- Microjs: Fantastic Micro-Frameworks and Micro-Libraries for Fun and Profit!
This would be very handy for mobile apps.
- Who Said It? Mitt Romney or Mr. Burns?
Just a little bit terrifying.
- Calvin and Hobbes desktop wallpapers.
I usually use my own photos as a desktop background (I wouldn't take them if they didn't make me happy) but I think I may have to use a few of these, instead.
- iPad Folio Cases by Fieldfolio
I have no idea why I might be contemplating a new iPad case. None.
Tag: javascript
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 Tuesday November 8th 2011 through Wednesday November 9th 2011
- A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
This is utterly brilliant. It very neatly skewers several big flaws in that Microsoft vision-of-the-future thing, and actually suggests several interesting possibilities for transformative technologies, if anyone can figure out how to do them. It also makes me think of a whole new spectrum of problems for people with certain disabilities that will need solving. If you give even a little shit about how you interact with the technology around you, this is a must read.
- Custom input types for edit in place
I think I'm about to fall down a JS hole. This, specific, JS hole. Lucky me.
Bookmarks for October 24, 2011
- Tangle: a JavaScript library for reactive documents
This opens up all sorts of possibilities for page design…
Bookmarks for September 8, 2011
- WebGL "Ginger" manipulation demo: Blend shapes, morph targets with Three.js / Stickman Ventures
This is all happening in real time in your browser. Remember when Toy Story took entire buildings full of servers and custom software and specially trained technical staff years to make?
Bookmarks for March 10, 2011
- The Back Story | Thanks for Trumpet Winsock
The reason I am a web developer now is that in 1995, I was able to use Trumpet Winsock to connect to the internet, and then run Mosaic to browse the then-very-nascent web. I have therefore donated a couple of quid to this campaign. If you used it like I did, then I strongly suggest you kick in a couple of quid, too.
- BBC News – New net rules set to make cookies crumble
So there's going to be a new law about what websites need to do around setting cookies, and getting the user's permission to do so, that will probably change how a low of UK and European websites have to work. But at the time the law comes into force, the government will not have spelled out what websites need to do to comply with that law. Someone phone Terry Gilliam and tell him that he's won?
- HOWTO: Native iPhone/iPad apps in JavaScript
How to make an web app look and feel like an iphone native app. This could be very useful at work.
Bookmarks for February 8, 2011
- Adactio: Journal—Erase and rewind
The BBC it seems, refuse to learn lessons from their own history. I'm usually one to defend the BBC against a lot of the flak it gets, but this is just plain stupid. Archiving these sites should be a matter of maybe an hour's work each, at most.
- Isotope
Tech bollocks. JS (specifically, jQuery, my new best friend) library for doing all sorts of very nice layout/sorting tricks. Bound to be handy.
- Woke Up, Got Out of Bed, Dragged a Comb Across My Head – morning routine food | Ask MetaFilter
I have been reflecting of late that I could do with adjusting my morning routine a bit. A lot of what's in here is moderately standard hippy crap, but the annoying thing is that I know quite a lot of it works, if one sticks to it. So I should probably get on that.
- To us, it's an obscure shift of tax law. To the City, it's the heist of the century
If you live in the UK, stop what you're doing and read this, assuming you haven't already. This is somewhere between absurd and terrifying, and I simply don't understand how anyone in Cameron's position can contemplate it. Well, I do, but the only way it makes sense to me is active malice and contempt for other people, which is a motivation I find hard to ascribe to any human being.
Bookmarks for September 29, 2010
- Incredibly Depressing Mega Millions Lottery Simulator!
Do you play the lottery? Here's a little tool that will simulate playing a reasonably normal lottery for you, twice a week, for 10 years, so that you can see just how much money you're flushing down the toilet for what kind of reward.
- How to build a web widget (using jQuery) – Alex Marandon
Most of you can safely skip this one, as it'll be incomprehensible tech bollocks. Unless you're interested in good coding practice when developing Javascript for other people to deploy of their websites. No, didn't think so.
- A user’s guide to websites, part 1: If it wasn’t broken why fix it? « Rev Dan Catt's Blog
Have you ever complained (or thought about complaining, or generally just grumbled to yourself and your friends) when LJ, Facebook, Twitter, or any other large website you use changed something? Have you ever wondered "why didn't they give us the option to keep doing it the old way, if we wanted to?" Well here's a good post explaining why.
- Wrestling legend Mick Foley explains how Tori Amos changed his life. – By Mick Foley – Slate Magazine
Yeah, I know it sounds unlikely to the point of absurdity. But seriously, read this. I don't care if you don't give a shit about one of both of them are – unless you have no idea at all who both of them are (in which case, I congratulate you on waking from your 20 year coma, and welcome you to the future) they I promise you, you'll love it. It's absolutely brilliant.
Bookmarks for June 15, 2010
- USB Typewriter by usbtypewriter on Etsy
Why no, there is no practical reason to get one of these. Why yes, I do really really want one.
- Frank Chimero: What is the future of print design?
Key quotes: "we break stuff before we know what replaces it, and we invent things before we know what they are for" and "If I’m thinking as a normal consumer, I don’t really care terribly much about what the future of ink on paper is going to be. I care about what the future of content is going to be."
- mir.aculo.us with Thomas Fuchs » Blog Archive » Making an iPad HTML5 App & making it really fast
Useful reference for the reasonably near future, I suspect.
Bookmarks for April 27, 2010
- jQuery Masonry · David DeSandro
Nice JS framework that makes some more interesting web layouts possible.
- Frameworks for citizen responsiveness, enhanced: Toward a read/write urbanism « Adam Greenfield’s Speedbird
Adam Greenfield has some notes on the future integration of technology and the city – city as development platform.
- Geocities-ised ala.sda.ir
A timewarp all the way back to 1997. It's the spot on music that really sells this one, I think.
- Stages of a Photographer
Well, I've never fallen in the HDR hole – I think it's a cheap effect, a way to get around weaknesses in technique, or a substitute for an actual idea – but on the other hand, I've taken so few photos I like in the last year, it's ridiculous. But that is less about my ability, and more about the fact that I haven't been carrying a camera enough, or taking enough pics. Time to do something about that.