The Transparency Grenade
3 days ago
Surveillance doesn't get any more beautiful than this.
static
design
privacy
from instapaper
3 days ago
Attention and Focus
6 days ago
Andre on focusing on the task you're working on while leaving enough attention to identify things you'll need to respond to
static
attention
productivity
6 days ago
The infographic that saved a million lives?
6 days ago
Even the rich can be moved by great design
static
design
information-visualization
6 days ago
Ember.js
7 days ago
AKA SproutCore 2.0. Builds on jQuery and Handlebars with bindable objects and enumerables for in browser applications.
javascript
framework
reference
7 days ago
Shoes and software
4 weeks ago
"Does it look good, does it feel good, is it comfortable, is it clear, is it easy?"
static
software
design
aesthetics
from instapaper
4 weeks ago
My Head is in the Cloud
4 weeks ago
What happens when you let the computer remember everything for you.
static
external-storage
transhumanism
cloud
memory
from instapaper
4 weeks ago
Why I Am Against Software Patents
4 weeks ago
"[F]or some of the proposed inventions, there may only be a handful of people in the world qualified to actually make a judgment on whether a development is sufficiently innovative so as to justify a patent. None of those people, presumably, will be employed by the patent office."
Which reminds me, whoever hired Einstein really deserved a bonus.
static
intellectual-property
patents
pragmatism
from instapaper
Which reminds me, whoever hired Einstein really deserved a bonus.
4 weeks ago
Feinstein: Senate Panel's Probe of CIA Torture Program Concludes It Was "Far More Widespread and Systematic Than We Thought" | Truthout
10 weeks ago
"...Coercive and abusive treatment of detainees in U.S. custody was far more systematic and widespread than we thought."
static
accountability
torture
from instapaper
10 weeks ago
Mark Schmitt Reviews Suzanne Mettler's "The Submerged State"
10 weeks ago
Government accountability is hard. Accountability without knowing what must be accounted for is impossible.
static
politics
accountability
from instapaper
10 weeks ago
Don't Be A Free User (Pinboard Blog)
10 weeks ago
Like a service? Make them charge you or show you ads. If they won’t do it, clone them and do it yourself. Soon you’ll be the only game in town!
static
profit
business
sustainability
from instapaper
10 weeks ago
Coilhouse » Blog Archive » In Defense of H&M’s Fembots
10 weeks ago
Replacing the product modeling industry with a shell script might not be terrible.
static
future
uncanny-valley
from instapaper
10 weeks ago
What Every C Programmer Should Know About Undefined Behavior
august 2011
Or: how I learned to stop worrying and love performance optimizations at all costs.
static
c
dark-magic
from instapaper
august 2011
The Future of Web Startups
april 2011
Or perhaps: the wisdom of getting faster, cheaper and more out of control
static
startups
futurism
from instapaper
april 2011
Push Email to an iPhone from a Linux IMAP Server
april 2011
Just pretend to be exchange.
email
push
iphone
static
april 2011
active_sanity
april 2011
You know you've been meaning to run your validations against your existing data. Now you don't have an excuse to wait.
rails
development
repo
validation
april 2011
TDD Anti-Patterns
march 2011
Not that you might suffer any of these.
static
development
testing
antipattern
from instapaper
march 2011
Must Be Nice
march 2011
Just because it looks nice to watch doesn't mean it isn't hard to live.
perspective
static
relative-value
from instapaper
march 2011
Chameleon
march 2011
IconFactory's open-source port of UIKit to Mac, made for the most recent release of Twitterific. Very likely as awesome as twitterific, and a brief look into how industry pros write Objective-C in the large.
development
static
mac
march 2011
DocRaptor
march 2011
Who wouldn't pay to have someone else deal with converting to Excel and PDF
service
excel
pdf
march 2011
Mac App Store guide
march 2011
For when you want to actually get that app into the app store
development
mac
static
march 2011
Lived Fast, Died Young, Left a Tired Corpse
march 2011
“I'd like to think that when Facebook – the next Google and Microsoft rolled into one – goes public in early 2012, the markets will react rationally. More likely, people will all collectively lose their damn minds again and we'll be thrust into a newer, bigger, even more insane tech bubble than the first one.”
