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Unix as IDE
ide  programming  unix  cli 
6 days ago
What is Copyright For?
‘But […] there’s another way to think about copyright: as a regulation of commercial exploitation, rather than a regulation of copying per se.’
copyright  business  law 
6 days ago
Frozen Seared Steak
recipes  steak 
7 days ago
Web Intents
Seems to be conceptually similar to Android’s intents: an application registers itself to handle a particular action, avoiding the O(m.n) development effort of hooking everything up to everything else.
webdev  api 
9 days ago
Exo Font Family
Free and open geometric sans serif font family with 9 weights.
fonts  typography  free 
13 days ago
A re-introduction to JavaScript
javascript  programming  reference 
13 days ago
Uses of git
Distributed databases, wikis, etc.
git 
13 days ago
#shitsiskosays
‘[Deep Space 9] cares about physical presence in a way we are already beginning to leave behind.’ On how the future seems very old-fashioned.
scifi  culture  futurism 
14 days ago
Service Oriented Agony
Don’t partition into services unless you absolutely need to; partition according to business services if you do.
programming  software 
20 days ago
Why I don't ride a bike in London
london  cycling 
20 days ago
Made Better in Japan
‘As a result of this quest, Japan has become the most culturally cosmopolitan country on Earth’. Namechecks Amerikamura in Osaka, one of my favourite places on the planet.
japan  culture  osaka 
21 days ago
Spacedog
‘Haunted by defunct machines, faded variety acts and the darkest English folk tales, Spacedog are known for their eerie music, performed on vocals, theremin, saw and percussion, and for their ensemble of “uncanny” robots which accompanies them live on stage.’
music  theremin 
22 days ago
asaofficial's sounds on SoundCloud
Nigerian musician, sings in English, Yoruba and French.
music  nigeria  africa 
22 days ago
Virtual Private Servers - the Wild West of Hosting
Roundup of what’s cheap and good right now.
hosting  vps 
22 days ago
httppocketbook
Because I can never remember which 3xx is which.
reference  http  webdev 
22 days ago
C3PB e.V. - Sections
Nabaztag hacking.
nabaztag 
23 days ago
ruby-1.9.3-p0 cumulative performance patch
‘Patched ruby 1.9.3-p0 for 30% faster rails boot’.
ruby  rails  patch 
24 days ago
PZP-1 Piezo Pickup Buffer
JFET piezo preamp. Includes schematics.
electronics  music  guitar  piezo  bass 
24 days ago
Rolodecks
‘Rolodecks is a new way to discover artists and their music. The current primary focus of Rolodecks is the African continent’.
music  africa 
25 days ago
The Truth About Sleep & Productivity
‘Working overtime doesn't increase your output. It makes you stupid.’
biology  productivity  work  overtime 
25 days ago
The Twelve-Factor App
‘Our motivation is to raise awareness of some systemic problems we’ve seen in modern application development, to provide a shared vocabulary for discussing those problems, and to offer a set of broad conceptual solutions to those problems with accompanying terminology.’
software  webdev  programming 
26 days ago
Cycling between the traffic: mobility, identity and space, Justin Spinne
cycling  cities  london 
26 days ago
The New French Hacker-Artist Underground
‘There is no law in France, it turns out, against the improvement of clocks.’
france  paris  cities  culture  subterranean 
26 days ago
Cinnamon
Alternative Linux UI from Linux Mint.
linux  xorg  x11  ui 
27 days ago
Google’s Python Class
‘this is a free class for people with a little bit of programming experience who want to learn Python.’
google  programming  python  education 
28 days ago
Pixel Comic Sans
‘quite possibly the greatest font ever developed.’
fonts 
4 weeks ago
Automatically populating .ssh/known_hosts
ssh  sysadmin 
5 weeks ago
Manuscript/Staff/Music paper
A4 PDFs for printing out.
music  manuscript  printing 
6 weeks ago
XSLT as Pretty Printer
Works pretty well.
xml  xslt 
7 weeks ago
12 resolutions for programmers
programming 
7 weeks ago
Bass Guitar Strings - Overwater Basses
Bass strings. Good pricing, especially on 6 string sets.
bass  strings  music 
7 weeks ago
Legacy 4-String Nickel Bass Strings (40-100/45-105) from Strings Direct
Cheap bass strings, apparently manufactured by Rotosound.
bass  strings  music 
7 weeks ago
Stack Overflow ebooks
‘These books contain the top questions from a selection of the top tags on Stack Overflow.’
books  ebooks  programming 
8 weeks ago
What should I know as a foreigner in your country?
Hilarious bad advice for the visitor to Ireland.
humour  ireland 
10 weeks ago
Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development
psychology  law  obedience 
10 weeks ago
A Case Against Using CoffeeScript
The example marked as ‘really weird’ is more or less what convinced me to give up on CoffeeScript.
coffeescript  javascript  programming 
10 weeks ago
EB Garamond
Open source and free.
fonts 
10 weeks ago
split-notes microtonal netlabel
‘Welcome to split-notes, the netlabel exclusively for free and legal downloads of microtonal music.’
microtonal  music  mp3  free 
10 weeks ago
HOWTO: NFS Server/Client
Simple instructions that work.
linux  nfs  ubuntu 
11 weeks ago
Brakeman
‘Static analysis security scanner for Ruby on Rails’.
ruby  rails  security  xss  webdev 
12 weeks ago
The Economic Collapse
‘Are You Prepared For The Coming Economic Collapse And The Next Great Depression?’
economics  economy  finance  doom 
november 2011
The Pride Grid
A more colourful version of the Govias Grid.
