SOPA/PIPA opposition surges in Congress. Time to jump ship, Senator @AlFranken.
I really, really, really hope Dwolla can take a big bite out of PayPal's monopoly pie.
My dream office will have a height-adjustable desk.
Documentary on mash-up media and 'piracy' (recommended by @paulrouget).
"If you want to defend Samsung, don’t do it by arguing that they don’t copy Apple. Go with the 'good artists copy, great artists steal' argument."
Love this: "So Jony Ive leads the design team at the two most-profitable phone makers. Impressive."
Testimonials from users of Lumosity. Pretty impressive.
One of the better SOPA/PIPA FAQs I've seen. Read up!
A good list of places to learn stuff online.
Very interesting video experiments... and I better not say more than that!
Possibly the best implementation of micropayments yet (although that's not saying much). Will have to watch this one.
A substitute for Lorem Ipsum that pulls sample copy from a Twitter feed. Nice idea, though I'd like the ability to add custom filters.
@nathan_ford makes the case for moving away from block paragraphs to the indented variety.
Great post on what it means to be a craftperson as relates to front-end development.
"The Friedman, or Friedman Unit (F.U.), is a tongue-in-cheek neologism coined by blogger Atrios (Duncan Black)… A Friedman is a unit of time equal to six months in the future. […] More generally, the concept can refer to any event or 'critical period' which is repeatedly expected to happen in the near future, but repeatedly fails to occur."
Trying to decide between LESS (which I've been using along with LESS.app for Mac this year) and Sass (+ Compass), which is quickly becoming the standard for CSS scripting.
"Social Sharing buttons can be brutal on load time (Facebook I’m looking at you)… Loading Facebook, Twitter, Google’s +1 button, and other sharing buttons for a mobile site isn’t ideal. […] I think the following is a pretty elegant way to handle these buttons and scripts in a Mobile-First responsive design."
"Laravel is a clean and classy framework for PHP web development."
Adapts your display brightness to the time of day based on when the sun sets and rises in your location. Not sure if it works, but it's worth a try.
Kicking HTML5 Boilerplate up a notch for those that want more of a ready-made starting point to a new project.
Lossless image optimization tool (unfortunately has no API at this point).
A scalable hosting alternative for Perch sites (I'd like to test it with ExpressionEngine, too).
"GitX is a git GUI made for Mac OS X. It currently features a history viewer much like gitk and a commit GUI like git gui."
A quick way to import/export MySQL databases to/from MAMP.
A very helpful plugin for Path Finder (Mac Finder replacement) that adds the ability to create a keyboard shortcut to give the search/filter box focus. Something users have asked Cocoatech for since '06 but a user had to come up with (in '10).
Probably old news for most Git users on Macs, but… Git autocomplete in Mac OS X:
Some good tips on overcoming self-criticism.
See specific post by Alain P. regarding a fix for adding Dropbox context menu support to Path Finder.
Beautifully shot and edited. I love Vinh's humility here despite his accomplishments.
Jekyll is a simple, blog aware, static site generator. It takes a template directory (representing the raw form of a website), runs it through Textile or Markdown and Liquid converters, and spits out a complete, static website suitable for serving with Apache or your favorite web server.
Reviewed here: http://youtu.be/ETZEib6LdNE. Mentioned by @gruber: http://twitter.com/gruber/status/128999906466742272.
China, a country where altruism is viewed skeptically and even suspiciously. I wonder if we are heading in that direction.