Crafting a README By Chris White, writing at the Engine Yard Developer Blog. Most of this should seem like common sense, but I'm also glad someone went to the trouble of writing it down. He mentions Markdown in the blog post, but I'd really try to underscore that point: that Markdown really ought to be […]
Valid JavaScript variable names Mathias Bynens going deep on the sometimes confusing world of JavaScript variable names. (tagged: javascript ) David Foster Wallace: The Big, Uncut Interview (2003) At Open Culture (via @fogus) (tagged: video culture interview politics literature David Foster Wallace ) Is Device-Friendly Development a Responsibility? Some musings from local dev Mike Fowler […]
An Event Apart: CSS Best Practices Luke W.'s notes on Nicole Sullivan's "CSS Best Practices" talk at AEA Atlanta in February 2012. I saw a version of this talk given "at" (it was a virtual conference) E4H's "CSS Summit" in July 2011. (tagged: css ) MIT’s New Free Courses May Threaten (and Improve) the Traditional […]
Lightspeed magazine #1 at Tor.com — the online Lightspeed magazine is edited/curated by John Joseph Adams (who happens to be one hell of an editor); check it out and show some support (tagged: Lightspeed scifi literature ) ‘Lost’: The Essential Reading List at EW.com (via B²) (tagged: Lost reading literature ) Do LESS with Less.js […]
Name Your Band, Create Your Album Cover With Wikipedia & Flickr at Synthtopia (via JA) – I came up with: (tagged: todo flickr language surreal fun ) The Joy of Clojure ‘grats to my man Mike (tagged: Clojure friend ) Two Gentlemen of Lebowski via B² – EPIC (tagged: lebowski parody literature humor fun ) […]
Beverage Company McKinlay And Co. Drills For Vintage Scotch Whiskey In Antarctica at cbs5.com (via B²) — I wish all news stories were like this. It has everything! (tagged: whiskey conservation Antarctica environment history news ) Pasadena Yoga Some linky love for a friend's yoga program down in MD. (tagged: Maryland yoga friend ) Hacked […]
Odd Man Out. Why isn’t anyone else taking paternity leave? (tagged: parenting essay ) 9 Most Common IE Bugs and How to Fix Them at Nettuts+ – just keep reminding yourself (tagged: webdev IE debugging work ) A bug’s dance at The University of Chicago Magazine: Arts & Sciences – “Julia Oldham’s artwork is inspired […]
Spoiled: Organic and Local Is So 2008 by Paul Roberts (at Mother Jones) — the gist seems to be: re-evaluate your assumptions about what sustainable agriculture means (hint: it involves more than just carbon footprints and whether/not the farm is organic; see also: labor conditions, see also: man-hours of labor) and maybe be prepared to […]
Though perhaps a more appropriate name might be lolDigg or lolSlashdot or some such…
These are my links for January 30th through February 2nd: