A VC: The Management Team - Guest Post From Joel Spolsky
"The “management team” isn’t the “decision making” team. It’s a support function. You may want to call them administration instead of management, which will keep them from getting too big for their britches."
management  work  joelspolsky 
9 days ago
musicForProgramming();
"A series of mixes intended for listening while programming to aid concentration and increase productivity (also compatible with other activities)."
music  via:tomtaylor 
15 days ago
The Death of the Cyberflâneur - NYTimes.com
"Frictionless sharing has the same drawback as “effortless poetry”: its final products are often intolerable. It’s one thing to find an interesting article and choose to share it with friends. It’s quite another to inundate your friends with everything that passes through your browser or your app, hoping that they will pick something interesting along the way."
via:blech  art  social  culture  history  from instapaper
16 days ago
Lanyrd's Simon Willinson on Today's Web Stack
Why Varnish, Celery, Solr, and Redis are the new LAMP according to @lanyrd founder @simonw http://t.co/ASu0gxin #Linux #LAMP
from instapaper
20 days ago
Chinese Computing Information
"Chinese Encoding and Language Tags". This is going to be fun.
web  language  chinese 
22 days ago
Statistics and Scrabble, Together At Last - A.C. Thomas, Scientist
"One goal of this was to figure out how much of the variance in score comes from the tile order and how much comes from the board, given that a tile order would be expected. It turns out to be about half-bag, half-board. [...] The blank is worth about 30 points to a good player. [...] The Q is a burden to whichever player receives it, effectively serving as a 5 point penalty."
games  scrabble  maths  via:kevan 
26 days ago
DocumentUp
"Parses your readme's markdown into a clean and simple documentation website. Made especially for your gh-pages branch, all you need is a single index.html file that includes the DocumentUp script."
web  documentation  git  github  html  markdown 
27 days ago
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Making form-filling faster, easier and smarter
Note to <input x-autocompletetype=email> http://t.co/txxGGiuY beware Tim Berners-Lee’s standards-avenging ninjas bit.ly/vZvzrY
web  forms  autocomplete  from instapaper
28 days ago
Paul Catherall
London-based printmaker and illustrator. Needs a new, non-Flash site.
architecture  prints  linocut  london 
29 days ago
Signs You Aren’t Really Building a Minimum Viable Product | 22 idea street
a lot of the value of an MVP is testing the risky assumptions every startup has
web  business  mvp  from instapaper
4 weeks ago
LukeW | Touch Gesture Reference Guide
"Contains: 1) an overview of the core gestures used for most touch commands 2) how to utilize these gestures to support major user actions 3) visual representations of each gesture to use in design documentation and deliverables 4) an outline of how popular software platforms support core touch gestures."
web  mobile  design  ui  touch  iphone  reference  ux 
4 weeks ago
Microsoft keeps it old-school with a pricey text adventure game, Visual Studio 2010
"If it all gets a bit much, Visual Studio 2010 does include a pleasing beginners' mode where, instead of typing spells, they can be drawn using a convenient drag-and-drop interface. This GUI gameplay eschews much of the complexity of the full game—the compiler gatekeeper is almost always happy, and few bugs will lurk in the resulting dungeons—but works well as a way of learning how to craft spells."
development  microsoft  arstechnica  visualstudio  gamification 
4 weeks ago
nicolas33/offlineimap - GitHub
"Read/sync your IMAP mailboxes". Using this to back up Gmail.
backup  email  imap  python  tools 
5 weeks ago
LiveReload
"Monitors changes in the file system. As soon as you save a file, it is preprocessed as needed, and the browser is refreshed."
web  css  development  mac 
5 weeks ago
Now Playing
Unofficial app showing the current BBC 6Music playlist.
screens  secondaryattention  music 
5 weeks ago
Dual citizenship: Dutchmen grounded | The Economist
I guess I might not be going for dual English/Dutch nationality after all, then.
via:blech  citizenship 
5 weeks ago
jorgebastida/glue - GitHub
"A simple command line tool to generate CSS sprites".
web  css  sprites 
6 weeks ago
Peter Grundy
"Peter Grundy carries on the work of Grundy & Northedge, explaining life imaginatively and individually in words and pictures, for clients who seek invention and imagination."
design  illustration  informationdesign 
6 weeks ago
scriptogr.am
"A simple online tool that converts static Markdown text files located in your Dropbox, into a beautiful web log."
blog  dropbox  markdown  web 
6 weeks ago
mrappleton/perch-bootstrap - GitHub
"A very simple framework for building Perch websites"
web  perch 
6 weeks ago
WeeNudge | Teach your clients about the mysteries of the web
Send a link to clients, rather than writing something yourself.
clients  design  education  web 
6 weeks ago
Present & annotate design concepts | Onotate
Likely alternative to the rough ConceptShare.
design  feedback  tools 
6 weeks ago
rflynn/imgmin - GitHub
"Automated lossy JPEG optimization"
web  hpw  images  lossy  jpg 
6 weeks ago
Republicans: we don't need no regulation
"Taking this tack has allowed the renaissance right to do a very remarkable thing: to pretend to be an enemy of big business, on the grounds that big business is insufficiently capitalist."
politics  us  republicans  economics  regulation  capitalism  from instapaper
6 weeks ago
4sqwifi
I wish there was a good geographic database of wifi passwords. Oh, there is: http://t.co/3AjqUjHN
foursquare  wifi  from instapaper
6 weeks ago
What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success - Anu Partanen - National - The Atlantic
"While Americans love to talk about competition, Sahlberg points out that nothing makes Finns more uncomfortable. In his book Sahlberg quotes a line from Finnish writer named Samuli Puronen: "Real winners do not compete." It's hard to think of a more un-American idea, but when it comes to education, Finland's success shows that the Finnish attitude might have merits. There are no lists of best schools or teachers in Finland. The main driver of education policy is not competition between teachers and between schools, but cooperation."
education  finland  us  schools  from instapaper
6 weeks ago
Perfection kills » Profiling CSS for fun and profit. Optimization notes.
.@kangax did some amazingly thorough research on CSS performance, using @operadfl’s new CSS profiler: http://t.co/ctXLRb1z /via @chriscoyier
web  css  hpw  from instapaper
6 weeks ago
Foursquare: Today's best-executing startup
"I think we need more stories that celebrate the success of what seem like small, iterative product launches, but actually reflect triumphs in unsung disciplines such as systems operations, design process, business development and product management. There are lots of loud, pointless headlines about companies getting money from venture capitalists or angel investors. What I'd love to see more of in 2012 (and beyond!) is headlines about how a few small successes with users are a demonstration of a small company outperforming and out-innovating the biggest companies in the tech industry by being focused and disciplined in their execution."
foursquare  startup  design  from instapaper
6 weeks ago
Performance Calendar » Lossy Image Compression
Lossy is a scary word but when it comes to images it provides dramatic savings & minimal loss in quality via @sergeyche http://t.co/Idddi9Ac
web  hpw  images  compression  lossy  from instapaper
6 weeks ago
CSS media queries in JavaScript, Part 1 | NCZOnline
Great overview on detecting CSS media queries (changes) via JavaScript http://t.co/QsomEmdv #css3 #html5 #javascript
web  css  js  mediaqueries  responsive  from instapaper
6 weeks ago
Prints for Walls
Good London pictures (panoramas in particular) from Wish in Herne Hill.
london  hernehill  design  home  pictures  prints  panoramic 
6 weeks ago
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