"The focus of this specification is readability and ease of access. Unlike the full HTML specification, this "web developer edition" removes information that only browser vendors need know."

"A big piece of the story we tell ourselves about who we are, is that we are willing to invent. We are willing to think long-term. We start with the customer and work backwards. And, very importantly, we are willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time."

"Quickly expose your local web server to the Internet "

A comprehensive list of distributed systems papers.

"ØMQ (ZeroMQ, 0MQ, zmq) looks like an embeddable networking library but acts like a concurrency framework. It gives you sockets that carry whole messages across various transports like in-process, inter-process, TCP, and multicast. You can connect sockets N-to-N with patterns like fanout, pub-sub, task distribution, and request-reply. It's fast enough to be the fabric for clustered products. Its asynchronous I/O model gives you scalable multicore applications, built as asynchronous message-processing tasks. It has a score of language APIs and runs on most operating systems."

Schema.org provides a collection of shared vocabularies webmasters can use to mark up their pages in ways that can be understood by the major search engines: Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo!

Every work day Facebook is safely updated with hundreds of changes including bug fixes, new features, and product improvements. Given hundreds of engineers, thousands of changes every week and hundreds of millions of users we have worldwide, this task seems like it should be impossible. In this tech talk, Chuck Rossi will dig into the tools and processes built by our Release Engineering team that make it possible to push daily updates to the site.

"Complaining is easy. Offering solutions is the tough part. When we have an idea about how to improve a specific web site or concept, we post our pro bono "better" design comp here."

"Let guests into your beach house while you’re traveling abroad, provision temporary access for contractors at the office, or let friends buzz themselves up to your party without the hassle of physical keys."

We’re calling it End-to-End Encryption, and in this post we’ll tell you about what it is, how it works and how you can use it to make payments more secure and flexible in addition to reducing PCI compliance scope.

"GR1 is the original GORUCK product and represents GORUCK’s highest standards of functionality, durability, and a unique style."

Collection of Pixar publications on computer graphics techniques.

"Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic through their effects on insulin."

"Since the CMS is built with the django framework, it allows you to easily integrate hundreds of already existing apps."

"This site contains a ton of fun tutorials – so many that they were becoming hard to find! So I put together this little page to help everyone quickly find the tutorial they’re looking for. Hope you enjoy!"

"Here, you'll find only the most well-made, free & open-source, @font-face ready fonts."

"iTerm2 is a Terminal replacement and the successor of iTerm. It focuses on speed, internationalization, and building new features to improve your life."

"A distributed data scraping and processing framework"

"Why do we love brisket above all other barbecued meats? Is it because of its resonant beefy flavor, its exterior as shiny as black patent leather, its rivulets of fat moistening every mouthful and staining the eater’s shirt? Yes. The very nature of brisket is to be delicious."

"You need to understand what you are paying to know whether it’s fair, right? So we will never try to confuse you with prices you only get by spending some huge amount. Or prices that don’t include features you need."

"The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done."

"Help me understand when and why flight prices change - tell me the tricks that the airlines are trying to use. Yes, I already know that weekends where bank-holidays feature are going to be expensive, that's not the issue - it's the normal weekends i'm trying to save on :-)"

"CHDK is a firmware enhancement that operates on a number of Canon Cameras. CHDK gets loaded into your camera's memory upon bootup (either manually or automatically). It provides additional functionality beyond that currently provided by the native camera firmware."

"Cinder is a community-developed, free and open source library for professional-quality creative coding in C++."

"Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing virtualized development environments."

Pitch by pitch data for every MLB game.

"An independent developer has cracked the private key used in Apple's AirPort Express to stream music to approved speakers, potentially allowing third-party software and hardware to receive AirPlay streams without paying Apple's licensing fee."

"Webstock 2011 was held at the Wellington Town Hall from 14 - 18 February 2011. 740 people attended the conference and speakers included Amanda Palmer, Merlin Mann, John Gruber, Kristina Halvorson and a myriad of other web luminaries!"

"The OODA loop (for observe, orient, decide, and act) is a concept originally applied to the combat operations process, often at the strategic level in both the military operations. It is now also often applied to understand commercial operations and learning processes. The concept was developed by military strategist and USAF Colonel John Boyd."

"Capturing JVM- and application-level metrics. So you know what's going on."

