Articles, ideas, and references I want to find again.
A List Apart: The Full Feed
Three weeks ago, A List Apart went open source. The markup on the website is something I feel very close to. Over the years, if I’ve been unsure of how to mark something up, I’ve often referenced the HTML on A List Apart to see how it’s been done there because I know the people who work on it really care about…
The Morning News - Headlines
UN reports 300,000 Nigerians uprooted and displaced as a result of Boko Harem violence. Unlike Standard Oil and Carnegie Steel, Facebook and Google are everywhere and nowhere, making today’s image of “the worker” similarly invisible. President Abe reconsiders Japan’s official apology to “comfort women,” aka, military…
Search Engine Land: News & Info About SEO, PPC, SEM, Search Engines & Search Marketing · Danny Sullivan
Bernard Leong · Bernard Leong
I wished that I knew about the book “Mastering the Rockefeller Habits” by Verne Harnish when I was working on my startup a few years back. There are definitely things that we should not have done during that time. Jamie Lee, the co-founder of Lunch Actually and now Prizle (which I am an investor in […]The post If you…
UXGia
The Bad #1Tens of thousands of commuters pass by this full front ad at Yishun MRT everyday. I bet everyone who has seen the ad finds it inspiring and creative. But the campaign is doomed to fail. The call to action message is so inconspicious nobody would ever notice that the invitation to donate by tapping at the…
Subtraction.com
Now that we’ve got the basics of Wildcard’s identity in place, we’ve started to work on some of the supporting elements. I don’t really make it a habit to carry business cards anymore but I’ve always enjoyed the exercise of encapsulating contact details and the most basic elements of a brand into a small, 3 x 2.5-in.…
Rands in Repose · rands
Written in 1965. Rings painfully true today. Defense arousal prevents the listener from concentrating upon the message. Not only do defensive communicators send off multiple value, motive and affect cues, but also defensive recipients distort what they receive. As a person becomes more and more defensive, he or she…
Feed: stratēchery by Ben Thompson · Ben Thompson
This article is by definition very US-centric, but the general principles apply broadly For anyone remotely connected to technology, the idea that net neutrality is an unabashed good seems incontrovertible, and one of the most popular examples of why it matters is Netflix. Consumers get a video competitor to their…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Steve Jobs, back in 1997, on the strategy that still guides Apple today.
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"I never expected such hate and venom for merely having a computer cell phone on my head"
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
The Morning News - Headlines
Ukraine’s acting leadership—whom Russia claims “seized power”—to meet with EU for economic assistance. The Russian media continually make the claim that the Ukrainians who protest are Nazis. In China, anti-vice campaign threatens Dongguan’s economic stability, which depends almost entirely on sex tourism. His pride…
Schneier on Security · schneier
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
ImperialViolet – Apple’s SSL/TLS bug as we all know by now, a misplaced “goto fail” caused a critical, huge security flaw in versions of IOS and OSX SSL, since late 2012. Lessons: 1. unit test the failure cases, particularly for critical security code! 2. use braces. 3. dead-code analysis would have caught this. I’m…
Wondermark · David Malki
This post originally ran during the LAST Winter Olympics, in 2014. I think it’s STILL VERY RELEVANT. stirring olympic narratives: • the athlete trained very hard • his/her country wants him/her to win • his/her family is very supportive — David Malki ! (@malki) February 13, 2014 Like lots of you perhaps, I’m watching…
dullneon.com - random notes, links and pixels · Jaffry Jalal
The Space Project is making me giddy with anticipation.
information aesthetics
Several research groups around the world in the area of mobility and transportion optimization are exploring the use of a particular slime mould, Physarum polycephalum (the "many-headed slime"), to establish the most efficient routes around congested cities and countries. The moeba-like creature forages for food by…
The Official Google Blog · Emily Wood
A List Apart: The Full Feed · Sara Wachter-Boettcher
Public speaking is tough. You’re trying not to say “um” too much or speak too fast or crash your presentation or poop your pants or do any of the million horrible things that, in those first few minutes you’re up on stage, feel way too possible. I started speaking at web conferences a couple years ago, and have since…
Subtraction.com
Published on Medium: a truly superb memo from Slack founder and CEO Stewart Butterfield to his team on the challenge that they faced several months before launch. There’s so much good stuff in there, so it’s hard to pick out the best quotes, but here are two of my favorites: “Therefore, ‘understanding what people…
LukeW | Digital Product Design + Strategy · [email protected]
In his presentation at the An Event Apart in Atlanta GA, Jared Spool walked through the importance of content and user experience for businesses. Here are my notes from his talk: Content Maters Great content stands by itself. It doesn't need a lot of embellishment. Sites are filled with content. But what is the…
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
GPLv2 being tested in US court The case is still ongoing, so one to watch. Plaintiff wrote an XML parser and made it available as open source software under the GPLv2. Defendant acquired from another vendor software that included the code, and allegedly distributed that software to parties outside the organization.…
Feed: stratēchery by Ben Thompson · Ben Thompson
Before the Internet, the nodes of communication were houses, and the killer app was the telephone. Presuming both you and I were in our respective houses, I could dial a number, and we could talk. It was marvelous, and in retrospect, primitive; real-time is much less interesting, and much more limiting, when it’s the…
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
Trousseau ‘an interesting approach to a common problem, that of securely passing secrets around an infrastructure. It uses GPG signed files under the hood and nicely integrates with both version control systems and S3.’ I like this as an approach to securely distributing secrets across a stack of services during…
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
Git is not scalable with too many refs/* Mailing list thread from 2011; git starts to keel over if you tag too much (tags: git tags coding version-control bugs scaling refs) Survey results of EU teens using the internet A lot of unsupervised use: Just under half of children said they access the internet from [...]
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
“A data scientist is a …” “A data scientist is a statistician who lives in San Francisco” – slide from Monkigras this year. lols (tags: data-scientist statistics statistician funny jokes san-francisco tech monkigras) The Million Dollar Deal – YouTube My mate Luke’s doc on the World Series of Poker — now online in…
collision detection · Clive Thompson
Yoast · Michiel Heijmans
In our site reviews we check a website from multiple angles, and because of that we use a variety of tools to determine what to advise. Some tools are for analysing, some for clearing things up when we are in doubt. It only seems logical to provide you with a list of some of these…This post first appeared on Yoast.…
timoni.org
“Just as much as our job is to build something genuinely useful, something which really does make people’s working lives simpler, more pleasant and more productive, our job is also to understand what people think they want and then translate the value of Slack into their terms.” - We Don’t Sell Saddles Here, by…
The Year of the Looking Glass - Medium · Julie Zhuo
Last week I saw two visions for the future. The first is Her—a moving take on the nuances of relationships in an AI-possible world—and the…
Bernard Leong · Bernard Leong
If you are seriously looking for an Italian restaurant with great service in Singapore, Ristorante Da Valentino stood out to be probably the top on the list. It was started by Chef Valentino and his family in July 2005 with humble roots in a shop house along Rifle Range road. Subsequently it was moved to […]The post…
Neil Gaiman's Journal · [email protected] (Neil Gaiman)
That was interesting. On Friday I recorded and put up Green Eggs and Ham. I'd actually already recorded a reading at the beginning of January: it was nice and elegant, filmed in an oak-panelled library in Cambridge, with a blazing fire behind me. I was relatively nattily dressed and as coiffed as I get. The only…
Signal vs. Noise · Jason Fried
We’re looking to add another product designer to our team! We don’t hire for this position often, so we really savor moments like these. We’re eagerly anticipating hearing from you. Besides design, your job is to make an undeniably positive impact on our company, our culture, our products, and our customers. As long…
All in the head · Drew McLellan
A List Apart: The Full Feed
In this week’s issue of A List Apart, Val Head wrote about animations and how they can improve user experience. Val provided some demos, and we had to decide how to feature them. We prefer to host demos on our own servers, a practice that guards against link rot. Link rot occurs when a site re-organizes their URL…
Schneier on Security · moderator
Chris Hates Writing
Yesterday Sam Altman published a short post containing his thoughts on Secret, and also anonymity in general—namely that it breeds meanness, and that anonymous social networks are destined to decay and grow worse over time. I strongly disagree. What I’ve observed is the opposite—that anonymity facilitates honest…
information aesthetics
Fathom Design, lead by visualization design pioneer Ben Fry, just released Year in Nike Fuel [yearinnikefuel.com]. Based on Nike's public developer APIs, the posters allow various kinds of patterns to be recognized, as the working dad, the mountaineer, the gym-rat, or the city slicker all have distinct patterns,…
Inside Facebook · Dennis Yu
My friend Jaron Ray Hinds shared this with us today — a social music startup that is getting conversions for 5 cents each. No jedi tricks, mass-scaled ad multiplication, or crazy targeting. Just optimized CPM bidding...
timoni.org
“In Movie OS, visual storytelling is used to make the system’s important, critical reaction to a user’s action abundantly clear. In Movie OS, you know if you’re logging into Facebook. I’d argue that visual storytelling doesn’t exist – if it does, it hardly exists at all – in computer or consumer eletronics user…
timoni.org
“’ve often discussed with my partner, Erik, how interesting it is that I assume a personal baseline of insufficiency whereas he assumes a baseline of greatness. In each of our cases, there are deviations—there are days he feels less excellent, and there are days I feel more excellent. But our resting states are…
timoni.org
“Every person who works in a creative field has an aspiration for her work, a yearning for that ideal plane which is the culmination of her taste. When an environment fails, over and over and over again, to provide her with a means to follow her internal compass, then she will leave. If you are in a position to…