Links for Thursday July 17th 2014

10 Evil Crimes Of The British Empire – Listverse
Just, you know, in case anyone was wondering why I'm not a fan of our current administration: they appear to take as read that the times in which Britain did this were some kind of halcyon age. Also noted for future reference purposes.
Papa Parse – Powerful CSV parser for Javascript
I suspect this will be very useful for a number of things.

Links for Friday July 11th 2014

Met Police encourages Twitter pile-ons (with images, tweets) · anyabike · Storify
Mildy horrifying behaviour from the police. I mean, sure, it's "just" twitter, but then, so were the complaints. Why set a pile-on on people who are "just" complaining on Twitter, if it's not important?

Five Computer Security Myths, Debunked by Experts
A collection of myths about security (as in, how people justify not being secure enough to themselves). Just in case anyone reading this is someone who might believe any of these.
danah boyd | apophenia » The Cost of Contemporary Policing: A Review of Alice Goffman’s ‘On the Run’
Bookmarking this as a reminder to pick this book up.

Maximum Happy Imagination | Magical Nihilism
This has sort of crystallised something for me. From where we currently stand, we can just about see a "maximum happy imagination" future ahead of us – not a challenge free future, not by any means, but one where basic material needs can be catered for, for everyone, for free – and yet it seems we keep electing people who are ideologically set against taking the steps that would be required to achieve this. It's almost like pre-emptive future shock.

Install MySQL on OS X 10.9 Mavericks. | Mac Mini Vault
Nice set of shortcuts to accomplish a reasonably common development task.

Badger Map print
A print of a badger, on a map. This may actually be the best thing in the entire universe, ever.
Dorothy – Shop
A collection of really nice street map prints. Bookmarking this so I can buy a couple later on.

Russell Davies: Consumers, users, people, mammals
On the importance of being precise about your relationships with the human beings who make up your user/consumer/customer/other base.

There’s no konami code for operations – blog dot lusis
I think I may just fire this at my boss, then next time he asks why a given bit of work is going to take the time it does. Because this is at once the most technobabble filled bit of writing I've read in a while, and yet serves as a reasonable summary of how complex development has gotten over the last decade or so. "Can you understand this blogpost? No? Then you're not qualified to understand the time estimates you're asking for."

All Our Patent Are Belong To You | Blog | Tesla Motors
Tesla have open-sourced their patents, in a bid to get the car industry to play catch-up. Their language is a bit fuzzy, but assuming they're for real, this is brilliant news.
The Qwerkywriter – Typewriter Inspired Mechanical Keyboard by Qwerkytoys, INC — Kickstarter
If you loved me, you would buy me one of these.

pickadate.js
Starting to use this at work, as an alternative to the stuff that requires jQuery UI (as too heavy), just want to have a permanent reference to find the docs. Move along nothing to see here.