BRUTAL LONDON
On the heels of Paperholm comes BRUTAL LONDON by Zupa Grafika.
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Designing Twitter Video
My boy Stammy wrote a really nice, in-depth blog post on how he and his team at Twitter designed the new Twitter Video feature. Absolutely a must-read: It irks me when designers…
Wednesday Scrapple 3
The last two scrapples were on Tuesday; you can find them here and here. I’m finally getting the hang of Evernote. The key, for me at least, is managing multiple notebooks. It’d…
More about Paperholm
Om Malik did a short email interview with Charles Young of Paperholm; which I linked to just a day or so ago.
Unfollowing everyone
Helena Price on Medium: What if we made more active decisions about how we spent our Internet time? If we weren’t bogged down maintaining our inboxes and social networks, who would we…
Lovejoy Mosaic
What an incredible photo mosaic of Comet C/2014Q2 Lovejoy! I also recommend doing some further research on Lovejoy himself and the other comets he discovered. /via Coudal Partners’ Fresh Signals.
Paperholm
Charles Young, no relation to the West Wing’s own Charlie Young I presume, is building a paper city one daily model at a time.
A note about blogging
Great quote from Dave Winer: A good blog exists independently of people reading it.
Should I rent more space from Picturelife?
I’ve reached my capacity on Picturelife.* I want to rent more space but I’m hesitant because every other company that has attempted what Picturelife is doing has failed or been acquired and scuttled….
Bill Gates drinks poop
For good reason! Bill Gates shows us an amazing machine that turns feces into drinkable water. And that is not all. The by-products of this process, in addition to the water, are…
Elon Musk AMA
Reddit continues to be the best place to find public interviews with interesting people. Elon Musk did an AMA yesterday — fascinating stuff. Here is part of his answer to how he…
We don’t get to choose what is popular
Marco Arment had a rough day. He published a thoughtful, yet quick, post about Apple’s software quality. Most of us that follow and use Apple products nodded our heads in agreement as…
PhotoMath
You can put this app in the “I’ll likely never, ever use it” category but man does this look very well done. /via Mark Christian/Mike Davidson on Twitter.
JMAP
In a world where every new e-mail client must support Gmail or die, this is a breath of fresh air. JMAP, from FastMail, is an API that improves upon IMAP. It is…
What Just Happened?
Fred Wilson uses 2014 as a lens to see not only what happened but what is happening: the “sharing economy” was outed as the “rental economy.” nobody is sharing anything. people are…
Barley CMS Media Library
Over on the Barley blog we wrote: today we’re very excited to let you know that a brand-new media uploading and management experience is now available This was a lot of fun…
More Aaron Draplin
Over the last few weeks Aaron Draplin’s video for Lynda.com made the rounds. However, over on the great Metafilter there is a post by filthy light thief chocked full of Draplin stuff.
Tuesday Scrapple 2
See Scrapple 1. I’m begrudgingly using Evernote. It is working. But I wish the sync capabilities were equal to Simplenote’s. Tip: Close your inbox. Only open it when you’re reading and/or writing…
14 days of committing
It has been 14 days since I said I’d be committing for 30 weekdays straight. I’ve committed code 12 out of those 14 days. (This weekend Eliza and I painted our living…
Playback any Google Doc’s keystrokes
James Somers: If you’ve ever typed anything into a Google Doc, you can now play it back as if it were a movie — like traveling through time to look over your…
The Internet’s First Family
Stephen Thomas goes long on Metafilter: So: Nominally, MetaFilter is a venue for people to talk about things other people have done, intelligently and with respect for each other (if not necessarily…
Flick Scrolling
Simon (simurai): Flick Scrolling in short: An idea of a new gesture that extends scrolling content on a touch-screen. Instead of letting momentum stop the scrolling, you can decide exactly where it…
Stop caring about follower counts
Matt Gemmell on what has changed for him in 2014 — mainly, that he no longer worries about things like stats, follower counts, and numbers. He now writes for him. But he…
Instagram hits 300M, gives 5 new filters, then deletes millions of accounts. All on purpose.
This is just me shooting from the hip here, but follow me through the last few days of Instagram news to see if, perhaps, they might have done all of this on…
The Case for Slow Programming
Jeffrey Ventrella: Any coder who claims that fast programming is the same as slow programming (except that it’s fast), doesn’t understand Design Process. For the same reason that many neuroscientists now believe…
World War Pocket Notes
There are a lot of choices for pocket notebooks so which pocket notebook is the best value? /toby on blogspot: SOooo, that then leads us to… WHICH ONE do I buy? If…
Tuesday Scrapple 1
Inspired by local blogger and reporter Andy Palumbo’s scrapple posts — I’ve decided to try my hand at it. Today’s scrapple: There are about 3 people in the entire world that know…
30 weekdays of commits
Similar to the 30 weekday blog challenge… I’m going to challenge myself, and you dear reader, to 30 weekdays of committing code to one of your projects. Any project. The projects I’m…
Combo Feeds on Barley CMS
This was fun to work on. Since I did 30 weekdays of blogging I think now I’ll aim for 30 weekdays of committing code to Barley CMS.
Odd JavaScript issue
Update Fixed! With this tweet Jim Lind has saved my day. So, I’m working on issue #52 for Unmark and I’m having what is quickly becoming the oddest issue I’ve ever had…