security Officer Emeritus at FreeBSD, a truly gifted cryptographer and programmer. I use it extensively in my company, recommend it to clients doing Serious Business (TM) all the time, and love seeing it successful. It’s because I…
ParisLemon
rhiannaholly: this is such a beautiful game Confirmed, this game is beautiful.
Feed: stratēchery by Ben Thompson · Ben Thompson
Let’s get one thing out of the way: there is nothing about Box’s S-1 filing that suggests tech is in a bubble. Indeed, the fact Aaron Levie and company are not yet profitable is a good thing. To understand why, you must read Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not by VC Mark Suster: There […]The post Box,…
Dr. Jay Parkinson
From 1988 to 2014, watch the battle to eradicate polio unfold. Red means the country still has cases of wild polio, yellow means the country is in a region that still has cases of wild polio, and white means that the disease has been eradicated. unicef
Seth Godin's Blog on marketing, tribes and respect · Seth Godin
Launching today, my new course on Skillshare: The Modern Marketing Workshop. A course for marketers in every organization. Click here to find out the details. I think you'll find that this course has the power to transform the way you...
Search Engine Land: News & Info About SEO, PPC, SEM, Search Engines & Search Marketing · Matt McGee
stevenf.com
"Now, the abortion that happened after PARC was the misunderstanding of the user interface that we did for children, which was the overlapping window interface which we made as naive as absolutely we possibly could to the point of not having any workflow ideas in it, and that was taken over uncritically out into the…
Feed: stratēchery by Ben Thompson · Ben Thompson
This is Part 3 in a series on the future of news and newspapers. Previously: Part 1: FiveThirtyEight and the End of Average link Part 2: The Stages of Newspapers’ Decline link Newspapers are held up as an irreplaceable tentpole of a free society, especially by the journalists who work at them, but the people […]The…
danah boyd | apophenia · zephoria
As promised, I put a free PDF copy of “It’s Complicated” on my website the day the book officially launched. But as some folks noticed, I didn’t publicize this when I did so. For those who are curious as to why, I want to explain. And I want you to understand the various issues at […]
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
How to turn your smartphone photos from good to great some good tips (tags: phone pictures photos tips smartphone iphone android) How the Irish helped weave the web Nice Irish Times article on the first 3 web servers in Ireland — including the one I set up at Iona Technologies. 21 years ago! (tags: history [...]
OkDork.com · Bryan Harris
You ever have one of those friends or acquaintances who you just know will succeed? I’m sure you do. Bryan Harris is one of those people for me. This guy does not stop. He was an early member of Monthly1k and has gone on to be a complete beast creating content, successfully growing his business, and really making a…
ParisLemon
sippey: merlin mann, ladies and gentlemen. iWatch, redux.
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
Microsoft “Scroogles” Itself ‘Microsoft went through a blogger’s private Hotmail account in order to trace the identity of a source who allegedly leaked trade secrets.’ Bear in mind that the alleged violation which MS allege allows them to read their email was a breach of the terms of service, which also include…
Google Webmaster Central Blog · Google Webmaster Central
Cognition by Happy Cog · Sam Hernandez
Times are changing in the PHP world. Some call it the PHP Renaissance. PSR standards are bringing interoperability between frameworks and unity to coding standards. Composer offers access to an array of best-in-class components and a simple way to integrate them into your applications. There are some great, new PHP…
Wondermark · David Malki !
I’ve been trying to get to this list for months — it’s March, for Pete’s sake! — but now that the Machine of Death game is pretty much totally shipped to our backers, it’s finally time! Last year I did a rundown of the books I read in 2012, and I found it a fun […]
A List Apart: The Full Feed · Mat Marquis
If you’re running a version of the ALA pattern library that’s more than a few weeks old on a public server, please update it right away. The script that powers the navigation in the pattern library was found to have a pretty glaring security issue that would potentially allow read access to any file on a public…
A List Apart: The Full Feed · Anthony Colangelo
As a developer, a large amount of my time is spent reading documentation. An even larger amount of time is spent finding said documentation. Or it was, until Dash entered my life. Dash is an application that manages self-contained documentation packages, called docsets. You’ll find docsets for almost every language,…
Dr. Jay Parkinson
Sharing a lovely meal with friends and family— it’s one of life’s most beautiful experiences. For healthy people, it’s just so simple. You meet up, eat, drink, laugh, and call it a night. For people who have Parkinson’s Disease, or some other tremor, sharing a meal can not only be embarrassing, it can be impossible.…
Bustr Bensn
zenhabits: How I track my life — Buster Benson This was fun to write.
