A readable Wikipedia
The people behind 1910 Design & Company took at stab at redesigning Wikipedia: While big parts of the internet have gone through an amazing journey in terms of typography these last years,…
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Non-nerds missing out on RSS?
Conor McClure, on his personal blog: What is an RSS feed? I thought you’d never ask. No, really; the non-geek community is seriously missing out by not taking advantage of RSS in…
Communication for America
Jeremy’s title. Not mine. Jeremy Keith chimes in about remote work (see last post) and the advantages the “time shift” can have when working on large client projects: As it turned out, it…
Making remote teams work
The excellent Mandy Brown, CEO of Editorially, on Making remote teams work: One of the most unexpected things that I’ve learned from working remotely is that it isn’t just about accommodating different…
Pedometer++ 2.0
I’m loving Pedometer++. If you don’t have it, get it. It is free. And, it has just seen a significant update that adds some great features and a new design. Also worth…
VelocityPage for WordPress
One of the most common misconceptions about Barley is that it helps you with page layout in some way. It does not. You can’t change anything about a page’s layout using Barley…
Choose the right path for you
Chris Poole, on his personal blog: Not every idea represents a venture-backed opportunity though. That isn’t to say the idea or opportunity lacks merit—it’s just that another vehicle may be more appropriate…
How snakes fly
Rebecca Morelle has written a piece for the BBC explaining that scientists have figured out how snakes can glide through the jungle: Prof Socha said: “As it jumps, it flattens out from…
Kiddo
My friend Yaron Schoen, whom I met at Greenville Grok last year, has a new startup that he’s been working on for at least a year. It is called Kiddo and it…
Rob Cockerham makes clear ice
Rob Cockerham was determined to make clear ice in his home refrigerator. It took him well over a dozen different tries and methods. Until: Around this time, I spotted a crystal-clear ice…
App.net Hackathon recap
The official ADN blog: The fourth #adnhackation was this past Saturday, and, as always, developers worked on some extremely creative and inventive projects, which open up new uses for an App.net account….
Jared Sinclair on the new Dark Sky
Jared Sinclair, on his personal blog, on the new Dark Sky: The raw idea for the redesign is good; the three-panel view with a side panel for the globe is an interesting…
How Van Gogh‘s Sunflowers came into bloom
Not everyone understood Van Gogh’s work at first. Frances Spalding for The Gaurdian: The artist Henry de Groux threatened to remove his own work from the 1890 exhibition if he found it…
Killing the Crunch Mode Antipattern
Chad Fowler, CTO of 6Wunderkinder, has written a post on his personal blog about how our industry glorifies working long hours and how it is ironically counterproductive. I agree and in general Chad…
Revival Letterpress in Scranton, PA
A friend of our team, Matthew Hiller, has a great letterpress shoppe in Scranton, PA and his little business got covered in our local newspaper: Each order begins with a client consultation,…
The Mac turns 30
We’ve come a long way in 30 years. Steven Levy, writing for Rolling Stone in 1984: On a pleasant, light background (you can later change the background to any of a number…
“There are no black holes” – Stephen Hawking
I’m not going to even pretend to fully grasp this, however, I simply had so link to it. Stephen Hawking has published a paper on arXiv.org titled Information preservation and weather forecasting for…
There was a supernova in the Cigar Galaxy yesterday
Well, not yesterday. Since the Cigar Galaxy, or M82, is roughly 12 million lightyears from our little hometown planet this supernova likely occurred some, well, 12 million years ago. Mike Hankey, quoting Star…
No one geotags photos on Instagram
I do. MG Siegler does. But, as he writes, on his personal blog: Instagram is a service with hundreds of millions of users. And it seems that a large percentage of them…
Building an open source Nest thermostat
Fun, neat thing Spark did. They built an open source Nest thermostat in a day: All in, we spent about $70 on components to put this together (including $39 for the Spark…
Developer Tip Tuesday
Dara Skolnick, who has a beautiful personal blog, writes a tip on Tuesdays for developers. She has a two-part series on developing locally. As you’ve probably already figured out, WordPress is written…
Glucose level measuring smart contact lenses by Google[x]
Brian Otis and Babak Parvis on the Official Google Blog: We’re now testing a smart contact lens that’s built to measure glucose levels in tears using a tiny wireless chip and miniaturized…
Internet 3.0
Fred Wilson, on his personal blog, on the doomsday scenario that is likely being created by the ruling on Net Neutrality: Telcos will pick their preferred partners, subsidize the data costs for…
True wisdom from Ben Brooks
Chris Gonzales has started an excellent Artifacts series on his personal blog Unretrofied. His first in the series is with Ben Brooks and, well, I suppose you learn something new every day….
Twitter + Stripe
Jason Del Ray & Mike Isaac, reporting for re/code, say Twitter and Stripe are near a deal to allow Twitter to accept credit cards in some fashion. I think they hit the…
How will the world remember landmark design on the web?
Jason Santa Maria, on The Pastry Box Project: We talk all the time on our personal and periodical sites about the latest techniques for design, but how often do we break down…
Stupid people and the stock market
I had written a much longer draft of this post called “Greed and ignorance in the stock market” but after writing what became a very long, whiny post about how I used to…
What does quality mean?
Derek Sivers, on his newly rejuvenated personal blog, on Quality, quoting Benjamin Joffe: In Japan, if I ask almost anyone what quality means, they’ll say, ‘it’s perfect – zero defects’. Japanese culture…
Rebuilding Nilai
Timeline: In March 2012 I decided to hack away on a side project called Nilai.
Writing is Thinking
Sally Kerrigan, on A List Apart: When you write about your work, it makes all of us smarter for the effort, including you—because it forces you to go beyond the polite cocktail-party…