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11 Reasons why responsive web design isn't that cool
Some of his points are valid, but most only if viewed in light of a very narrow interpretation of responsive web design.
responsive  web-design 
september 2011
Popcorn.js - A JavaScript framework for HTML5 Video
Looks promising.
html5  video  framework  javascript  mozilla 
september 2011
10 Great Mobile Brand Experiences
A good survey of great experiences out there.
mobile  ux 
september 2011
JavaScript Garden
A nice little resource for the tricky stuff.
javascript  programming  reference 
september 2011
Vycon Plans to Tap Speeding Subway Trains for Immense Amounts of Kinetic Energy
This could be huge.
vycon  flywheels  subways  power  energy 
september 2011
How Loading Time Affects Your Bottom Line
Website visitors tend to care more about speed than all the bells and whistles we want to add to our websites.
ecommerce  optimization  speed  infographic 
september 2011
Accessing & Modifying CSS3 Animations with Javascript (via @codepo8)
This is exactly what we needed!
JavaScript  CSS  animations 
september 2011
The Dark Art of Pricing
Great insights from Jessia Hische!
advice  business  pricing  design  freelance 
september 2011
“CMS - the software UX forgot” - Karen McGrane at Content Strategy Forum 2011
Sounds like it was an amazing talk and a rallying cry to build better CMSes.
cms  design  WYSIWYG 
september 2011
The Semantic Grid System
This is probably the smartest use of LESS I've seen yet.
css  framework  grid  webdesign  less 
september 2011
Infographic: The Rise of E-Readers
Interesting to see how eReaders affect our book consumption.
ereaders  ebooks  reading 
september 2011
Happy Labor Day: 10 Great Things Courtesy of Labor Unions
Unions have given us some great things… they aren’t always perfect, but they certainly aren’t the scourge many paint them as.
Labor  Unions  government  politics 
september 2011
Seriously, stop with the booth babes
I could not agree more. The next time I hit the tradeshow floor, I'll give it a shot.
conferences  sexism 
september 2011
twitter-text.js
JavaScript code for parsing the text of tweets and auto-linking usernames, hashtags, etc.
javascript  twitter 
september 2011
U.S. Solar Company Bankruptcies a Boon for China
If it brings the cost of solar down… I just wish US solar companies were doing better.
solar  international  trade 
september 2011
Scientist left speechless as vast glacier turns to water
Not good. Not good!
climate-change  glacier  photography 
september 2011
Build Faster Mobile Websites with Adaptive Images
A nice writeup of @MattWilcox’s technique and why it’s a more flexible
way to go than Responsive Images.
adaptive-web-design  images  optimization 
september 2011
MacVim on GitHub
Just what it says.
app  editor  text-editor 
august 2011
OpenDNS and Google working with CDNs on DNS speedup
They’re working on a new extension to the DNS protocol that that aims to more effectively direct users to the closest CDN endpoint.
CDN  DNS  Google 
august 2011
Jon Stewart to Host Nevermind Reunion
Should be an interesting show. I can’t believe it’s been 20 years already.
nirvana  jon-stewart 
august 2011
BrightFarms - Rooftop Hydroponic Greenhouses for Supermarkets
Brilliant!
food  greenhouses  hydroponics  local  locavore 
august 2011
WebShot Free
A handy little app for capturing scrolling webpages on iOS.
screenshot  web-design  ios  mobile 
august 2011
spin.js - a loading image without the image
Neat idea as you’re probably using JavaScript to load the content anyway.
javascript  loading 
august 2011
Surviving Logo Design in the Real World: Context and Meaning
An interesting write-up on logo design in the real world (which is often messy).
logo  design  reality 
august 2011
Graceful Degradation and How it Tricks You
A great post from Neils Matthijs.
graceful-degradation  progressive-enhancement  web-design  best-practices 
august 2011
FlexSlider
A responsive jQuery slider.
javascript  jquery  responsive  slider  slideshow 
august 2011
Bootstrap
A great new resource from the folks at Twitter.
css  design  framework 
august 2011
Jobs resigns as Apple CEO
You knew it would happen one day.
apple  steve-jobs 
august 2011
US nuke plants ranked by quake risk
Hooray, Sequoyah (here in Tennessee) is number 4.
nuclear  power  earthquake  natural-disaster 
august 2011
Turntable Kitchen’s Pairings Box - Food & Music, together at last!
Fingers crossed Kelly will think this is as cool as I think it is.
music  food  tasting  goodie-box 
august 2011
360° Long Road (Zurich)
Amazing use of video, panoramas and audio. Bravo!
inspiration  html5  javascript  scroll  video 
august 2011
Across the Globe, Solar Power Just Keeps Getting Cheaper
I can’t wait until solar for the home becomes more affordable. That… and geothermal.
solar  power  green  cheap 
august 2011
Experimenting with line-height in input fields
I love it when browsers save us from ourselves.
css  firefox  opera  forms  input 
august 2011
At O’Hare Airport, Unused Land Is Going to the Bees (via @GOOD)
What an awesome program. I’d love to see something like this take root at CHA.
airport  apiary  local  honey 
august 2011
OMB Extends Ban On New Federal Websites
Agencies must list the sites they've already shut down and describe how they'll improve the remaining ones.
government  spending  websites 
august 2011
Restaurant Ejects Diner for Tweeting While Eating
Wow.
twitter  customer-service 
august 2011
Sizing with CSS3's vw and vh units
A great roundup from @snookca
CSS  units  sizing  vw  vh 
august 2011
Golden Grid System
Excited to play with this one…
css  design  framework  grid  webdesign 
august 2011
Americans Elect 2012 - The first-ever open presidential nomination
What an amazing idea!
