ImageOptim — make websites and apps load faster (Mac app)
"ImageOptim seamlessly integrates various optimisation tools: PNGOUT, AdvPNG, Pngcrush, extended OptiPNG, JpegOptim, jpegrescan, jpegtran, and Gifsicle."
images  web  ios  graphics  tools  compression 
26 days ago
Cubism.js
"Cubism.js is a D3 plugin for visualizing time series. Use Cubism to construct better realtime dashboards, pulling data from Graphite, Cube and other sources."
javascript  d3  visualization  time-series  graphics 
5 weeks ago
Mosh: the mobile shell
"Remote terminal application that allows roaming, supports intermittent connectivity, and provides intelligent local echo and line editing of user keystrokes. Mosh is a replacement for SSH. It's more robust and responsive, especially over Wi-Fi, cellular, and long-distance links."
mosh  ssh  shell  unix  terminal  protocol  remote  sysadmin 
5 weeks ago
Gliimpse
"Gliimpse is a quick preview technique that smoothly transitions between document markup code and its visual rendering."
editing  ui  visualization  interface  markup 
9 weeks ago
NaturalNode/natural · GitHub
Natural" is a general natural language facility for nodejs. Tokenizing, stemming, classification, phonetics, tf-idf, WordNet, string similarity, and some inflection are currently supported.
javascript  node.js  nlp  natural-language 
9 weeks ago
Font Awesome, the iconic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap
"Inspired by the Glyphicon set that comes with Twitter Bootstrap 2.0, Font Awesome is designed from scratch for a full array of web-related actions."
design  font  icons 
11 weeks ago
Why upgrading your Linux Kernel will make your customers much happier
Adjusting your TCP initial congestion window for better performance on slow links.
initcwnd  initial-congestion-window  tcp  network  performance 
11 weeks ago
Morris.js
"Making good-looking graphs shouldn't be hard. Morris.js is a lightweight library that uses jQuery and Raphaël to make drawing time-series graphs easy."
javascript  graphs  time-series  graphics  raphael 
11 weeks ago
History API - Dive Into HTML5
"The HTML5 history API lets you do this. Instead of triggering a full page refresh, you can use script to, in essence, download half a page. This illusion is tricky to pull off, and it requires some work on your part."
html5  ajax  urls  mark-pilgrim 
11 weeks ago
Stephen Wolfram Blog : The Personal Analytics of My Life
"And so now I have what is probably one of the world’s largest collections of personal data."
wolfram  quantified-self  data  time-series 
11 weeks ago
Behind the App: Repeat Timer Pro - Concept, Design, Marketing Strategy and its Results
"A behind-the-scenes look at the ideas and processes that went into the utility app - from concept and design to the marketing strategy and its results."
design  development  ios  marketing 
february 2012
Teensy USB Development Board
Tiny USB development board capable of implementing USB devices including keyboards and mice (HID devices).
electronics  hardware  microcontroller  usb  hid  keyboard  mouse 
february 2012
flotr2
"Flotr2 is a library for drawing HTML5 charts and graphs. It is a branch of flotr which removes the Prototype dependency and includes many improvements."
canvas  charts  javascript  library 
february 2012
NounProject
An ever-expanding collection of icons for everyday concepts.
icons  design  graphics  vector 
february 2012
jQuery TextExt Plugin
"TextExt is a plugin for jQuery which is designed to provide functionality such as tag input and autocomplete."
jquery  javascript  autocomplete  tags 
january 2012
Magic SysRq key - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The magic SysRq key is a key combination understood by the Linux kernel, which allows the user to perform various low level commands regardless of the system's state. It is often used to recover from freezes, or to reboot a computer without corrupting the filesystem."
linux  sysadmin  reboot  remote 
december 2011
Type study: Sizing the legible letter | The Typekit Blog
Using rems to size fonts in a less context-sensitive way.
css  css3  rem  sizing  webdev 
november 2011
Shapecatcher.com: Unicode Character Recognition
"Finding a specific character whose name you don't know is cumbersome. On shapecatcher.com, all you need to know is the shape of the character!"
unicode  character-set  recognition  machine-learning 
november 2011
murphlab - a history of the sky
"The rig consists of an old four-megapixel compact digital camera controlled by a small, low-power computer. I looked into some of the "netcams" that are available, but even the pricey ones had unimpressive image quality. On the other hand, my old Canon A520 takes pretty nice pictures."
time-lapse  photography  make  weather  embedded 
november 2011
A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
"I call this technology Pictures Under Glass. Pictures Under Glass sacrifice all the tactile richness of working with our hands, offering instead a hokey visual facade."
design  interaction  ui  essay 
november 2011
Redesigning the Country Selector - Baymard Institute
"Using principles of progressive enhancement we turn a standard drop-down into an advanced auto-complete field."
javascript  autocomplete  ui 
november 2011
Using the Mac OS X automounter - Blog - Use Your Loaf
"A quick tip on how to use the Mac OS X automount command to automatically mount a remote filesystem."
afp  os-x  automounter  automount  sysadmin 
november 2011
Sinatra Recipes
"Community contributed recipes and techniques for the Sinatra Web Framework."
sinatra  ruby  docs 
october 2011
Subtle Patterns | Free textures for your next web project
"Subtle Patterns is a collection of 88 high quality design patterns for
you to use freely."
design  graphics  textures  tiling  patterns 
october 2011
Apple Outsider » SJ
"The last of Steve’s five decades on this Earth ended up being his most accomplished by far. Remember that whenever you think your best days are behind you."