internet
static
claimchowder
march 2011
Implementing Open Standards in Open Source
march 2011
Boring, yet important. See also GIF, MP3 and H.264
static
law
patent
copyright
standards
open_source
from instapaper
march 2011
Command-line OVF Deployments
march 2011
VMWare dev blog has instructions for totally automating the deployment and configuration of virtual appliances to vSphere servers
vmware
virtualization
administration
static
march 2011
Frink
january 2011
Designed specifically for physical calculations, it keeps track of units of measure like Calories or megatons.
programing
language
january 2011
Server monitoring with e-mail, SMS, iPhone, Android alerts - Server Density
december 2010
interesting monitoring service with an iOS app
monitoring
service
from delicious
december 2010
John's Phone
november 2010
The iPod Shuffle of phones. See also jitterbug.
phone
minimalist
electronics
mobile
from delicious
november 2010
TSA Enhanced Screening Procedures Explained
november 2010
It all makes so much sense now.
video
tsa
enhanced-screening
pat-down
security
security-theater
from delicious
november 2010
Papers.app
september 2010
Absolutely beautiful app for organizing academic papers.
app
mac
research
from delicious
september 2010
Anatomy of a feature
july 2010
Simmons is clear, it's never as simple as it seems.
static
complexity
architecture
style
development
july 2010
Rails and Scaling with Multiple Databases
june 2010
Ryan Tomayko explains how Planwatch uses multiple databases for performance and how to do it in Rails
databases
development
rails
ruby
performance
postgresql
postgres
database
static
from delicious
june 2010
I feel lucky for “find Chuck Norris”
may 2010
Google knows: Chuck Norris finds you.
google-bomb
hack
prank
humor
from delicious
may 2010
Stack Overflow question: “Trust metrics and related algorithms”
may 2010
No answers yet. Perhaps a narrower question would help?
reputation
dynamic
trust
from delicious
may 2010
Brain Crack
may 2010
Perhaps the best video in all of the show with ze frank
inspiration
humor
static
ideas
from delicious
may 2010
Thoughts on Flash
april 2010
Jobs own words on why flash isn't the future. Want portability? Use HTML. Want custom features? Use cocoa. Case closed.
static
apple
flash
html
from delicious
april 2010
The Data-Driven Life
april 2010
Gary Wolf gives a glance into the motives of the life loggers and self trackers.
static
attention
analysis
statistics
from delicious
april 2010
Distributed vs. Fault Tolerant Systems
april 2010
Joe Stump invokes the CAP Theorem to explain why master/slave and sharding != distributed.
programming
databases
distributed
static
from delicious
april 2010
Points for everyone
march 2010
If any reputation system I build is as nifty as this Ctrl+Alt+Del distopia, I think I win.
reputation
comic
static
from delicious
march 2010
humble software development - Finance Financial Graphs
march 2010
Lovely charting, without the flash.
canvas
html
graphing
from delicious
march 2010
Real Estate on Rails (Working with RETS Data)
january 2010
Brian Getting shows a good way to sync bad data.
rets
rets4r
ruby
development
static
from delicious
january 2010
Clothes Discarded by H and M in Manhattan Are First Destroyed
january 2010
For some reason, destroying a product when people won't pay the label price (which is almost entirely for "added-value") reminds me of patents and DRM. Is there a word for waste knowledge?
economics
capitalism
waste
static
property
from delicious
january 2010
Going Nuts with CSS Transitions
december 2009
Lovely demo with twisting, zooming, shadows and real fonts. So the new web has video, audio, vector graphics, transforms, real fonts and competition between implementors. Have we caught up with flash yet?
css
css3
transform
design
standards
web
static
from delicious
december 2009
Jay Hathaway Doesn't Do Content, He Writes
december 2009
"You may be a writer if: the right words keep you up nights." See also: hell, yes.
writing
static
inspiration
passion
from delicious
december 2009
The Credentialed Account Provisioning Anti-Pattern
december 2009
Johannes Ernst points out the trouble of usernames, passwords, and account numbers decreed from on high. The solution? OpenID, of course.
openid
static
anti-pattern
from delicious
december 2009
Peer review and open science
december 2009
Michael Jennings' take on how tech has let researchers route around the slow peer-review process.
research
static
from delicious
december 2009
America in Afghanistan Since 2001
december 2009
Ze Frank presents more information in five minutes than I'd grasped from mainstream news in almost a decade.