"One of the major challenges for computer scientists who wish to work in the
domain of molecular biology is becoming conversant with the daunting intricacies of existing biological knowledge and its extensive technical vocabulary."

"the basics for resetting a machine back to no users, so it boots to the Setup Assistant again."

"Upromise's goal is to help individuals attain the dream of higher education. Only 5 percent of people are prepared to fully pay the expected costs of college. Through Upromise earnings and low-cost college savings plans, we make it easier for people at all life stages and income levels to help pay for college."

Git is a version control Swiss army knife. A reliable versatile multipurpose revision control tool whose extraordinary flexibility makes it tricky to learn, let alone master.

"What follows is an unabashedly opinionated diatribe certain to offend many programmers. Craftsmen inevitably grow defensive of their favourite tools and practices. Rather than respect this natural sensitivity, I will exploit it, shamelessly intensifying the vitriol for attention. I care little whether one applauds or deplores my views; I mainly want my audience to feel compelled to read on."

"Review Board is a powerful web-based code review tool that offers developers an easy way to handle code reviews. It scales well from small projects to large companies and offers a variety of tools to take much of the stress and time out of the code review process."

"If you are new to JavaScript, start with the JavaScript Guide. Once you have a firm grasp of the fundamentals, you can use the JavaScript Reference to get more details on individual objects and statements."

"Ironically, the Montessori educational approach might be the surest route to joining the creative elite, which are so overrepresented by the school’s alumni that one might suspect a Montessori Mafia: Google’s founders Larry Page and Sergei Brin, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, videogame pioneer Will Wright, and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, not to mention Julia Child and rapper Sean “P.Diddy” Combs."

"It is an annotated tour of my Git config, Git related scripts and commands, and various other tips and tricks I picked up over the years."

"For obsessive chopping dicing!  If you are one of those folks for whom things must be “just so”, then this cutting board is for you!"

"But the really strange thing was the reason this employee and I decided it was time to part ways. The issue was ambition—not a lack of it, but more of it than we could use."

"Our aim is to explore the technique, history, passion, quirks, and simple joy of keeping score. Nothing else brings you closer to a baseball game, and our purpose is to bring you closer to how and why it’s done."

"Readability is a browser bookmarklet that takes a crack at wiping out all that junk so you can have a more enjoyable reading experience. It works with all the latest browsers and its success rate is pretty respectable (we'd guess over 90% of web sites are handled properly)."

“They’re not scary,” he said. “Even if they all win 20 games, the Phillies don’t have a pitcher who strikes fear in a hitter.”

"Eventlet is a concurrent networking library for Python that allows you to change how you run your code, not how you write it."

"Most existing Python modules for dealing HTTP requests are insane. I have to look up everything that I want to do."

"Ironing out the little problems can make it so companies can avoid big disasters."

"We see personal robots as the next paradigm-shifting personal productivity tool.  By investing in open source and open platform adoption models, we aim to lay the groundwork for the use of personal robotics applications in everyday life."

"The Bilibot Project is an effort to build an affordable robotics platform for educators, hobbyists and researchers. This project was started in late 2010, shortly after the release of the Microsoft Kinect, and was funded through a Kickstarter project in January 2011."

"Socket.IO aims to make realtime apps possible in every browser and mobile device, blurring the differences between the different transport mechanisms."

"Django-nonrel is an independent branch of Django that adds NoSQL database support to the ORM. The long-term goal is to add NoSQL support to the official Django release."

"SuperDuper is the wildly acclaimed program that makes recovery painless, because it makes creating a fully bootable backup painless."

"Quake-style terminal for MacOS X (Terminal.app SIMBL)"

"The book is a very beginner book for people who want to learn to code. If you can already code then the book will probably drive you insane. "

"Type your lists into TaskPaper and each line is formatted into a project, task, or note. TaskPaper doesn’t force a particular system on you; it provides you with basic to-do list elements and then you use them as you see fit."

"f.lux makes your computer screen look like the room you're in, all the time. When the sun sets, it makes your computer look like your indoor lights. In the morning, it makes things look like sunlight again."

"PhantomJS is a headless WebKit with JavaScript API. It has fast and native support for various web standards: DOM handling, CSS selector, JSON, Canvas, and SVG."

"Fast Python Bloom Filter using Mmap"

“The secret of success turns out to be so incredibly simple: Work your ass off.”

"Converts xslx xml excel files to csv format. It is fast, and works for huge xlsx files."