Digitalia – Page 20 – Alasdair Watson

Links for Monday March 30th 2015

Editorial guidelines from Spicy Detective magazine, 1935 – Boing Boing
Partly so we may all gaze in awe upon these guidelines, partly because who wouldn't love a magazine called "Spicy Detective"? Someone should bring it back. I'd read it.

Integrating Bootstrap Admin Template with Laravel 5 | Codelution
The repository I linked to the other week didn't work for me for some reason – the main templates fell out without half the CSS and javascript. This handy guide saved me from having to actually dig in to the template to properly work out what went where.

LaraminLTE – Laravel with adminLTE template
Get Laravel to drop out of the box with a decent admin system theme. Handy!

motion and rest · Nick Sweeney
This made me think, and is worth looking it. I'm not actually sure how to summaries it without simply obviating the need to read it in full, so really, just go look if you're interested in the internet and mobile devices and IoT type stuff.

Styleguide for tube line display on the web
Took me 20 mins to google this up, need it for work, don't want to have to do that again.

Posted on March 6, 2015 by Alasdair

Most common git screwups/questions and solutions – 41J Blog
I know most of these in an abstract way. And yet, every time I need several of them, I find myself scratching my head, thinking "how do I do that again?". So I will want this for future reference.

Sixteen Years | MetaTalk
Matt Haughey is retiring from Metafilter. I've never been part of the site's community, but I have always loved it, enjoyed reading the wonderful things that came out of it, and appreciated the work he has done in building the site, the community and the team that will now run it. I wish him every success in his future endeavours.
Amuse Your Bouche – Simple vegetarian recipes
I want to eat a bit more healthily, and a fast way to do that would be more vegetarian cooking. There's several things on here I really want to try.

Posted on March 2, 2015 by Alasdair

Big List of Apocalypse World Hacks – Spreadsheet – Google Sheets
Just what it says on the URL. Of particular delight to me is Moomin World, which looks to be a pretty well judged engine for running games based on a wide range of children's fiction.