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Human Era
A year-numbering system compatible with CE but using a datum 10,000 years earlier.
calendar  religion 
september 2011
How to camouflage yourself from facial recognition technology
Dazzle camouflage for faces. I’ve been thinking about this possibility for a while.
privacy  vision  camouflage 
september 2011
The longest journey starts with a single step
On the importance of a longer view in encouraging people into work.
work  employment  uk 
september 2011
'It's exploitation and it's repellent': Retailers, councils and charities benefiting from workfare
‘unemployed people are being sent to work without pay … to do similar work to that of salaried staff while receiving only £67.50 a week in Jobseekers' Allowance.’
uk  politics  employment  work 
september 2011
Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns
‘In Javaland, by King Java's royal decree, Verbs are owned by Nouns. But they're not mere pets; no, Verbs in Javaland perform all the chores and manual labor in the entire kingdom.’
programming  oop  java 
september 2011
One of the Best Bits of Programming Advice I ever Got
‘Don’t make objects that end with “er”.’
programming  oop 
september 2011
foldboat.info
A simple boat made from a single sheet of flexible plastic; they claim it can be folded and unfolded in minutes.
boat  design  transport 
september 2011
Zsh Workshop: Table of Contents
shell  unix  tutorial  zsh 
september 2011
The Best Science Fiction Books (According to Reddit)
books  scifi 
september 2011
Conference anti-harassment/Policy
‘This is an example anti-harassment policy suitable for most open source, computing, or technology-related conferences.’
conference  technology  equality  discrimination  feminism  policy 
september 2011
Rubygems Proxy
Rack app for caching RubyGems files. Useful for offices on bad internet connections.
ruby  rubygems  cache 
september 2011
Data Science Toolkit
api  geocoding  data 
september 2011
Destroy All Software Screencasts
‘Screencasts for serious developers’.
software  education  video  screencast 
september 2011
APOD: 2011 September 4 - In the Shadow of Saturn
photography  space  saturn 
september 2011
12 Seamless backgrounds based on pages from a Sears and Roebuck Catalog
Surprisingly beautiful.
art  design  webdev  graphics 
september 2011
BrowserLinux
‘BrowserLinux is a fast and small (93 Mb!) Linux distribution for surfing the web.’
linux  internet  browser  distribution 
september 2011
lsyncd - Live Syncing (Mirror) Daemon
backup  sync  linux  unix 
september 2011
Vim Cheat Sheat for Programmers
vim  unix  linux  reference 
september 2011
Learning Unix
Miguel de Icaza’s recommendations on books to improve Unix skills.
programming  unix  linux  reference  education 
september 2011
Small Memory Software
‘Patterns for systems with limited memory’. Free online version of book.
programming  software  reference  books  ebooks 
september 2011
We open-sourced 90 node.js modules at Browserling!
javascript  node.js  webdev 
september 2011
Compiling up to the λ-calculus: Church encodings and the Y combinator
A clever demonstration.
programming  compsci  compiler 
september 2011
Personal names around the world
Your assumptions are probably mistaken.
i18n  usability  webdev  society  culture 
august 2011
The Stoner Arms Dealers: How Two American Kids Became Big-Time Weapons Traders
forlater  weapons  arms  military 
august 2011
lessfs
‘A high performance inline data deduplicating filesystem for Linux.’
filesystem  compression  linux  backups 
august 2011
Password Policies are Getting Out of Control
‘In fact, I think I have found the most difficult password policy in existence today.’
security  webdev  usability 
august 2011
Fartlek
‘a form of interval training which puts stress on the whole aerobic energy system due to the continuous nature of the exercise.’
sport  exercise  health 
august 2011
NPR tries something new: A day to let managers step away and developers play
‘NPR is experimenting with something called “Serendipity Day,” wherein everyone on the technology side abandons their day jobs to work on…whatever they want.’
work  business  productivity  npr 
august 2011
Presenting the #blue api
‘The solution we've used is to build a presenter for each model, solely responsible for building the json.’
