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“For years Buckley’s Cough Mixture, available in Canada since 1919, has been highlighting the fact their cough syrup tastes horrible, but it works.” Love some of the taglines; a smart bit of marketing for the kind of products you hate but need…
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“Advancing the lever after each exposure makes that exposure seem more distinct and more deliberate.” I too thought this weird when I played with Lars’ example. but you only have to use it once to understand why it’s there.
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“Camelot received dozens of complaints on the first day from players who could not understand how, for example, -5 is higher than -6.” You’d have thought Camelot user-test their scratchcards. Clearly not!
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“If there’s a single piece of functionality that you feel you can’t provide in raw HTML, you’re doing it wrong.” Yes. Steve is, by and large, right about all of this. This is why front-end development is worthy of being a role in its own right.
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“Though most people understand that your environment files are the key to answering some of these problems, how to actually solve them is not well known. I’ll attempt to clarify what to use and when to use it.”
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A series of articles on source control best practice.
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“Software is everything. It also sucks.” Fascinating article on remedying that idea, about the team that writes software for the Space Shuttle. It’s practically the polar opposite of web development. Some bits of that are probably good; some are perhaps n
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“Beat connects you very directly to a single soldier by thumping their recorded heartbeat against your chest… If we are going to continue to fight wars, we need better methods of feedback like this one so the costs are more visceral and real for us.”
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“Regular people on the web *love* Snap previews. I know you don’t believe it — I didn’t want to believe it… I know we all feel these people are idiots, but it’s our own geek cultural imperialism that makes us think we know better than non-techy folks.”
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Tumblr gets a massive overhaul, becomes Davidville’s only product (and a company, too), and re-ignites my interest. Simple tools, made well. Strangely, it excites me in a way Pownce failed to (despite being a good, solid product).
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“a blog for game designers”. Some great content on here.
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“Ruby, Rails & Other Experimentations by Matt Aimonetti” Interesting looking rails-focused blog.
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“…supporting the retelling of experiences is important. After all if you’re offering a cool product or service, you want others to know about it. A passionate user is probably your best advocate.” More great stuff from Kars.
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“Test subjects consistently report that keyboarding is faster than mousing. The stopwatch consistently proves mousing is faster than keyboarding.” Great Tog article on keyboard vs mouse interfaces.
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Bizarre. Physical avatars for absent friends.
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“I see both advocates and detractors often use Richard’s paper in ways that conflicts with my own experience. Here are some of the ways I would suggest reconsidering how you use this important paper.” Need to reread the Bartle, wrt social software…
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“I cannot, in all conscience, remain within a union I now regard, albeit reluctantly, as reactionary. The digital revolution is here and I am digital revolutionary.” Roy Greenslade on leaving the NUJ.
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“The Relationship Update Stream is an endless feed of social relationship data, designed for web services to be able to send and receive information when changes to social relationships on their service occur.” Neat URL, too.
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A few handy GeekTool snippets I keep forgetting…
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“Sketching is not only practical but essential. It is the quickest, most accessible way to find out if a space, a vista, a progression can work and also to communicate it to others.”
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“Why did we look up for blessing – instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon.” Ursula Le Guin’s 1983 commencement address at Mills College.
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“Making backup software that people can’t wait to try, and which, once activated, just automatically kicks in and does its thing on a regular schedule, is like making people want to go ahead and sign up for life insurance.”
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“The big labels want music to equal money, but as much as anything else, music is memory, as priceless and worthless as memory…” A thoughtful post by DJ Rupture about the death of Oink from an artist’s perspective
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[this is good]. In fact, this is _very_ good and pretty much essential reading. I need to re-read; there were lots of lovely quotations that I wanted to jot down.
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“These are books that we like or that have influenced us. We hope you’ll find our remarks useful.” Very comprehensive – probably too much so – but some interesting titles I wasn’t aware of amid the sea of more obvious choices.
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A nice, quite easy-on-the-eye theme for TextMate. Works equally well with Ruby, HTML, PHP (from what I’ve tested) and separates markup and templating languages visually pretty well.
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“In a nutshell, this JavaScript adjusts the line-height of a container (such as a div) in proportion to it’s width, relative to the font size.” Nicely implemented typographic jQuery plugin