December 2007
23 posts
I Fight Cancer with Twitter →
This might help explain Twitter to those who still don’t “get” it.
Is Twitter Down? →
Yes
Copper Rainchain with Fluted Cup
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Too bad I don’t have gutters.
Underground Pro →
How did I miss this new release from P22 last month? Friends don’t let friends use Gill Sans.
'Mind Doping' Becoming More Common →
Turning a sphere inside out →
Medical myths →
Refuse to be Terrorized →
Chicago is asking that people report to the authorities anybody with camera, or a map, or taking notes. Sigh.
“Addressable is a replacement for the URI implementation that is part of...”
– Addressable
“The more easily you can talk about a user interface, the more easily you can...”
– Cognitive accessibility of user interfaces summarised in an oversimplified rule
“Design is a suite of web-design and development assistive tools which can be...”
– Design
Code's Worst Enemy →
I sure love me a good Stevey rant. Shun the non-believers. Shunnn. Shunnnnnnnna.
Frameworks Exist for Conceptual Integrity →
Worth reading, especially for all those who wish that Rails helped them replace ActiveFoo with AlternativeBar.
“nginx can be set up to directly serve a URL from memcache if the corresponding...”
– NginxMemcachedModule
Message From the Web →
Good stuff.
Killing Some Bad Layout Conventions →
+1 on Andy’s take on 3-columns, -1 on his examples for news sites (you can’t conveniently forget nytimes.com just because it doesn’t fit your model…)
Do websites need to look exactly the same in every... →
“Brandt — I hear that you switched to OSX — I’m pretty sure...”
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One Geometry →
Stephen Sawin, One Geometry: Perelman’s proof of the Poincaré conjecture, to the tune of Snoop Dogg and Pharrell William’s “Drop it Like it’s Hot”
“Augment is a system for gathering metadata from code and displaying it. This...”
– Augment
“You have a piece of functionality that you need to add to your system. You see...”
– Technical Debt
10 Reasons Why Johnny Cash Owns Chuck Norris →
