Pinboard - antisocial bookmarking

garrettc

2835

RSS

« earlier

[close]

select: none ‧ this page ‧ all pages no items selected

mark as read ‧ unread ‧ private ‧ public ‧ add stars ‧ remove stars ‧ delete

tag: add or remove tag

THIS IS BOILERPLATE confirm ‧ cancel

Sweep the Sleaze

"If you provide excellent content, social media users will take the time to read and talk about it in their networks. That’s what you really want. You don’t want a cheap thumbs up, you want your readers to talk about your content with their own voice."

facebook twitter socialmedia web socialnetworking socialsoftware wdcsintranet
11 minutes ago

copy to mine

Free Online Graph Paper and Grid Paper PDFs
design pdf resource grid
2 hours ago

copy to mine

The High Cost of Free

"What would you tweet if every tweet cost you a dollar?"

psychology web social society economics time
4 hours ago

copy to mine

Metafilter vege burger recipe thread
food recipe metafilter
yesterday

copy to mine

Avocado-chocolate pudding

Or chovocado. Very simple idea.

food pudding recipe toeat chocolate
3 days ago

copy to mine

How to make perfect smoked mackerel pâté
food recipe fish toeat
5 days ago

copy to mine

First, Understand Your Screen

The matter of screen size is not as simple and understood as you think.

css javascript mobile webdevelopment webdesign responsivedesign
5 days ago

copy to mine

The Best Online Editors for Teaching HTML/CSS/JS

Useful roundup of online editors.

css editor html javascript programming education resource
5 days ago

copy to mine

First Principle: Disambiguation

"Content plays a huge part in the ongoing communication between your users and your product, service, or brand, and as such it has a whole rich life after we carefully select it and place it in the public eye.

The computer systems that increasingly mediate our communication can either facilitate or hinder the flow of information. As professional communicators, we need to understand how well the content in the system keeps the conversation flowing, and how these communications are taking place." - Rachel Lovinger

content contentstrategy copywriting tagging metadata semantics semanticweb web wdcsintranet
5 days ago

copy to mine

Data Monday: Mobile Web Shopping

"The average impact of a one-second delay means a 7% reduction in e-commerce conversions." - Another great round up of mobile stats and research from Luke W.

ecommerce mobile conversion webdevelopment performance wdcsintranet
7 days ago

copy to mine

Avoid Ratios For Metrics – Moving Beyond Conversion Rates, Part 1

Jared Spool on why conversion rates are a dnagerous metric to rely on (hint, it's to do with ratios).

analytics business conversion metrics ecommerce web wdcsintranet
7 days ago

copy to mine

IBIS

Info-Biological Inadequacy Syndrome

sign funny humour from twitter_favs
8 days ago

copy to mine

Code refactoring

Code refactoring summed up:

funny animation anigif code programming from twitter
11 days ago

copy to mine

The Story of Send

I enjoyed Google's "The Story of Send". All the infrastructure that makes it possible to send an email:

internet google email infrastructure sysadmin animation video ecology from twitter
12 days ago

copy to mine

Bring your Alligator Bob

Never forget your alligator.

funny photo alligator turtle macro from twitter_favs
14 days ago

copy to mine

Doodle: easy scheduling

I can never remember the name of this thing, so I'm finally bookmarking it!

calendar collaboration meeting time office
14 days ago

copy to mine

How to find the right sample size for a Usability Test

There's a simple formula for finding your sample size.

analysis usertesting usability testing userexperience
14 days ago

copy to mine

Application Cache is a Douchebag

Lanyrd's Jake Archibald on LocalStorage and ApplicationCache, and the perils and pitfalls that await.

html5 localstorage applicationcache webdevelopment offline mobile
17 days ago

copy to mine

dexy

Python based documentation tool.

documentation python tool
18 days ago

copy to mine

Foundation framework

Rapid prototyping framework for responsive designs.

