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This started as a CSS-only side project, got some traction on Hacker News and is now one of the finest looking and working pieces of documentation for web development I've ever come across.
css  javascript  webdev  reference  tumbl 
december 2011 by jimray
The American List
Fantastic list of proudly made in the USA apparel that will keep you lookin' sharp from A Continuous Lean
clothing  tumbl 
september 2011 by jimray
Socketbug looks like a fantastic tool for debugging web apps
Built especially for devices that have almost no debugging utilities. Really clever approach, too.
debug  javascript  mobile  webdev  tumbl 
july 2011 by jimray
Ruby enVironment Manager looks a lot like Python's Virtualenv
I'm a huge fan of Virtualenv, nice to see something similar come to Ruby
ruby  webdev  tumbl 
august 2010 by jimray
The NYTPicker looks like a fair, thoughtful critique blog focused solely on the New York Times
Unlike the multitude of mouthfrothing right wingers or woe-is-me media-is-dying types, these people clearly want the Times to be the best it can be.
tumbl  media  nytimes  newspapers 
december 2009 by jimray
The New York Times takes a look at the SousVide Supreme
A $500 temperature control system for the low temperature water bath cooking that's all the rage. This strikes me as the prosumer version of sous vide, between the DIY methods people have cobbled together and the $2000 systems you'll find in a professional kitchen
cooking  kitchen  home  tumbl  wishlist 
december 2009 by jimray
Vedea is a visualization programming language from Microsoft
Inspired by processing, built on .Net's dynamic language runtime but simplified and targeted at non-programmers.
microsoft  visualization  dataviz  tumbl 
december 2009 by jimray
John "@zuhl" Deal has an awesome writeup on how to use an SSD drive with your Mac
Use the super fast solid state drive as your boot/OS/application drive, move your home folder for all your pictures and mp3s and whatnot somewhere else. Nicely done.
mac  hardware  ssd  performance  tumbl 
november 2009 by jimray
Sous vide supreme
A $400 immersion circulator for home use? Interesting.
cooking  home  kitchen  tumbl 
october 2009 by jimray
Wrapper is an HTML/CSS rendering engine written in Actionscript
I wonder if it supports the embed tag so you can embed Flash files inside the HTML that you're rendering inside of a Flash file.
flash  webdev  html  tumbl 
october 2009 by jimray
Google has a proposal for making AJAX crawlable
Seems pretty complex, though - requiring your site to run a headless browser that would render AJAX content as HTML to search engines?
google  ajax  webdev  tumbl 
october 2009 by jimray
Bloggers must disclose freebies
This strikes me as a good thing - bloggers have existed in an ethical gray zone for a while, many all too happy to reap the benefits of free stuff.
bloggers  ethics  business  tumbl 
october 2009 by jimray
Magazine publishers want to build a Hulu for print
Unlike music and video, though, most of the problems of delivering text and ads have already been figured out -- via the browser. Unless they're planning on shrouding their content in magical DRM that they expect to also be completely interoperable, in which case, best of luck with that.
magazines  print  media  tumbl 
october 2009 by jimray
Tamura Jones has a fantastic overview of Google Chrome Frame
What it is, how to detect and support it, how to force it via the Windows registry. Excellent, detailed overview - if you have to support IE, you should read this.
browsers  ie  google  chrome  chromeframe  tumbl 
october 2009 by jimray
If you were wondering what Six Apart was going to do with Pownce, it appears TypePad Motion is the answer
Looks more like Tumblr than Pownce, nee, Twitter, with a community sharing focus. Uses the TypePad API for storage so it's (theoretically) scalable.
python  django  sixapart  microblogging  tumbl 
october 2009 by jimray
Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Covers markup, CSS, javascript and client-side data storage. Appears to still be in progress but a fantastic resource thus far.
iphone  mobile  webdev  javascript  css  tumbl 
september 2009 by jimray
OneBusAway releases a native iPhone app
If you live in Seattle and ride the bus, you want this app. It's kind of magic how well it works, providing real time data about when your bus is going to actually show up, instead of just when it's supposed to.
seattle  masstransit  awesome  tumbl 
september 2009 by jimray
Google acquires reCAPTCHA
Seems like a somewhat natural fit with Google's "digitize the world" mission
google  tumbl 
september 2009 by jimray
NY Times gets pwnd by malicious adware
A scammer pretended to be a legit national advertiser, provided some legitimate ads for a week, then switched them to pop-up fake virus warnings over the weekend. The Times has suspended ads automatically inserted by third party ad-placement agencies.
advertising  nytimes  dumb  viruses  tumbl 
september 2009 by jimray
Google's working on micropayments
Will work as an extension to Google Checkout, a distant second also-ran to the near ubiquitous PayPal.
google  micropayments  media  tumbl 
september 2009 by jimray
Aviary is like Birdhouse but for Android
Built by Twitter luminary Ryan "@secretsquirrel" Bateman
birdhouse  twitter  android  mobile  tumbl 
september 2009 by jimray
iA's Web Trend Map is quite cool
Aggregates trends, presumably from Twitter, and then visualizes them in a map. I like the combination of macro aggregation and curation from trusted sources.
