- Lychee — Self-hosted photo-management
Might want to have a play with this, see if I can get it to join up with other tools, so I've actually got my own database of my photos.
- London to the letter: meet Edward Johnston, the font of all tube style
Good article, more importantly: that's an exhibition I really want to see.
- A 3-Hour Long Mixtape of Goth History
Exactly what it says on the tin, but an interesting, deep-cuts type offering.
Tag: hosting
Bookmarks for November 11, 2011
- Node.js on Dreamhost | respectTheCode
Handy tutorial for getting node.js running on one of my webhosts.
- A Simple Blog with CouchDB, Bogart, and Node.js – How To Node – NodeJS
This is a bundle of technologies that I've been meaning to put a little time into learning for a while now. So I should sit down and implement this somewhere, when I get a little time.
- [this is aaronland] the unbearable finality of pixel space
If this matures a little, I'll be a happy man. Right now, it's a complete pain to get working out of the box, unless you're starting from a position of installing everything from scratch on an Ubuntu box, but if someone turns out a quick version that'll run on a basic PHP/MYSQL/Apache install on my webhost, I'll be a happy man. (Yes, I could spend a day or two making it run myself, but my photos are already well backed-up, ta, so my incentive to do it is limited. I quite want an easy minimalist portfolio site, but not enough to spend days building it.)
- A List of Things That Plugins Don’t Work With
Look seriously, if you're building a website, and thinking "Hey, I know, we'll do this bit with a plugin" – and it doesn't matter which one – Flash, Sliverlight, fuck, even Quicktime – then really stop, and think again. They're broken, and they don't do anything you can't do with modern web-standards based technology.
Links for Wednesday June 22nd 2011 through Monday June 27th 2011
- Hoban Cards – Letterpress Printed Calling Cards
Oooh, tempting! Very lovely letterpress business cards.
- Contact Us – Conversion University Help
I need to understand google analytics much better. Please kill me.
- F.B.I. Seizes Web Servers, Knocking Sites Offline – NYTimes.com
Seriously, at some point, someone needs to start running training seminars for law enforcement agencies, explain what technology actually *is*. I have no doubt that they employ many people who know, but it's be useful if the people doing the physical work weren't half bright morons hopped on fake authority. Because while knocking a few sites off the intertubes isn't the end of the world, it still is neither right nor fair that innocent third parties like pinboard.in, or Instapaper should be knocked off the internet, and their paying customers deprived of their service (and therefore their money) by government incompetence just because they happen to be in the same room as a computer someone might have used once to do something wrong. This sort of thing makes me disproportionately angry, not for what it is, but for the principle it represents: that the government can screw people for no reason, any time it likes, and receive no comebacks, not even be required to make an apology. Power and stupidity and no accountability. How do we stop this, exactly?
- Adramelech Books
Here is where you can order C.J. Lines new short short collection, Cold Mirrors. You should do this, pretty much right now. I routinely describe his previous novel as one of the most gleefully horrible things I've ever read, and if you like horror, and haven't read it, you've missed a treat. This short story collection promises to be superb, so seriously, make with the clicky and the shopping.
- WordPress › Passwords Reset
The WordPress main repository got hack the other day, and several popular plugins were modified to carry malicious code. Long strong short: if you are running a WordPress blog, and have updated your plugins in the last few days, then you should probably check to see if there are new updates available. Most plugins are unaffected, but a few of those that are are very common. The new updates will fix the problem.
Bookmarks for March 16, 2009
- Multicolr Search Lab – Idée Inc.
Very pretty means of searching Flickr.
- Tim Berners-Lee on the next Web | Video on TED.com
Sit down, shut up, and listen to the greatest living Englishman.
- Innovation Forum: Conferences Redux (The Sense Loft, 4th Floor, 68/70 Wardour Street, London W1F 0TB)
I think I may have to get along to this.
- Heroku
A little slice of the future that will be incomprehensible/irrelevant to most of you. It's an app hosting environment for RoR developers that pushes the apps out into a computing cloud rather than relying on single/multiple servers. If there was a PHP version, that was as easy to set up, I'd be signing up right now.
- Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky
Yes, it's true. Newspapers are fucked. Hardly radical thinking, but a very cogent summary of exactly why they're fucked, and what we might, maybe, get instead. But here's the key bit: "When someone demands to be told how we can replace newspapers, they are really demanding to be told that we are not living through a revolution." You could replace "newspapers" with "the music business", "the TV industry" or even just plain old "copyright" and still be on the money.