framework prototype webdevelopment webdesign responsivedesign tool
18 days ago

copy to mine

Things to see & do in Cambridge, MA before you die, aside from the education bit

Ask Metafilter thread on things to see in North Boston.

boston usa history architecture education travel city cooking food toeat
18 days ago

copy to mine

It’s Not Working For Me: #crit

Mark Boulton on design critiques. I don't have a formal background and this is one of those things I didn't realise I didn't know.

critique bestpractice design teamwork from twitter_favs
18 days ago

copy to mine

re-try

Neat tool for interactively playing with Python regular expressions.

python programming regularexpression testing tool from twitter_favs
19 days ago

copy to mine

In Flux

Some thoughts from Trent Walton on retina / pixel-dense screens. Takeaway idea, lets use more icon fonts. They scale beautifully.

webdesign retinadisplay hires font from twitter_favs
20 days ago

copy to mine

Principles of User Interface Design

Joshua Porter publishes the 20 principles he refers to most often.

webdesign userinterface userexperience interface principles
21 days ago

copy to mine

Barebones

Paul Robert Lloyd's bootstrap for a styleguide and pattern primer. Base don the one he uses on his own site.

bestpractice webdesign webdevelopment styleguide patterns
21 days ago

copy to mine

Building with content choreography

Using flexbox to reorder content at smaller resolutions.

css responsivedesign mobile webdesign webdevelopment flexbox from twitter_favs
21 days ago

copy to mine

Drupal Commerce Add To Cart Form Tweaks / Registration Improvements

Couple of examples of modifying the default Drupal Commerce suite behaviour.

drupal ecommerce webdevelopment cmf code php
22 days ago

copy to mine

The Art Of Tidying Up

Funny before and after pictures of situations that the artist Ursus Wehrli has 'tidied up'.

art entropy tobuy book
25 days ago

copy to mine

Parallel Sets

A visualisation technique for multidimensional categorical data.

javascript statistics data visualisation analysis webdevelopment
25 days ago

copy to mine

Common statistical fallacies
statistics data science logic psychology society
25 days ago

copy to mine

Float vs. Inline-Block

A very in-depth descriptions of the pros and cons of floats vs. inline-block.

css layout webdesign bugs from instapaper
25 days ago

copy to mine

iPad productivity apps

"The oft-repeated fallacy that the iPad isn’t a tool for productivity and creation has no credibility whatsoever" - Matt Gemmell

ipad apple creativity software from twitter_favs
26 days ago

copy to mine

Delivering INSIDE GOVERNMENT

Tips on running an effective agile project from the GDS team.

agile scrum projectmanagement bestpractice government govuk
26 days ago

copy to mine

Extreme Ice Survey

27 cameras are deployed at 18 glaciers in Greenland, Iceland, the Nepalese Himalaya, Alaska and the Rocky Mountains. These cameras record changes in the glaciers every half hour, year-round during daylight, yielding approximately 8,000 frames per camera per year.

nature photography science video timelapse glacier
27 days ago

copy to mine

Google Map Custom Marker Maker

An easier way to create custom markers for Google Maps API v3

mapping maps geodata geolocation webdevelopment google googlemaps
27 days ago

copy to mine

Just My Type

A collection of nice font stacks inspired by Typekit. Some paid, some free.

webdesign design typography inspiration
27 days ago

copy to mine

Typestacks

Curated typeface combinations for web & print.

design webdesign typography font inspiration
27 days ago

copy to mine

OMG SPACE

Using Visual.ly, OMG SPACE aims to illustrate the scale of our solar system, as well as illustrate the exploration of our solar system with various spacecraft.

space science solarsystem visualisation
28 days ago

copy to mine

Data Journalism Handbook

A free, open source reference book on the emerging field of data journalism.