video
war
static
afganistan
from delicious
december 2009
Criticism, Cheerleading, and Negativity
december 2009
Alex Payne on embracing your harsh critics:
"Cheerleaders aren’t in love with your business. They care about your business, but from an emotional distance. If you treat them wrong, they’ll disappear and find a newer, happier company to cheerlead at. Critics, conversely, won’t just weather the storm with you, they’ll show up on Monday with a plan for a better umbrella. Who do you want to work with?"
passion
criticism
static
from delicious
"Cheerleaders aren’t in love with your business. They care about your business, but from an emotional distance. If you treat them wrong, they’ll disappear and find a newer, happier company to cheerlead at. Critics, conversely, won’t just weather the storm with you, they’ll show up on Monday with a plan for a better umbrella. Who do you want to work with?"
december 2009
On Baked Potatoes
december 2009
Tim Bray waxes eloquent on tubers, while managing to reference Battlestar Galactica, Pascal, and his ancestry.
potatoes
cooking
static
food
from delicious
december 2009
WiebeTech HotPlug
december 2009
Tools to switch from one power source to another. Like when you're seizing a computer with encryption. Ingenious. Be sure to check the videos.
security
computer
forensics
from delicious
december 2009
EtherPad is Back Online Until Open Sourced
december 2009
Most telling line, “We do realize (as does the Google Wave team) that Wave doesn't yet have all the functionality you rely on, and isn't yet as mature as EtherPad.”
etherpad
opensource
webapps
static
december 2009
Carnitas, Houston style
october 2009
Lisa Fain delivers a hell of a carnitas recipe. She says it's Houston style, but don't hold it against her.
carnitas
cooking
pork
food
static
october 2009
Ruby on Rails Rake Tutorial (aka. How rake turned me into an alcoholic) | Rails Envy
october 2009
Greg Pollack gives straightforward instructions to write periodic tasks for rails apps.
rails
ruby
rake
cron
static
october 2009
Creating a Blocks-Based Object System in C
october 2009
Mike Ash tinkers with getting inheritance and polymorphism from C block closures. It's much more prototypical and functional than c++ or objective-c. Totally inefficient, though.
apple
c
object-oriented
inheritance
polymorphism
static
october 2009
Rails Searchable API Doc
october 2009
Beautiful, simple stying to the ruby on rails documentation
rails
documentation
api
ruby
october 2009
staple / unstaple
september 2009
Prototype of a new crypto primitive function: the all-or-nothing transform. If you know the difference between a stream and a block cipher, this is a big deal.
cryptography
research
static
september 2009
A black OS X Leopard Terminal theme that is actually readable
september 2009
Makes unix geeks weak in the knees, myself included. I'm glad for it every time I open a terminal.
command-line
unix
mac
terminal
color-scheme
aesthetic
static
configuration
september 2009
Rise of the Tablog
september 2009
Nick Cernis has given up on tabloid style blog crap. Don't make it, don't suffer it. There's something better out there. Promise.
style
aesthetic
writing
creativity
making
static
september 2009
Stacey, Simplified portfolios
september 2009
“No database setup or installation files, simply drop the application on a server and it runs. Your content is managed by creating folders and editing text files. No login screens, no ‘cms’.”
webapps
cms
september 2009
There Is No Magic, There Is Only Awesome (Part 1)
september 2009
Jamis Buck begins a series that seems to investigate why it's so important to really know what goes into the beautiful things around you, building what seemed like magic into a practical art, down into a rigorous science.
art
learning
mastery
static
inspiration
september 2009
Why I’m Done Making Desktop Applications
september 2009
Patrick McKenzie explains why he'll never develop a desktop application again. Considering his profit margin and shorter implementation time, it's hard to blame him.
static
development
webapps
business
september 2009
Until Medical Bills Do Us Part
august 2009
Buried in this NYT sob story about health care lies a real nugget: 62% of all US bankrupcies are from medical bills, 78% of those had insurance. Even my libertarian streak doesn't know what to do with that.
heath-insurance
static
august 2009
The Smart Platform and Javascript
august 2009
Jason Hoffman gives a high level overview of the Joyent Smart Platform.
joyent
javascript
platform
static
hosting
august 2009
Joyent Smart Platform
august 2009
Like heroku+sinatra, but in javascript. Probably way more important than I'm making it out to be.
hosting
cloud
javascript
git
platform
joyent
august 2009
RFC 4340 - Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP)
august 2009
One possible protocol for a distributed virtual worlds signaling messages. Not that I'm working on that sort of thing.
