Articles, ideas, and references I want to find again.
ParisLemon
The biggest challenge I faced as a tech blogger was a simple one: motivation. By that, I don’t mean that it was hard to write — it never was. But towards the end, it was getting hard to get excited to write on a daily basis. I needed to be driven. That’s when I’m at my best. Tech blogging is a game. Most of those…
Bustr Bensn
Thoughts in no particular order, spiraling into a weird place by the end… I’m trying to eat a salad every day for lunch. Like many other things, it brings me face-to-face with the challenge of controlling my behavior outside the realm of habits. What exactly am I “forcing” the change against? Dopamine. Like Pavlov’s…
CreativeApplications.Net · Jobs
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
WebAppers · Ray Cheung
KK Lifestream
Originally posted in The Technium In a previous life I was a photographer in Asia, recording the fast disappearing traditions of that continent. I traveled between Turkey and Japan for about 8 years in the 1970s, with two cameras and 1,000 rolls of film. I photographed horsemen in Afghanistan, remote monasteries in…
Cognition by Happy Cog · Dave DeRuchie
If you’ve taken part in any sort of web project, you have hopefully defined, referenced, and/or tested a requirement. You’ve also felt the impact of requirements gathering on your work. A good requirement can make your job easier by taking the mystery out of what is needed. A bad requirement can lead to more work, or…
ParisLemon
Google's Own Burning Platform Memo: This is all kinds of fascinating. It’s a Jerry Maguire-esque memo for Google. It’s The Burning Platform part 2. First of all, it’s apparently a huge Google+ Circle fail. The engineer, Steve Yegge, meant to share it internally at Google and instead made it public. Whoops. Second,…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Quantified Self · Steven Dean
Blog - Stack Exchange · Joel Spolsky
Blog - Stack Exchange · Alex Miller
Joe Hewitt
I've been thinking about ways to save the Web from being buried in the avalanche of native apps we've been seeing. As I recently wrote, hyperlinks are the defining characteristic of the Web, but most native platforms break the hypertext model. iOS and Android support URLs for navigating between apps, but the URLs…
Joe Hewitt
While building Scrollability I've learned a few tricks about how to make animations that start fast and run fast on iOS WebKit. The challenge of getting the scrolling physics right was nothing compared to the chore of making the animations as smooth and stutter-free as they are in native iOS apps. It took several…
Joe Hewitt
I flipped the switch on my new blog last night. If you've been here before, you might not notice anything different. The design hasn't changed, but behind the scenes everything is new. I've written a CMS for the blog in Node.js and Express. It's hosted on EC2, S3, and Cloudfront. All the content is written in…
Joe Hewitt
My post the other day generated a lot of responses. I suspect that most of the positive responses were from people who, like me, have a depth of experience on other client platforms, and are able to judge the Web in comparison. It's hard not to be disappointed by HTML if you've developed for iOS, Windows, or other…
The Art of Non-Conformity » 3×5 · Chris Guillebeau
SEO in Philadelphia · Bill Rowland
timoni.org
theokbb: LOVE this for our friend Amit. (via What Would Jennifer Do » Blog Archive » I Love You Amit. I Hate Cancer.)
frabjous days · frabjousdays
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report · Jeffrey Zeldman
ParisLemon
The Rundown: Matt Drance recalls his first encounter with his former boss, Steve Jobs. What at first sounds like the set up of a horror story, is actually a quite nice one: Steve knew that his people were his company. And while he made us work hard, never settle, never accept mediocrity, he also made us feel like…
More Intelligent Life · Roger Boylan
Flann O'Brien is now acclaimed as one of Ireland's most original novelists but, as Roger Boylan explains, his life was a story of misfortune ... read more »
Smarterware · Gina Trapani
The New Adventures of Stephen Fry » Blog · Stephen Fry
Neven Mrgan's tumbl
On January 9, 2007, I took the day off from work to watch Steve Jobs’ keynote. I stayed off iChat, and I told the people who were likely to contact me that day to please refrain from feeding me any info on what Apple announces that morning. I waited for the video feed to become available, which happened later that…
Google Geo Developers Blog · Thor Mitchell
ElectronPlumber · El Plumber (admin)
Inside Facebook · Josh Constine
Calvin Cheng at Odeon · Calvin Cheng
Once in a while, it helps to do some house cleaning to keep your Mac OS clean and lean.If you are using MacPorts to manage your open source software packages and libraries, a problem you might notice is that MacPorts tend not to uninstall old versions of downloaded ports. This probably means that over time, you would…
Google Webmaster Central Blog · Jonathan Simon
Google Analytics Blog · Google Analytics team
Calvin Cheng at Odeon · Calvin Cheng
If you are a non-techie working with software developers, dev ops and other techies, you might have heard so much about the brouhaha among your techie and software developer friends about this thing called "Test Driven Development" and "Unit Testing".What does that all mean really? And what does that mean in terms of…
information aesthetics
Between the overwhelming number of marketing-driven infographics currently out there, sometimes some interesting innovations can be spotted. The interactive infographic "You vs. John Paulson" [mahifx.com] by Sons&co is such an exception, as it demonstrates some clever use of web technologies to present some…
information aesthetics
It's one of those things we tend *not* to think about: the actual moment we were conceived... However, buried in various datasets is an interesting story about this moment, ranging from statistical facts like average local birth rates or ambient temperatures to more contextual information like fashion trends, popular…