data journalism opendata book publishing visualisation
29 days ago

copy to mine

How to be a better designer

"If you can’t draw as well as someone, or use the software as well, or if you do not have as much money to buy supplies, or if you do not have access to the tools they have, beat them by being more thoughtful. Thoughtfulness is free and burns on time and empathy." - Wonderful advice from Frank Chimero

advice designthinking design inspiration from twitter_favs
4 weeks ago

copy to mine

Top 10 Content Strategy Mistakes to Avoid

"Melissa Rach, coauthor of Content Strategy for the Web, Second Edition, sees far too many organizations making similar mistakes in their outreach attempts. The "throw it together" approach that most people employ tends to create havoc, rather than useful information for potential customers and clients. She shares 10 of the most common (and dangerous) pitfalls that everyone should learn to avoid."

contentstrategy copywriting content wdcsintranet bestpractice from twitter_favs
4 weeks ago

copy to mine

Object-orientation and inheritance in JavaScript: a comprehensive explanation

One of the best explanations I've seen.

javascript oop programming webdevelopment
4 weeks ago

copy to mine

Blambot

Free (for non-profit) and paid-for comic fonts and lettering.

design typography wdcs webdesign comic font
4 weeks ago

copy to mine

Sourcemap: visualizing supply-chains

Sourcemap visualises supply-chains for the consumer goods we buy. Some question over the data sources, but an interesting view on globalisation.

commerce business society research globalisation transport shipping supplychain from twitter_favs
4 weeks ago

copy to mine

CasperJS, a navigation scripting and testing utility for PhantomJS

An open source navigation scripting & testing utility written in Javascript and based on PhantomJS — the scriptable headless WebKit engine.

browser testing sysadmin webdevelopment javascript automation
5 weeks ago

copy to mine

How nth-child Works
css css3 webdesign
5 weeks ago

copy to mine

Useful :nth-child Recipes | CSS-Tricks

Because I can never have enough documentation for nth-child and nth-of-type expressions.

css css3 tips webdesign
5 weeks ago

copy to mine

Investment Account Agreement

Well written terms of use from ShareBuilder.com. Funny and clear. It's still stupidly long, but you've got to love a T&Cs page that contains phrases like "This section is a bit of a mixed bag. So, it may jump around a bit, but it's all important."

terms legal copywriting
5 weeks ago

copy to mine

De Niro, De faro

Funny.

image funny film comedy from twitter_favs
5 weeks ago

copy to mine

The Miso Project

An open source toolkit for the creation of high-quality interactive storytelling and data visualisation content.

data javascript library opensource
5 weeks ago

copy to mine

US Historical Topographic Map Collection

The U.S. Geological Survey released more than 161,000 digitally scanned historical maps spanning over 130 years.

geography history mapping maps geodata usa
5 weeks ago

copy to mine

Auditing Big Sites Doesn’t Have to Be Taxing

"At Brain Traffic, people often ask how we audit big websites—really big websites (anything from 20,000 to millions of pages). Truth be told, auditing these colossal sites is no small feat, but it can be done, and fairly quickly at that."

contentstrategy contentaudit projectmanagement content from instapaper
5 weeks ago

copy to mine

Drupal 7 Localization and the Commerce module

How to configure the Drupal Commerce module package for multiple countries and languages.

drupal webdevelopment i18n l10n internationalisation language
5 weeks ago

copy to mine

Rethinking the Mobile Web by Yiibu

"The abscence of support for @media queries is in fact the first @media query"

webdesign webdevelopment responsivedesign mediaqueries mobile presentation uxoxford2012
5 weeks ago

copy to mine

Peculiar

Free icon package made only in CSS

css css3 icon webdesign resource
5 weeks ago

copy to mine

CartoDB

An Open Source hosted geospatial platform. Supports visualising data on Google Maps, Mapbox tiles, Open Street Maps and many others.