protocols
transport
internet
static
august 2009
Support New TLDs
august 2009
Including .green, .berlin, .gay, .food and best of all .horse.
domains
tld
dns
internet
august 2009
2600
37signals
3g
802.11
abortion
accessibility
accountability
address
administration
advertising
aesthetic
aesthetics
afganistan
alternative-reality
analysis
anonymity
anti-pattern
antipattern
antlr
api
app
app-store
apple
arabic
architecture
art
article
artisan
athiesm
attention
audio
authentication
awesome
bank
beautiful
behaviour-driven-development
blog
blogging
boo
book
bookmarks
books
boston
brand
britney-spears
browsers
browsing
build_automation
business
c
c#
c++
caja
canvas
capabilities
capitalism
carnitas
change-congress
cheap
checking
chef
china
china:enforcement
chinese
claimchowder
clothing
cloud
cms
coffee
color-scheme
comic
command-line
community
complexity
computer
computer-science
configuration
contacts
continuous_integration
cooking
copyright
costa-rica
crafts
creativity
crema
criticism
critique
cron
cryptography
css
css3
culture
daily
dark-magic
data-format
data-structures
database
databases
dating
defense
deployment
design
designer
desk
development
dhtml
digital-divide
distributed
diy
dns
documentation
domains
dumbrella
dyamic
dynamic
economics
editing
education
eff
electronics
email
employment
encouragement
enhanced-screening
espresso
essay
essays
etherpad
ethics
etymology
evangelism
evdo
event
evolution
excel
experiment
external-storage
fabrication
facebook
fail
fair-use
feed-aggregators
feeds
fever
fiction
fighting
finance
flash
focus
food
forensics
forever-book
framework
furniture
future
futurism
game
gem
gift_list
git
google-bomb
google-reader
government
graphing
gtd
hack
hacks
hci
heath-insurance
helvetica
hiring
hosting
html
html5
http
humor
ideas
identity
implementations
independence
information-architecture
information-visualization
information_architecture
informationArchitecture
infoviz
inheritance
inspiration
intellectual-property
intelligence
interfaces
internet
interviewing
investigation
iphone
javascript
journal
joyent
json
keen
kerberos
knives
language
lasers
law
ldap
learning
lemur
lessig
licensing
life
linked-data
linux
long-now
mac
magic
making
management
maps
marketing
mastery
mbunit
meaning
medicine
meeting
memes
memory
minimalist
mobile
mocking
monitoring
morality
mortgage
motivation
msbuild
music
negativity
nerds
networking
news
notes
obama
object-oriented
onion-routing
open-source
open-web
open_source
openid
openid-relying-party
openness
opensource
operations
ops
paranoia
parsing
passion
password
passwords
pat-down
patent
patents
patterns
pdf
performance
personal-area-network
perspective
persuasion
philosophy
phone
php
physics
piercing
platform
politics
polymorphism
popularity
pork
portability
postgres
postgresql
potatoes
powershell
practice
pragmatism
prank
pretty
printing
privacy
pro
processing
productivity
profit
programing
programming
project-management
projects
property
protocols
proxy
puppet
purpose
push
rails
rails-tutorial
rake
recommendations
redesign
reference
regular_expression
relative-value
religion
replication
repo
reputation
research
responsibility
resume
rets
rets4r
reuse
review
reviews
rhinomocks
rjb
rspec
ruby
russia
sage
sales
sasl
schemas
schneier
science
science-fiction
security
security-theater
semantic-web
semantics
seminar
seo
service
services
sharepoint
shirts
showmanship
slackware
social-collapse
socialization
society
software
specs
sql
sqlite
sta
standards
startup
startups
static
statistics
store
story
style
subculture
subversion
surveillance
survey
sustainability
sxsw
syndicated
tactics
teaching
technology
terminal
testing
text-editing
the-deck
tipping
tld
tool
toon
torture
transform
transhumanism
transport
travel
trip-to-origin
trust
tsa
tulsa
tutorial
twitter
ubiquitous-computing
uncanny-valley
unix
uris
usability
user_experience
user_interface
userscript
validation
video
vim
virtualization
vmware
war
waste
web
webapps
webfinger
webkit
what_is_wrong_with_me_anyway
wifi
wii
wiki
wireless
wishlist
wolfram
wolfram-alpha
wordpress
writing
xml
xsd