Bookmarks for June 3, 2016
- ziadoz/awesome-php: A curated list of amazingly awesome PHP libraries, resources and shiny things.
This is exactly what it says, and will be useful to me.
Tag: webdev
Bookmarks for March 5, 2016
- On Being A Senior Engineer | Kitchen Soap
This is superb. On a good day, I think I manage about 75% of this, and usually strive to do better at most of it. Don't ask about bad days.
- Facebook Messenger used to track friends' sleeping habits by Danish coder
Once again, I find the kind of data apps leak out about users creepy, and once again, it's a Facebook app doing the leaking.
Bookmarks for June 14, 2014
- 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."
Bookmarks for March 3, 2014
- Only 90s Web Developers Remember This
And boy, do I remember some of these. The twitching has almost stopped…
- clutter – Opt out of Dropbox's arbitration clause – Opt out of Dropbox's arbitration clause
If you use Dropbox, I urge you to go here, read this, and then opt out of the new TOS clause. Dropbox is still a great service, and I hope it will never matter that I've done this, but the clause is a bad idea – I don't want my rights limited if something *should* go wrong – even if I never exercise them. All that said: I'm impressed they've made it easy to opt out of this clause.
Bookmarks for May 15, 2012
- Andrew Berls | Reducing bad signup emails with mailcheck.js
Handy for work, the rest of you can skip it.
- Prototyping without physics – Edge Magazine
This is a hugely important insight into modern (computer) game design, I feel.
Bookmarks for March 23, 2012
- A Newbie's Guide to Publishing: Presumed Inane
This si interesting food for thought – a couterpoint to the usual amazon-is-bad publishing-industry rhetoric. I don't know if I buy it (and I don't know if I don't) but it's certainly made me think about some of the things I've taken for granted as "facts" in the debate.
- On Improving iBooks – Connor Tomas O'Brien
This is two years old, and I am frustrated that most of the things that are being talked about here are not implemented. At the very least, it seems it ought to be possible to make iBooks-DRMed content available to other apps on the same device, via API. Apple/Publishers still get to make their sales money, while another app could do the work of tracking my reading habits.
- Large Bookbag – Henry Tomkins
I think I may have found the bag of my dreams. Satchel strap, double buckle, with front pocket. Knocking on the door of 200 quid, as opposed to my current 40 quid effort, but oh, isn't it beautiful? Time to start saving.
- Cool Tools: Where There Is No Doctor
This is either brilliant, or pure hypochondria fodder.
- Geeklist and a public apology
In the spirit of fairness: Geeklist have made a pretty unreserved public apology in the time since I bookmarked that first link. I'm still annoyed that they didn't get it right first time, but then, who among can say that they always do?
- Cow magnet – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I have absolutely no reason to blog this, except that I did not know these were a thing, and the words "Cow Magnet" make me laugh. I also wish that there was an accepted a alt.fan.warlord syntax for blogging as this comment would have been shorter if I thought more than three of you would understand IHNW IJLTS "Cow Magnets" without having to look anything up.
- OH HAI SEXISM · charlesarthur · Storify
Short version: woman calls geek men on their sexism. Geek men lash out in a grossly disproportionate and unprofessional manner. This is nothing new, except that these people are in the same industry as me, with a product that is targeted at, well, people exactly like me – well, it's saddening. And pathetic.
Bookmarks for October 24, 2011
- Tangle: a JavaScript library for reactive documents
This opens up all sorts of possibilities for page design…
Links for Friday August 19th 2011 through Monday August 22nd 2011
- rentzsch.tumblr.com: HOWTO Use UTF-8 Throughout Your Web Stack
If you are running the LAMP stack on your websites, and not doing all this, you need to do some work.
- Bootstrap, from Twitter
Here's a nice framework for building web-app interfaces. I can see myself using this to put stuff together.
- 13-Year-Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough by Harnessing the Fibonacci Sequence | Inhabitat – Green Design Will Save the World
I wish I'd been that clever when I was 13. Hell, I wish I was that clever now.
Bookmarks for August 18, 2011
- Scripting Languages: PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby – Hyperpolyglot
Likely of no interest to non-webdev-nerds, but potentially of enormous value to me, in terms of learning new languages. I sort of vaguely know Ruby, but this direct translation from PHP to Ruby would speed what little ruby hacking I do.
- It's Sexy A-Levels!
A blog exploring the hypothesis that UK newspapers believe that only attractive girls in low cut tops do A-Levels.
- fleet street fox: More pictures like this, please.
A counter-argument: it is excellent that at A-level results time, the papers fill up with photos of attractive young women. Less sexist that you think.
- Tetrapharmakos – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I stumbled across this set of 4 simple maxims for a happy life, and really like it.
- Up, up and away into near-space in a beautiful bloon
Statement of intent: I will do this before I die.
- Special ed student raped by classmate, forced by school to apologize to him, then raped again, lawsuit claims (UPDATED) – Boing Boing
I wanted to link to this not because it's directly relevant to me (other than, y'know, as a human being with an ounce of compassion somewhere under a rock in here), or even because it's an exceptionally horrible story (it is, but the plain truth is that worse things happen every day, and I don't link to news about them), but just because it strikes me as a very, very stark reminder of how, even in the "developed" world, we still have such a very very long way to go before we can call ourselves civilised.
Bookmarks for November 3, 2010
- Did somebody just try to buy the British government? – Charlie's Diary
I uh, don't quite know what to make of this. It sounds like conspiracy theory meets internet fraud scam on a national level. But if it's legit, and anyone from Foundation X is reading this and would like to fund me to the tune of say, 4 or 5 million quid with no strings attached, then I'm certainly willing to enter into discussions about how I would usefully use the money…
- The Do Lectures | Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee explains the context through which he came to computers, and makes the case that while people aren't ever going to come to thme that way again, there are still some vitally important things that we should be teaching our children about computers.
- Antony Johnston – Scrivening Comics
If you write, whether it's comics or not, I imagine that by the time you have read this article, you will understand why you need Scrivener in your life. It is hands down the best writing app I have ever encountered, and what's better is that it's surprisingly intuitive to use. Antony's article may have you thinking "god, that sounds like a lot of options, how confusing", but what I love about it is that they're not intrusive, and you can come to them as you need them. Try it just as a word processor, and you'll find that over time, you'll pick up more and more of it's features, just because they're there and easy to understand, until you wonder how you managed to write without it. Just the ability to hold my research notes in a meaningful structure alongside my actual writing, and view both at the same time is invaluable to me, never mind the bits of process tracking it enables me to do…
- The protocol-relative URL « Paul Irish
I didn't know that one could do this. It's pointless tech stuff to most of you, but I'll find it very useful.