database geo geolocation location maps mapping geodata analysis wdcs gis
5 weeks ago

copy to mine

iTextEditors

Comparison table of iPhone and iPad text/code editors and writing tools

editor ios review text markdown html
5 weeks ago

copy to mine

How to blog

A must-read for all writers, bloggers, journalists; both aspiring and working. From Boing Boing's Rob Beschizza.

blog writing creative copywriting advice wdcs wdcsintranet from twitter_favs
5 weeks ago

copy to mine

It’s time for Word to die

"A Word file is the story-fax of the early 21st century: cumbersome, inefficient, and a relic of obsolete assumptions about technology. It's time to give up on Word." - Hear hear!!

microsoft software word writing
5 weeks ago

copy to mine

Mobile Emulators and Simulators

Comprehensive resource list of hundreds of mobile emulators and simulators.

ios android emulator simulator webdevelopment responsivedesign toolkit mobile uxoxford2012
5 weeks ago

copy to mine

Four Modes of Seeking Information and How to Design for Them - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
from instapaper
6 weeks ago

copy to mine

Creating a Mobile-First Responsive Web Design

Brad Frost's brilliant and extensive tutorial on how to make a mobile-first responsive web design.

responsivedesign mobile bestpractice webdesign webdevelopment mediaqueries uxoxford2012 from twitter_favs
6 weeks ago

copy to mine

Nielsen is wrong on mobile

'Stripping out content from a mobile website is like a book author stripping out chapters from a paperback just because it's smaller. We use our phones for everything now; there's no such thing as "this is mobile content, and this is not."'

mobile responsivedesign userexperience webdevelopment webdesign
6 weeks ago

copy to mine

Incept Dates

Erin Kissane on life, death, Blade Runner and babies. Fantastic writer.

biology life erinkissane scifi writing writer inspiration from instapaper
7 weeks ago

copy to mine

Understanding :nth-child Pseudo-class Expressions

Has a handy table for when the maths side of your brain isn't quite working.

css webdevelopment reference webdesign
7 weeks ago

copy to mine

* { box-sizing: border-box } FTW

Makes responsive designs so much easier to edit when you know adding padding is not going to blow your layout.

css layout webdesign responsivedesign uxoxford2012
7 weeks ago

copy to mine

GDS design principles

Government Digital Services have published the initial draft of their guiding design principles: "Number 1: Start with Needs (user, not government)."

design government guidelines principles webdevelopment bestpractice wdcsintranet webdesign designthinking uxoxford2012
7 weeks ago

copy to mine

Switching Drupal Views Grid to unordered lists

Replacing the table markup with semantic lists.

drupal semantics markup html views from twitter_favs
7 weeks ago

copy to mine

COPE: Create Once, Publish Everywhere

How NPR built a adaptable workflow for their content.

cms contentstrategy mobile content webdevelopment publishing uxoxford2012
8 weeks ago

copy to mine

The Mobile Only Internet Generation

"22-25% of US and UK mobile internet users never of infrequently use the desktop internet"- The numbers jump even higher when you look at African countries.

mobile statistics research webdevelopment society
8 weeks ago

copy to mine

Rhetological Fallacies

Errors and manipulations of rhetoric and logical thinking.

philosophy visualisation
8 weeks ago

copy to mine

Method & Craft | Creating Harmonious Color Schemes

"Inspired by the mixing of paint or ink, try this method of tinting your color schemes to craft a perfectly harmonious palette for your projects."

video technique design craft Colour photoshop from twitter_favs
8 weeks ago

copy to mine

Entypo

Entypo is a set of 100+ carefully crafted pictograms available as an OpenType font, vector EPS and web font. All released for free under the Creative Commons license CC BY-SA.

webdesign font graphics resource
8 weeks ago

copy to mine

This is the web.

Brad Frost's three original "This is the web" slides in hi-res for use with attribution.

presentation responsivedesign mobile webdesign designthinking
8 weeks ago

copy to mine

Timeline

Open source Javascript based timeline generator with support for Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Vimeo, Google Maps and SoundCloud.