ruby  rails  json  api  webdev 
august 2011
Your Code is My Hell
‘Just please, do me a favor: before you tell me that Ruby and Rails doesn’t need any of this discipline, have a chat with the guy or gal who is still maintaining the first Rails app you worked on.’
ruby  rails  development 
august 2011
How to Improve the quality of your software: find an old computer
‘not only should you eat your own dogfood, you should eat it with the same cutlery the other dogs use’
programming  performance 
august 2011
Why Arabic is Terrific
‘This idea is so cool that you'd think it came from a constructed language, and yet Arabic has actual native speakers who live completely normal lives and will not try to talk to you about Runescape.’
linguistics  languages  arabic 
august 2011
Jane's roll top Brompton bag
Patterns to make a bag for the Brompton front luggage.
brompton  cycling  diy  sewing 
august 2011
London Tubemap - A new angle on the London Underground
london  maps 
august 2011
Introducing Vocatr
‘It's an extraordinary waste of talent, potential and smarts for people not to be doing something that matters to them, something that provides a sufficient level of satisfaction and/or enjoyment.’
vocatr  work  employment  career 
august 2011
EC2StartersGuide
Good general introduction to using EC2 command-line tools on Ubuntu.
amazon  aws  ec2  ubuntu  linux 
august 2011
Updated AWS tools PPA for Ubuntu
aws  ec2  amazon  ubuntu  commented 
august 2011
First Things First 1964 a manifesto
‘We, the undersigned, are graphic designers, photographers and students who have been brought up in a world in which the techniques and apparatus of advertising have persistently been presented to us as the most lucrative, effective and desirable means of using our talents.’
advertising  design  business  manifesto 
august 2011
Machine Learning - Stanford University
‘A bold experiment in distributed education, "Machine Learning" will be offered free and online to students worldwide during the fall of 2011.’
compsci  ai  education 
august 2011
Nyan Cat - Smooth Jazz Cover
video  humour  music 
august 2011
ISO 216, Recursion and Higher Order Functions
Using recur to implement recursive functions that don’t grow the call stack.
clojure  compsci  recursion 
august 2011
Using iptables to balance Node.js processes
linux  node.js  webdev  sysadmin  iptables 
august 2011
Gaijin Kanpai Eps
Podcast of Japanese music.
jpop  japan  music  japanese  podcast 
august 2011
NLTK Japanese Corpora – NLTKで使える日本語コーパス
Introduction to and explanations of how to use two freely available Japanese corpora for NLTK.
linguistics  japanese  nltk  corpus 
august 2011
When?
‘This is an exceptionally long blog post, divided into three sections. 1. When will the economic system collapse? 2. What can we do about the state of the world, including human rights? 3. What should I do?’
world  economy  humanity  food  civilisation 
august 2011
EFIKA MX Smarttop
Tiny, cheap, low-power ARM computer running Ubuntu. Has graphics acceleration & HDMI output
linux  ubuntu  arm  computer 
august 2011
TunesViewer
‘TunesViewer is a small, easy to use program to access itunes-university media and podcasts in Linux.’
itunes  linux  podcast  education 
august 2011
AeroQuad - The Open Source Quadcopter
arduino  diy  electronics  helicopter  hardware 
august 2011
Generation F*cked
‘The first stirrings of major intergenerational conflict are already being noted. The basic rights of the recent past – a safe job, free education and healthcare, secure homes to raise a family, a modest but comfortable old age – have slipped quietly away, all to be replaced by a myriad of vapid lifestyle choices and glittery consumer trinkets.’
society  uk 
august 2011
OSX GCC Installer
A C compiler for OS X without the overhead of the gigabytes of Xcode.
compiler  c  osx 
august 2011
The London Situation: Threat Modeling
‘Stock up the house in case there’s more of this, and wait it out. That’s my advice.’
