Lovely 3D spaceship viewer.

Escapes code with %, ends with newline, significant whitespace, "rebase" for inheritance, "include" for modules.

"engineers tend to look at the world from the product out. Having a few people in the company who see the world from the market in can be enlightening."

"It’s time for feminists — and I mean anyone, of any gender, who believes in gender equality — to stop plugging Women Don’t Ask. Stop buying this book. Stop parroting the half-baked notion that women need to be cured of their failure to negotiate." - guilty.

Pretty thorough imitation of Flipboard layout. Just needs Flipboard content now ;)

math(s) wins

Once I figured out that the "next" link needed a page number (not count/offset) then jquery masonry + jquery infinite scroll was super easy to set up.

Couldn't get this to work, but here for reference.

Use openssl on the command line to safely send text using someone's public key. Note that ssh public keys aren't the same as openssl public keys, but the tutorial shows how to generate an openssl public key.

"Many web-centric managers and engineering organizations are confronting the “essential complexity” of native app development for the first time since Netscape ushered in an age of lightweight clients, and the response is often to try to force native app development into a familiar web-like mold without regard to the differences inherent in native apps. If you want to develop truly great, Apple-like native experiences, be ready to engage with some serious complexity."

"Call me old-fashioned, but I think news should look like news, and hobbits should look like hobbits – and never the twain shall meet."

"So, taking stock, what's happening is that the potential sources of "news" footage are now four different technologies:

- the legacy cameras from the tape era which will always beat an SLR for long-range clarity but not rich colour, or bokeh

- iPhone footage with its unchallengeable "truth"

- SLR-shot footage, with or without a slower frame rate to make it look filmic

- live, static versions of the old TV cameras, with lighting etc in a studio or live satellite position.

- You could add, for increasingly cash strapped programmes that can't afford satellite feeds, Skype interviews.

- And while I think about it, there is also the GoPro, an ultra-wide, ultra-sharp mini camera people use to film themselves, ski-ing, surfing and taking their dog in their kayak etc.

There's suddenly a high diversity of image quality in news footage. I think the modern viewer is OK with this (I can remember picture editors "rejecting" early mobile footage on the grounds that it did not conform to broadcast standards)."

Had this stuck in my head for weeks now. Weird.

Nice little JS helper with hipster-themed auto-generated lorem ipsum text and filler images. Just add class="fixie" to elements and it populates all the children.

Hold onto your static typed languages dearly, someone might take them away from you.

Nice thoughtful post reflecting on six years of OpenLayers.

Wow, dense and amazingly well researched take-down :)

"On my machine, Chrome 13 and Firefox 6 awkwardly jump between 120 and 60 FPS when using it (it's disabled in the benchmark) and even without GC pauses there are noticeable hiccups, while IE9 is able to produce perfectly smooth animations without it. At the moment requestAnimationFrame() is truly worthless for games."

"The immerging discipline of Web Science is reliant on access to data that records the history of the Web and human activity on the Web. Disparate repositories of web data (e.g., archived web pages, Twitter updates, user-generated tags, and newsgroup postings) are being amassed by researchers and institutions working independently, but sharing such data is difficult due to numerous technical and legal obstacles."

"Heritrix is the Internet Archive's open-source, extensible, web-scale, archival-quality web crawler project."

"A web archiving service
to harvest and preserve digital collections
a service of the Internet Archive"

GUI/CLI for downloading entire websites.

"Forensic Toolkit® (FTK®) is recognized around the world as the standard in computer forensics software."

Notes on one of the more complex aspects of using D3.js with hierarchical data.

Long thorough detailed backbone.js tutorial.

Good overview of some simple ways to use background images, css content, etc.

Program or be programmed, eh.

More robust ssh interface from MIT.

Nice portfolio of fun hacky visual and game projects.

Free documentation of open source events/workshops/etc. Not sure if there are any strings attached, bookmarking for future reference.

Fun toys from cheap bits and pieces.

The other big reason Facebook bought Instagram: scale.

One stop shop for opting out of (some?) personalised ads online.

by Joshua Bloch, Principal Software Engineer at Google.

"Silly list scroll effects"

Bookmarking for the insight that Instagram's sale value is justified if it moves Facebook's (expected) IPO price by 1%.

Icky soundbite speech.

Tuning node.js for lots of concurrent connections, notable because it's done on Rackspace.

"Histogrem lets you make histograms right inside a text file."

Interesting post exploring API and feature design principles from a low-level/high-level code point of view.

Looking for a lawyerly take on this - is it enforceable? The 10 year clause seems especially broad. Still, definitely a good position to take and I trust their intentions. What about the opposite approach - e.g. "we'll only patent core innovations that are essential to our business but we pledge to defend those patents aggressively". Anyone doing that with their employees? Why not?