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Links for Friday July 24th 2015

Posted on July 24, 2015 by Alasdair

Posted on July 15, 2015 by Alasdair

WordPress Optimization Bible | Prelovac.com
Contains some useful notes on hwo to optimise MySQL config for wordpress.

Posted on July 14, 2015 by Alasdair

FRANKFURTER BRETT // The kitchen workbench by Johannes Schreiter & Joseph Schreiter — Kickstarter
This looks beautiful and useful, and I would love to get one and the appropriate containers. One day…

Posted on July 13, 2015 by Alasdair

Posted on July 2, 2015 by Alasdair

Smart Toys and the Endangered Solitude of Childhood by Alana Massey | Model View Culture
I don't know whether I agree with this or not, but I think it's an interesting piece that provides food for thought.

Here’s a giant 800-track alt/indie-focused 90’s playlist in chronological order — Medium
Skews a bit differently to what I remember the nineties being, I assume because it's american-focused? But this is nonetheless pretty pleasing. Might be amusing to do a playlist for myself, one track from every year of music I own.
How to Auto Delete Old Emails In Any Gmail Label
Setting up a new Gmail-based system for work. This will (I hope) finally solve an email problem that has plagued me for 5 years now.

Posted on June 2, 2015 by Alasdair

Tingbot: A NORD collective project
Interesting. Will await a Kickstater with interest.
My website is 20 years old today. | Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report: Web Design News & Insights Since 1995
I built my first website about 20 years ago, too. Not this one – it's only 15 years old, but the pages I built when I was 18 are still out there in the web archive, horribly. Still, it's a sobering thought. 20 years of the internet.
nikjft/Omnigraffle-Sitemap-Generator
Omnigraffle-Sitemap-Generator – An AppleScript application that generates a visual sitemap in Omnigraffle from a sitemap.xml file. Useful!

Posted on May 29, 2015 by Alasdair