webdev  html  css  design 
november 2011
Activate the Govias Grid
webdev  html  css  design 
november 2011
Press Play and Record
Recordings of free cassette tapes from the NME.
music  history  nme  mp3 
november 2011
DRAFT - A Design Compass: East Oriented …
programming 
november 2011
High Altitude Flatus Expulsion (HAFE)
‘[…] leads us to postulate a mechanism whereby the victim is afflicted by the expansion of colonic gas at the decreased atmospheric pressure of high altitude.’ I’ve always wondered about whether this happens in aeroplanes.
medicine  biology  altitude 
november 2011
Comparison of Tiling Window Managers
linux  x11  xorg 
november 2011
Making the Bow roundabout safer for pedestrians
‘So unfriendly that to make a safe circumnavigation of the roundabout on foot would take over an hour.’
london  tfl  roads  transport 
november 2011
オールカラー 名文・名句でおぼえる小学校の漢字1006字
Intended for schoolchildren. Recommended by Jake Adelstein: ‘Agreat book for learning Kanji and Japanese culture. It teaches by using proverbs, famous quotes.’
japanese  language  education 
november 2011
Potentiometers (Beginners' Guide to Pots)
Circuits for faking logarithmic response, implementing balance, etc.
audio  electronics 
november 2011
Billions Lost by Olympus May Be Tied to Criminals
‘Japanese officials say that at least $4.9 billion is unaccounted for in a financial scandal at Olympus and are investigating whether much of that money went to companies with links to organized crime.’
japan  olympus  business  corruption  yakuza 
november 2011
Natural Language Processing
‘We are offering this course on Natural Language Processing free and online to students worldwide, January - March 2012, continuing Stanford's exciting forays into large scale online instruction.’
education  nlp  linguistics  compsci 
november 2011
Z-Type
Space Invaders-style typing game. Fun, but the font is a little hard to read.
games  typing 
november 2011
London's ghost cycle super highway lanes will kill. All because TfL doesn't want cars to slow down.
‘EDIT UPDATE IN NOVEMBER - It is exactly this sort of “ghost bike lane” design that has now killed two people at Bow roundabout. And Transport for London is proposing dozens more junctions should be designed exactly like this.’
london  transport  cycling  safety  tfl 
november 2011
How the BBC’s HD DRM plot was kept secret … and why
‘Corporation’s Ofcom submission reveals it is willing to give privileges to US TV companies they can’t get at home’
uk  bbc  drm  television 
november 2011
Trouble Mounts at Olympus
japan  yakuza  corruption  olympus 
november 2011
Analysis - Japan tries, again, to cut corporate ties to yakuza
japan  yakuza  corruption  olympus 
november 2011
The Driver Privilege Checklist
Truth.
transport  cycling  cars 
november 2011
sqlkorma
Embedded SQL DSL for Clojure.
clojure  sql 
november 2011
eclim (eclipse + vim)
Use Eclipse’s Java functionality from within Vim.
java  editor  vim  eclipse 
november 2011
Trimage (lossless) image compressor
‘A cross-platform tool for losslessly optimizing PNG and JPG files.’
compression  images  linux 
november 2011
Classics in the History of Psychology -- Skinner (1948)
‘SUPERSTITION’ IN THE PIGEON
psychology  research  superstition 
november 2011
vim’s lcd command
vim  editor 
november 2011
Ixnay on the iPod: In Praise of Crap Technology
‘I’ve stepped off the escalators of feature creep and planned obsolescence, and all the expense and toxic e-waste that come with them. Crap technology, it turns out, is green technology.’
environment  technology  waste 
november 2011
U.S. Government Glossed Over Cancer Concerns As It Rolled Out Airport X-Ray Scanners
airport  security  transport  cancer  radiation  scanner 
november 2011
English Social Customs
Really interesting stuff, from a junior school!
uk  society  culture 
october 2011
Rendering Synthetic Objects into Legacy Photographs
graphics  compsci  photography 
october 2011
OpenClassroom
Free online video-based courses from Stanford.
education  compsci 
october 2011
xcursorclamp
‘clamps the cursor to visible regions (CRTCs) of the virtual screen.’
linux  x11  xorg  mouse  cursor 
october 2011
Optimizing TCP slow start
Speed up transfers on Linux by tweaking the initial receiver and congestion window sizes (without a kernel patch).
linux  network  webdev 
october 2011
Taking the Training Wheels Off the Arduino
A Rake + avr-gcc + avrdude scaffold to compile for Arduino without the IDE.
arduino  avr  compiler 
october 2011
Microcaching: Speed your app up 250x with no new code
Using Nginx.
webdev  sysadmin  optimisation  http  nginx  caching 
october 2011
lsof
How to find all kinds of information with lsof.
unix  linux  network 
october 2011
The Real UK Citizenship Test
A damn sight better than the nonsense they put in the official one.
humour  uk  immigration  culture 
october 2011
LCC Proposes Pedestrian And Cyclist Friendly Blackfriars
Seems good, but there's small chance of TfL doing something positive for humans.
london  cycling  tfl  safety  transport 
october 2011
Fedora 15: a NFSv4 to glusterfs migration HOW-TO
nfs  glusterfs  howto 
october 2011
Unnecessary Journalism Phrases
journalism  language  english 
october 2011
In praise of slow computing
‘For many of us, the computer we work with during the day is the same one we relax with in the evening. We end up not being able to concentrate as well as we could when we’re working and not really being able to switch off when the work’s over.’
computing  psychology  stress  work 
october 2011
WebAppSec/Secure Coding Guidelines
webdev  security 
october 2011
Adaptive Images in HTML
Drop-in PHP script to serve appropriately-sized images to mobile clients etc.
webdev  php  images  mobile 
september 2011
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