Search Engine Land: News & Info About SEO, PPC, SEM, Search Engines & Search Marketing · Greg Sterling
asymco.com · Horace Dediu
The smartphone market continues to grow. 2013 saw total shipment of around one billion units (up from 683 million in 2012). In contrast, non-smartphone shipments continue to decline, with shipments around 800 million (down from 987 million in 2012). This pattern is shown below: Note that prior to 2012 the non-smart…
ParisLemon
Apple's Forthcoming "Healthbook" Software: An insanely detailed leak of Apple’s forthcoming Healthbook software (likely a part of iOS 8) by Mark Gurman: Each category of functionality is a card in the Healthbook. Cards are distinguished by a color, and the tabs can be arranged to fit user preferences. As can be seen…
Feed: stratēchery by Ben Thompson · Ben Thompson
Just a few minutes ago, Nate Silver’s new FiveThirtyEight site launched. While it’s not known how much ESPN is paying Silver, it’s certainly a substantial amount, especially when you consider 20% of visitors to the New York Times stopped by Silver’s blog. Silver’s FiveThirtyEight is one of a growing number of…
Singapore Mini Maker Faire · megadolen
It started with just a handful of students who readily took up the hands-on challenge to build their own microscope by hacking a webcam. In a short while, the two tables that were full of gadgets gradually drew attention, until a point that we can hardly view what was happening at Marc Dusseiller’s pop-up…
Yoast • The Art & Science of Website Optimization · Michiel Heijmans
We’ve been doing our website reviews for quite some time now. Over the past years, we have reviewed more than 1,700 websites (!) and counting. In this article, I’d like to show you how our reviews can help your website by highlighting some of the recommendations and how the follow-up on that resulted in increased…
Yoast · Joost de Valk
Today we’re releasing what’s probably the single biggest update to our WordPress SEO plugin since its initial release. It improves speed, fixes a ton of bugs and edge cases and adds a new bulk title & description editor. On top of that we’ve changed several default settings and added some smaller new features.…
Yoast • SEO for everyone · Michiel Heijmans
Two years ago, we wrote about why we really don’t like sliders. We still don’t like sliders. If your theme forces you to include a slider (also named carousels) on your homepage, please realize that it’s making you use a feature that has no value for SEO. A feature that is probably slowing down your site […]
Cognition by Happy Cog · Alison Harshbarger
The web has been all about style guides lately. Everyone from the BBC to Code for America to Yelp released their guides to the public, and style-guide-automating tools like KSS and Hologram are becoming increasingly popular. At Happy Cog, we’ve been making our clients’ style guides more interactive. Our newer style…
True Ventures · Jon
Every tribe, be it a business, a networking group or a family, needs focused time together to set goals, reflect on mission and spend time just being together. It’s how we dial down the noise of the outside world and connect with what is most important. It’s where dreams find the freedom to grow into big, audacious…
Google Analytics Blog · Adam Singer
Noah Kagan's Okdork.com · Tyler V
Howdy everyone. A few months ago, my friend Pat Flynn of Smart Passive Income interviewed me for his podcast. Little did I know that podcasts are a channel with significantly less competition than blogs and a fervent subscriber base that is LARGE in masses. Think about it… Most blog posts you skim while having 30…
Singapore Mini Maker Faire · kramanathan
If you are coming to Science Centre Singapore on 13th March 2014, do drop by at the Annexe Foyer. Marc Dusseiller - transdisciplinary scholar, cultural facilitator and artist – will be setting up a mobile Makerspace from 11am onwards at the Annexe foyer. So, drop in for some spontaneous bio tinkering and be…
Bjango Articles · Marc Edwards
OS X’s Color Picker panel has been around for an eternity and is jam packed full of great features. One of my favourites is the ability to sample colours from images.
An Entirely Other Day: Full Feed · Greg Knauss
Romantimatic — the little app I wrote to remind the distracted or forgetful to text nice things to their significant other — is a month old today. It’s been an interesting month. The app has sold just over 875 copies,...
Google Analytics Blog · Adam Singer
Search Engine Land: News & Info About SEO, PPC, SEM, Search Engines & Search Marketing · Matt McGee