america  design  election  politics 
august 2011
Confirmed—iPad 3 will have a retina display
A 2048 x 1536 tablet. Wow. I guess they got the price down.
tablet  ipad  ipad3  retina 
august 2011
Remove Oldest Revisions of a File in Git
This may come in handy for pruning really old nightly MySQL backups.
version-control  git 
august 2011
AT&T Texting Price Hike Shows Danger of No Wireless Competition
Thanks for the heads-up @TimKarr! Shameful, AT&T.
at&t  text-messages  profits  competition  corporations  capitalism 
august 2011
PagerDuty - Phone call and SMS alerting for your monitoring systems
This could come in handy.
service  sms  support  sysadmin 
august 2011
Let the Web move you – CSS3 Animations and Transitions
A great write-up, full of helpful advice.
transitions  css3  animation  css 
august 2011
The Six Week Countdown Begins to Firefox 7
Yet another take on the Firefox upgrade path (with a referenced quote from yours truly).
Firefox  Mozilla  quotes 
august 2011
Nouriel Roubini on why Karl Marx was right
Quite an interesting read. I can’t say I disagree.
capitalism  marx  economics  nouriel-roubini 
august 2011
Re-tabulate
CSS-based table layouts for mobile joy.
css  design  responsive  web-design  web-development 
august 2011
The Jaws-Peanuts Mashup
Amazing! I hope he does more prints.
Mashup  design  comics  jaws  peanuts  movies 
august 2011
Columnal - A responsive CSS grid system helping desktop and mobile browsers play nicely together.
If only I could get past non-semantic class names.
css  framework  grid  mobile  responsive 
august 2011
Better web font loading with JavaScript
The reasoning behind Typekit’s technical decisions.
css  javascript  typekit 
august 2011
Kindle Cloud Reader
Bye bye Apple!
cloud  kindle  ebook  web  HTML5 
august 2011
9 Things The Rich Don't Want You To Know About Taxes
Very interesting reading (and charts).
economics  politics  taxes 
august 2011
Intranet Remains Poor Stepchild Of Corporate Websites
No big surprise there.
intranet  sharepoint 
august 2011
Extending native JavaScript objects. Evil or not?
An interesting discussion of the pros and cons.
best-practices  javascript  development 
august 2011
A Box You Want to Uncheck on LinkedIn
Thanks for the heads-up @ryanirelan!
linkedin  privacy  advertising 
august 2011
Why the ‘Ok’ Button is No Longer Okay (via @luxuryluke)
Instead of giving users the Ok button to confirm the action they want to do, it’s more efficient and effective to give users a button that’s labeled with the specific action.
ux  design  interfaces  usability 
august 2011
Sparse checkout example in Git 1.7.0
I’m so glad Git has this option. I was missing it when I changed from Subversion.
documentation  git  version-control 
august 2011
Braid - A simple way to manage Git submodules
Looks pretty simple. I’ll have to try it out.
github  ruby  git  submodule 
august 2011
Anatomy of a HTML5 Mobile App
A fantastic overview from @fling.
app  html5  web-apps  mobile 
august 2011
Media Queries and Asset Downloading
This really helps us better understand how browsers work with media queries.
css3  media-queries  mobile  performance  optimization 
august 2011
$1 chip tests for HIV in 15 minutes flat, fits in your wallet
Pretty amazing.
health  future  HIV  AIDS 
august 2011
Forget WiFi, It's LiFi: Internet Through Lightbulbs
Sounds awesome!
lifi  wifi  networking  light  led 
august 2011
Bagchecking in the Command Line
API-out. This is how we do things.
API  programming  progressive-enhancement 
august 2011
Redesigning the browser window (via@cameronmoll)
I’d love to see something like this.
browsers  design  widescreen 
august 2011
Your Chrome browser might not be using HTTP anymore
Wow. Just wow.
performance  chrome  spdy  http 
august 2011
Web Actions: Identifying A New Building Block For The Web
Sounds amazing. Let's get it done!
Web-intents  API  web-apps 
august 2011
@JonathanStark’s Starbucks Card (via @teleject)
An awesome idea (and API).
starbucks  share  api  card  mobile 
august 2011
Screen reader support for abbr and span on mobile
Thanks for doing this research @iheni!
accessibility  mobile  span 
august 2011
Rethinking CSS Grids
Some great ideas from @MarkBoulton.
css3  grid  layout  alternative 
august 2011
Loading Typekit fonts asynchronously
Awesome!
fonts  javascript  typekit  web-design 
august 2011
Flexbox & WebOS UI Development
A good overview of how flexbox works and how it can be used in Enyo.
development  css3  enyo 
august 2011
JavaScript - Optimising Where it Hurts (reminder via @brucel)
I had almost forgotten about this great presentation. Thanks for the reminder Bruce!
javascript  optimization  performance 
august 2011
Debt-reduction politics: Why not let each party choose the other’s supercommittee members?
Sounds intriguing to me.
politics  debt-crisis 
august 2011
Infrastructure woes take toll on US economy
We need a major public works project!
infrastructure  investment  politics 
august 2011
10K Apart (Responsive Edition)
Now with eCSStender (and yours truly as a judge).
contest  inspiration  javascript  web 
august 2011
Baker Ebook Framework 2.0
Looks interesting.
ebook  framework  html5 
august 2011
Useful List of International Address Formats (via @sniffles)
Internationalization  resource 
august 2011
HTML5 Shows Promise, While Android Tablets Confuse, Developer Survey Finds (via @thisisladychris)
More fuel for the HTML-based app fire.
HTML5  native  apps  development 
august 2011
How the Billionaires Broke the System
Shameful.
taxes  politics  government 
august 2011
TokBox
These guys are doing some pretty amazing stuff.
chat  collaboration  video  webcam 
august 2011
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