Linkdump for December 27th
¶ by Rob Friesel-
Mike Wall, writing at Space.com with a prediction for 2013. Please read it hand-in-hand with Caleb Scharf's post: "'Earth-Like' Planets May Be Anything But, Astronomer Argues".
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Ilya Grigorik. tl;dr: not all stylesheets are blocking, and here's how to tell the difference between one that is, and one that isn't. (Also: he beats the "compress your images!" drum again in here.)
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Chapter 10 from Alistair Croll and Sean Power's "Complete Web Monitoring" (O'Reilly Media).
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Maura Kelly, writing for The Atlantic:
Why the emphasis on literature? By playing with language, plot structure, and images, it challenges us cognitively even as it entertains. It invites us to see the world in a different way, demands that we interpret unusual descriptions, and pushes our memories to recall characters and plot details.
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Addy Osmani (at Smashing Magazine) with a round-up of talks/presentations on becoming a better front-end engineer. I've seen versions of some of these talks, and perused the decks for several more of them; the others I'll be checking out soon. Quality material — but the usual warning applies with presentation decks you find online: they're never as good as the real thing, but go mining for the buried gems anyway.
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