visualization  data  trends  tumbl 
september 2009 by jimray
The Hacker Journalists
I stood onstage with Mediashift's Mark Glaser a couple weeks ago and talked about what I do at my day job. This is a great rundown of what we talked about.
work  vanity  tumbl  media 
august 2009 by jimray
EveryBlock's new "custom neighborhoods" feature is awesome
Draw out the area you're interested in following instead of being limited to the official neighborhoods.
everyblock  local  awesome  tumbl 
august 2009 by jimray
Probably Bad News
News fails, because journalism isn't dying fast enough
media  fail  tumbl  funny 
august 2009 by jimray
The London Royal Opera House is using Twitter to write an opera
And, of course, it won't be over until the failwhale sings
opera  tumbl  twitter  art 
august 2009 by jimray
tr.im is shutting down
Turns out there's no money to be made in redirecting URLs. They claim that since they don't have an inside connection at Twitter, they have no motivation to continue developing features.
twitter  web  tumbl 
august 2009 by jimray
Transparency Corps
Latest project from the Sunlight Foundation. Like Mechanical Turk for government transparency.
government  politics  tumbl 
august 2009 by jimray
Consider the lobster trap
Probably the smartest thing written about Facebook yet
facebook  culture  media  social  tumbl 
july 2009 by jimray
The new NPR.org looks great
And add Scott Simon to the long list of people who look nothing like they sound on the radio
npr  design  media  webdev  tumbl 
july 2009 by jimray
Help make the Chicago Griddle Guide a reality
Chicago is one of my favorite towns to eat in, go help 'em out
chicago  food  tumbl 
july 2009 by jimray
Hype Machine's Twitter charts are pretty clever
The look not only at the most tweeted songs but assign a value to the tweeter, based on following/follower ratio, to find the good stuff.
twitter  music  smart  tumbl  social 
july 2009 by jimray
We Choose the Moon
Relive the Apollo 11 moon launch in real time with archival photos, video and audio. Really well done.
history  space  nasa  awesome  tumbl 
july 2009 by jimray
Google announces Chrome OS
Aimed at Netbooks, it's a new windowing system that runs Chrome, all on top of a linux kernel. Apps will all be web based and will run on any platform that Chrome does.
google  operatingsystems  browsers  tumbl 
july 2009 by jimray
Internet Explorer 8 - Nickelback edition
As best I can tell, this is a real thing. A hilariously stupid, real thing.
dumb  ie  browsers  tumbl 
july 2009 by jimray
Sputnik observatory, the latest Jonathan Harris joint, looks predictably great
Very nice, application-like use of Flash. The save-able, linkable paths look interesting but my favorite flourish is the logo.
data  visualization  video  culture  tumbl 
june 2009 by jimray
The 10 most hated online ad formats
No huge surprises here. Also, I wonder if BusinessInsider ran a usability test on dumping content in a lame slideshow format to gin up pageviews?
advertising  design  media  tumbl 
june 2009 by jimray
Flickr adds Twitter integration
Obviates the need for having your images at yet another place, like Twitpic
twitter  flickr  tumbl  awesome 
june 2009 by jimray
Your Publication Can Suck As Badly As TechCrunch
Make money and destroy your credibility in four easy steps
techcrunch  media  punditry  tumbl 
june 2009 by jimray
Hulu desktop looks pretty badass
Also helps explain the whole Boxee unpleasantness.
hulu  media  tv  entertainment  tumbl 
may 2009 by jimray
Google embraces embeds
Much like embedding YouTube videos, now all kinds of Google apps can be embed anywhere.
google  webdev  tumbl 
may 2009 by jimray
Infinite Summer
Some of my favorite writers (Matthew Baldwin and Avery Edison amongst them) are reading Infinite Jest this summer. This is a swell idea, one I'll happily try to participate in.
writing  reading  books  awesome  tumbl 
may 2009 by jimray
Pope encourages young to use internet
Well, now that the Pope's behind it, I'm sure this internet thing will take right off
dumb  religion  funny  tumbl 
may 2009 by jimray
"An expanded study of bicycle behavior in Midtown Manhattan has found that 'a large number of cyclists routinely disobey many traffic laws.'”
I hate bad drivers because their carelessness can seriously injure people but clueless cyclists aren't much better.
city  tumbl  biking 
may 2009 by jimray
Threadless gets in on the tweets as tees idea
Submit tweets that get voted on, winners get $500 or $140. Unlike twitshirt, not any tweet can be a tee.
twitter  threadless  tshirts  tumbl 
may 2009 by jimray
People with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor
Genetic mutation turned off the ability to make brown eyes, about 6,000 - 10,000 years ago
science  genetics  tumbl 
may 2009 by jimray
New Danger Mouse CD released as a blank CD-R
An unnamed dispute with EMI means the actual CD won't be released. EMI is, of course, the label that owns the copyright on The White Album and sued to keep The Grey Album from being released.
music  copyright  dumb  tumbl 
may 2009 by jimray
Lens, the New York Times' visual journalism blog, looks nice
Clean design that highlights the photos well. I like the forward/backward hinting and the full screen mode in particular.
