May 2012
THE BURIED LIFE: 20 Things I Should Have Known at... →
theburiedlife:
1. The world is trying to keep you stupid. From bank fees to interest rates to miracle diets, people who are not educated are easier to get money from and easier to lead. Educate yourself as much as possible for wealth, independence, and happiness.
2. Do not have faith in institutions to…
earthquake: Twitter terminal client with streaming... →
thechangelog:
As at least one observant Twitter user has noticed, I’m testing out a new Twitter client. Earthquake, from jugyo (十行), is a Command Line Interface Twitter client similar to Console Tweet but with support for Twitter’s Streaming API.
Installation and usage
To get started, install Earthquake via RubyGems:
gem install earthquake
The gem installs a command line application,...
April 2012
Tom Morris: Trawling the archives with the ghost... →
tommorrisdotorg:
I’ve just been chatting to someone about the sad departing of Ceefax and Teletext, and the various memories we have of these centralized, TV-based Internet forerunners. I had a look at the Wikipedia article on Ceefax, and it’s got sourcing problems. Having recently been given access to …
UK Government Digital Service: Design Principles →
decodering:
Listed below are our design principles and examples of how we’ve used them so far. These build on, and add to, our original 7 digital principles.
Start with needs*
Do less
Design with data
Do the hard work to make it simple
Iterate. Then iterate again.
Build for inclusion
Understand context
Build digital services, not websites
Be consistent, not uniform
Make things open:...
“As an experiment, the Guardian attempted to shoot video footage of the O2 arena...”
– O2 Olympic venue in row over security against legal photography | Sport | The Guardian (via iamdanw)
March 2012
nice cover by my lovely friend Mel!
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February 2012
Path uploads your entire iPhone address book →
nikf:
Poor form on Path’s side. Some immediate thoughts:
Given there’s no warning in iOS you’ve got to wonder who else does this.
File those Radars if you think there should be a warning (on iOS and Mac). Judging from Ywitter this is something logged as far back as 2007 on the Mac side.
Even if there’s no warning from iOS, I’d love to know why Path didn’t disclose this: I use the app...
[secondary artif@cts]: Fare thee well #AndyPiper →
secondaryartifacts:
Andy,
I am very sad to see you go! Being your friend and colleague over the last few years has been fantastic. I’m happy to have known you here in Big Blue and I’ve learned much from you over the years of blogging, social and presentations. I credit you with making IBM truly a more social…
Gentlemint - a mint of manly things →
secondaryartifacts:
finally, an internet pinboard for manly men.
CSS3 Test - How does your browser score for its... →
thechangelog:
If you’d like to know how your browser scores for its CSS3 support, you have to check out Lea Verou’s CSS3 Test. She announced the project yesterday on her blog.
Here’s screenshot of my browser, Google Chrome 16.0.912.77.
Lea actually planned this as an improvement to her interactive CSS playground called Dabblet (Source on GitHub), but it didn’t work out the way she planned,...
n00shie's blog: How I improved my life with a PS3... →
anushervon:
Picture this: after hours of web browsing, your body is contorted in various unnatural positions over time, your legs up on the table or you’re lying on the bed sideways with the laptop rotated sideways as well. Does that sound familiar?
For me it does.
Of course, I am not proud of my posture…
January 2012
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A story of online banking #fail
Last week, I needed to check the opening time of a local bank branch, so I went to the “Branch Finder” section of their website, entered a postcode, and hit Search.
That wasn’t good - not only did I not get a map, but I didn’t get any text results either.
I raised a complaint with the bank, via their contact form, and pasted the text of the Google Maps error.
They...
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præclarum: A Two-year-old Bug Found by Microsoft →
praeclarum:
I submitted the Windows Phone 7 version of iCircuit to Microsoft a few days ago and was shocked (shocked!) that it failed certification by their testers.
I was in denial, how could this be? The engine is two years old, and, while it has issues, is very stable on a variety of platforms. Add to…
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A Nerd of Advice - Episode 1 - Small Talk
anerdofadvice:
Episode One is up! Download it here and enjoy!
one of the Kickstarter projects i backed last year.
“It’s very human to want to learn, and to want to explore, and to want to...”
– Jen Simmons, The Web Ahead episode 11
princesspolly:
I love how when you agree to attend an event on Facebook and then if you and look at the page with all your events on, the ones you’ve said yes to have ‘You’re going.’ next to them. It makes me think of a conversation with Facebook that would go something like this:
Me: Oh I might not go, I’m quite tir- Facebook: You’re going. Me: Hmm. I dun- Facebook: You’re going. Me: Bu-...
“@stoweboyd: ‘Social networks are intricate things of beauty.’ 1st line in...”
– January 12, 2012 at 05:42AM via http://bit.ly/w64Ga0 (via stoweboyd)
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dalts.net: Podcasting at Conferences →
dalts:
For podcast hosts out there that attend conferences, especially those that only do Face-to-Face interviews like us, I’d so recommend making the most of these moments.
You get to speak to people you wouldn’t normally come in contact with, plus you get to ride on the coat-tails of the buzz that the…
vim-pasta - smarter, context aware indented... →
thechangelog:
Marcin Kulik has released vim-pasta, a plugin for Vim that looks at the destination context to determine the indentation level for pasted text. Consider a paste with the cursor on line 1 of the following code block:
if i_were_president
<paste would land here>
<when you really wanted it here>
...
end
Vim-pasta drops the text at the correct indentation level, in...