london  civilisation  society 
august 2011
RetroBSD
‘RetroBSD is a port of 2.11BSD Unix intended for embedded systems with fixed memory mapping. The current target is Microchip PIC32 microcontroller with 128 kbytes of RAM and 512 kbytes of Flash.’
bsd  unix  microcontroller 
august 2011
Noir
‘Noir is a micro-framework that allows you to rapidly develop websites in Clojure.’
webdev  clojure  framework 
august 2011
Low End Box - Cheap VPS Hosting Providers Listing & Reviews
hosting  linux  server  vps 
august 2011
Chan Koonchung's dystopian vision of China in 2013
books  china 
august 2011
Ferret: An Experimental Clojure Compiler
Includes an interesting description of how it works.
compiler  clojure  c++ 
august 2011
A Way with Words, public radio's show about words and language and how we use them.
Might be interesting.
language  linguistics  radio  podcast 
august 2011
Guide to Programming in Clojure for Beginners
clojure  education  reference 
august 2011
Diary revealed notes about clandestine cult
Someone sneaked some outrageous double entendres past a local newspaper’s letters editor.
humour  uk 
july 2011
Chosen
‘Chosen is a javascript plug-in that makes long, unwieldy select boxes much more user-friendly.’
javascript  ui  webdev 
july 2011
h5ai
File index pages for Apache that actually look nice.
html  http  html5  css 
july 2011
Windows on the War
‘Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941–1945’.
ussr  russia  uk  propaganda  posters  ww2 
july 2011
Why CRUD might be what they want, but may not be what they need
‘We need to drop the focus on CRUD and move to a focus on tasks: what is it that the user wants to accomplish, and how can we help them accomplish that?’
ux  software  crud  interface 
july 2011
Edward Tufte’s “Slopegraphs”
design  dataviz  data  graphs  charts 
july 2011
Faraday: advanced HTTP requests made easy
Middleware for clients, similar to what Rack does for servers.
ruby  http  https  client  network 
july 2011
xmppjs
‘xmpp.js is a library for Node.js that allows you to connect to an XMPP server as a component.’
javascript  node.js  xmpp  chat 
july 2011
Prosody IM
XMPP server. Looks easy to set up.
xmpp  chat  jabber  server  lua 
july 2011
JavaScript language advanced tips and tricks
javascript  reference 
july 2011
A Reference Of Female-Fronted Punk Rock: 1977-89 (Part 1)
‘this is a homemade 12 x CD-R (!) compilation of punk bands fronted by female vocalists from 1977 to 1989.’
music  punk  women  mixtapes 
july 2011
TV DINNER
Mixtapes of women in punk.
punk  music  women  mixtapes 
july 2011
Jenny Woolworth’s Women in Punk Blog
music  punk  women 
july 2011
Gunilla Mixtapes
‘80's girlpunk music’
music  mixtapes  punk  women 
july 2011
Digital: A Love Story
‘A computer mystery/romance set five minutes into the future of 1988.’
bbs  retro  games 
july 2011
Playable Archaeology: An Interview with Telehack's Anonymous Creator
Telehack is ‘an interactive pastiche of 1980s computer history, tying together public archives of Usenet newsgroups, BBS textfiles, software archives, and historical computer networks into a multiplayer adventure game.’
emulation  bbs  usenet  games  history  internet 
july 2011
How to draw ... penguins
Very cute ones.
art  penguins  animals  howto 
july 2011
php.js
Never mind the PHP, this is actually an amazingly useful library of common functions (e.g. sprintf) implemented in JavaScript.
javascript  library  php 
july 2011
Dulwich
‘Dulwich is a pure-Python implementation of the Git file formats and protocols.’
git  python  vcs  dvcs 
july 2011
jQuery Growl with CSS3
javascript  css  notification  webdev 
june 2011
NoisePNG - Generate noisy PNG-images with alpha-transparency
design  graphics  webdev 
june 2011
GHDB
The Google Hacking Database: stuff you can find through Google searches that people probably didn't intend to make public.
google  security  search 
june 2011
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