photography  weblogs  nytimes  media  tumbl 
may 2009 by jimray
Newsweek is framing links to external sites/partners with their very own DiggBar
I have no clue if this is a previously agreed upon partnership thing or if they're treating all external links like this but it looks pretty lame.
media  web  dumb  newsweek  magazines  tumbl 
may 2009 by jimray
Frank Bruni is moving on from restaurant reviews
Will now write for the New York Times magazine and publish his memoir later this summer
nytimes  nyc  food  writing  writers  tumbl 
may 2009 by jimray
The browser address bar as the new command line
I've been using Firefox's custom search feature for command line like functionality for years now. It's also slightly hackable for commonly used shortcuts on work projects.
commandline  web  browsers  tumbl 
may 2009 by jimray
Times Wire, a Digg-spy/Twitter-like news feed
Smart work from the New York Times, strikes the right balance between customization and new content. I wonder, though, if there will be enough updates to keep watchers happy.
media  nytimes  tumbl 
may 2009 by jimray
Ask MetaFilter’s best introductory books
Really fantastic breakdown of the best introductory books in a given field. Surprised there's nothing for web design/development, though.
metafilter  books  howto  work  tumbl 
may 2009 by jimray
I have no immediate use for Hatchet but I adore how it handles OpenID
Yeah, a nerdy thing to love about a site, but hot damn does it work well
openid  kindle  tumbl 
april 2009 by jimray
Google profiles are a way to claim your identity
Add contact information about yourself to be more findable. Take THAT, Facebook.
google  social  identity  tumbl 
april 2009 by jimray
Holy crap, Google's news timeline was built by Andy Hertzfeld
Yeah, *that* Andy Hertzfeld. Pretty slick news visualization.
google  design  media  tumbl  visualization 
april 2009 by jimray
Sign in with Twitter
Looks like Twitter's OAuth implementation is getting ready to go
oauth  webdev  twitter  authentication  tumbl 
april 2009 by jimray
OpenSecrets has released 20 years of data, for free
This is pretty incredible - campaign finance and lobbying data going back to 1989, in a scrubbed CSV. They also offer a number of APIs and enhanced politician profiles.
politics  awesome  money  data  transparency  tumbl 
april 2009 by jimray
Pixar's next film, 'Up' will premier at and open Cannes
The first for an animated film; still no word if it will be eligible for judging
film  pixar  tumbl 
march 2009 by jimray
Internet Explorer 8: History of the internet
Microsoft must've realized that anything serious would've just been torn apart. This is actually pretty damn good.
microsoft  browsers  ie  funny  tumbl 
march 2009 by jimray
Google Reader hacks
Kottke's got a great Google Reader setup, via Fluid and Helvetireader
rss  tumbl 
march 2009 by jimray
Trent Reznor explains how Ticketmaster and Live Nation are going to screw you over even more
Well written, clear piece on the problem with big ticket live shows. Basically, Ticketmaster could stop scalping but there's too much money for them to lose and they're likely to simply skip the middle man and move to a straight auction system for at least some of their tickets in the not too distant future.
evil  music  money  tumbl 
march 2009 by jimray
Pantscast - For Serious Audiophiles Only.
I've tested this on You Look Nice Today and it didn't seem to work. Unless all of those odd sounds weren't actually being generated by Merlin...
mobile  podcasting  apps  fart  tumbl 
march 2009 by jimray
Mike D has a great post on the end of the Seattle P-I
A thoughtful, respectful but realistic look at the news business. Dispenses with easy snark and instead focuses on the future of media.
newspapers  business  media  economy  tumbl 
march 2009 by jimray
Rands has a great bit on the art of Twitter
Anyone tasked with explaining Twitter to everyone else who doesn't get it should give this a few reads.
twitter  social  culture  tumbl 
march 2009 by jimray
A San Francisco assemblyman wants to regulate and tax marijuana
Tax revenue from California's biggest cash crop could be just what the state needs to get out of debt. Since that referendum process seems so adept at creating great legislation, why not take it to the people?
legal  drugs  marijuana  economy  tumbl 
february 2009 by jimray
Jobless hit with bank fees on benefits
Citigroup, Bank of America, JPMorgan and US Bancorp are charging fees to access unemployment benefits. This is why I'm moving all of my accounts from Bank of America to E-trade.
banks  evil  tumbl  economy  finance  money 
february 2009 by jimray
"Techcrunch are full of shit"
Grammatically, I prefer "is full of shit" but that's just one of those delightful Britishisms. The sentiment is still the same as it ever was.
music  techcrunch  dumb  media  awesome  tumbl 
february 2009 by jimray
Techcrunch acuses Last.fm of colluding with the RIAA on the leaked U2 album
Last.fm categorically denies the claim and says Techcrunch just made the story up. A new low, even for tech reporting.
dumb  music  riaa  techcrunch  tumbl 
february 2009 by jimray
Climate friendly dining
It turns out that beef, especially grass-fed, is a major contributor to global warming and reducing our consumption of it would have a major impact on reducing carbon emissions.
food  climatechange  tumbl  environment  science 
february 2009 by jimray
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