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John's Phone
The iPod Shuffle of phones. See also jitterbug.
phone  minimalist  electronics  mobile  from delicious
november 2010
Papers.app
Absolutely beautiful app for organizing academic papers.
app  mac  research  from delicious
september 2010
Rails and Scaling with Multiple Databases
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
Brain Crack
Perhaps the best video in all of the show with ze frank
inspiration  humor  static  ideas  from delicious
may 2010
Thoughts on Flash
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
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
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
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
Clothes Discarded by H and M in Manhattan Are First Destroyed
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
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
"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
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
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
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
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
december 2009
On Baked Potatoes
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
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
I, Pencil
Leonard E. Read essays on the miracle of the modern pencil and what it teaches us about society.
forever-book  capitalism  society  essay  static  from delicious
june 2009
Set JAVA_HOME for sudo to install rjb gem
Alex Chaffee presents a bit of unix magic to get the rjb gem to install under OS X
ruby  mac  magic  gem  rjb  from delicious
june 2009
Why We Began Blogging
Shawn Blanc begs us to write passionately
passion  blog  beautiful  from delicious
june 2009
Helvetireader
Helvetireader is a userscript that pares gReader to bare essentials and restyles into elegance.
google-reader  helvetica  userscript  hack  from delicious
may 2009
Eastgate: Cloth Journals
Amazing journals with truly beautify paper, backing and binding.
beautiful  book  journal  artisan  gift_list  sage  from delicious
may 2009
Tor
The Tor project provides a powerful anonymizing proxy build on onion routing
privacy  anonymity  security  cryptography  onion-routing  networking  proxy  from delicious
may 2009
Wi-Fi to Go, No Cafe Needed
Pogue talks about the MiFi, a battery powered 3G-to-WiFi bridge, and forsees ubiquitous internet.
ubiquitous-computing  computer  personal-area-network  digital-divide  networking  evdo  wifi  3g  802.11  from delicious
may 2009
iPods, First Sale, President Obama, and the Queen of England
The EFF discusses the legal impact of Obama's gift of an iPod to the Queen of England, focusing on first sale, fair use and breach of contract.
law  copyright  obama  eff  intellectual-property  from delicious
april 2009
37BetterBank
37signals shows how they would design the dashboard page for an online bank with clear information, useful actions, and simple navigation.
37signals  design  inspiration  computer  static  user_experience  user_interface  usability  from delicious
february 2009
I, Cringely
Tech columnist Robert X Cringely's column on what's happening in technology & what it will mean.
technology  computer  syndicated  blog  from delicious
july 2008
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