steve-jobs 
october 2011
Wikipedia Miner
"WikipediaMiner is a toolkit for tapping the rich semantics encoded within Wikipedia."
semantics  wikipedia  topics 
october 2011
SmartOS.org
"SmartOS incorporates the four most revolutionary OS technologies of the past decade — Zones, ZFS, DTrace and KVM — into a single operating system, providing an arbitrarily observable, highly multi-tenant environment built on a reliable, enterprise-grade storage stack."
virtualization  kvm  zfs  joyent 
october 2011
Why the Best Days of Open Hardware are Yet to Come « bunnie's blog
Bunnie Huang discussing the gap between a linear hardware growth curve and an exponential one (Moore's Law). As the exponential growth slows, the gap increases, providing a more stable environment for small-scale innovation.
electronics  hardware  open-source  moores-law  innovation  growth 
october 2011
Bootstrap, from Twitter
"Bootstrap is a toolkit from Twitter designed to kickstart development of webapps and sites.
It includes base CSS and HTML for typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids, navigation, and more."
css  design  framework  html  grid  layout 
august 2011
How to Use UTF-8 Throughout Your Web Stack
"every last part of the web-application stack will fight you on your quest towards UTF-8 purity. What follows is a playbook to win your pervasive-UTF-8 battle."
unicode  utf-8  mysql 
august 2011
Berkelium
"Berkelium is a BSD licensed library that provides off-screen browser rendering via Google's open source Chromium web browser."
browser  rendering  html  chrome  headless 
august 2011
Nervous System – explorations in generative design and natural phenomena » Blog Archive » Hyphae Lamps – an infinite series of lighting designs
"The Hyphae Lamp is a new series of algorithmically generated lighting designs by Nervous System. Each lamp is individually grown through a process based on leaf vein formation."
nature  algorithms  3d-printing  leaf  veins 
august 2011
OS X Lion: About Lion Recovery
"OS X Lion includes a new feature called Lion Recovery that includes all of the tools you need to reinstall Lion, repair your disk, and even restore from a Time Machine backup without the need for optical discs."
os-x  lion  mac  recovery  sysadmin 
july 2011
Why mobile apps suck when you're mobile (TCP over 3G)
"The graph above shows the round-trip time (RTT) for 1000 IP packets I traced over a supposed super-fast HSDPA connection while travelling on a train in the UK"
development  networking  mobile 
june 2011
Spark Cluster Computing Framework
"Spark is an open source cluster computing system that aims to make data analytics fast — both fast to run and fast to write."
scala  hadoop  map-reduce  data-mining 
june 2011
tmux
"tmux is a terminal multiplexer: it enables a number of terminals (or windows), each running a separate program, to be created, accessed, and controlled from a single screen. tmux may be detached from a screen and continue running in the background, then later reattached."
screen  sysadmin  terminal 
june 2011
Panabee: Website Name
"Panabee is a brainstorm engine for naming domains, mobile apps, and products"
domains  search  naming 
june 2011
TermKit
"I don't want the computer equivalent of a screwdriver and a hammer, I want a tricorder and a laser saw. TermKit is my attempt at making these better tools and addresses a couple of major pain points."
terminal  command-line  ui  gui  termkit 
may 2011
Glyphish – Great icons for great iPhone & iPad applications
"Icons for mobile apps
Designed and carefully optimized for iPhone & iPad apps, they're also perfect for Android apps, websites, t-shirts, tattoos and more."
icons  graphics  glyphs  font  iphone 
may 2011
Corpus-based word frequency lists, collocates, and n-grams
" It contains word frequency lists of the top 60,000 words (lemmas) in English, collocates lists (looking at nearby words to see word meaning and use), and n-grams (the frequency of all two and three-word sequences in the corpora)."
n-grams  words  nlp  machine-learning 
may 2011
SentiWordNet
"SentiWordNet assigns to each synset of WordNet three sentiment scores: positivity, negativity, objectivity."
wordnet  sentiment  nlp  machine-learning 
may 2011
apenwarr/sshuttle - GitHub
"Transparent proxy server that works as a poor man's VPN. Forwards over ssh. Doesn't require admin. Works with Linux and MacOS. Supports DNS tunneling."
vpn  tunnel  sysadmin  os-x  linux 
april 2011
d3.js
"D3 is not a traditional visualization framework. Rather than provide a monolithic system with all the features anyone may ever need, D3 solves only the crux of the problem: efficient manipulation of documents based on data."
d3  javascript  dom  visualization  graphics 
april 2011
PhantomJS
PhantomJS is a minimalistic headless WebKit.
webkit  headless  javascript 
april 2011
Solarized - EthanSchoonover.com
Colour scheme designed for ease of reading.
colour  scheme  colour-scheme 
april 2011
Bipolar Disorder: Light and Dark
Effect of blue light on sleep pattens, including lens recommendations
blue  blue-light  sleep 
april 2011
Media Queries
CSS media query layout examples
css  css3  media-queries  examples  gallery 
march 2011
furbo.org · Mac App Store guide
"The basic strategy is to create two build targets: one that creates everything for your own website, and another that creates the stuff Apple requires for the Mac App Store."
app-store  mac  os-x  howto  build 
march 2011
Pattern | CLiPS
"Pattern is a web mining module for the Python programming language."
nlp  toolkit  library  python 
march 2011
chriso/node.io - GitHub
"A distributed data scraping and processing framework"
node.js  javascript  parsing  scraping  html 
february 2011
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