Bulletproof Accessible Icon Fonts Hot on the heels of Ian Feather's piece on SVG vs. icon fonts (vide infra), the Filament Group published their own lessons learned about using icon fonts in the wild. (tagged: accessibility fonts icon fonts ) Software in 2014 Tim Bray's current "state of the union" on the software engineering field, […]
Why mobile web apps are slow Drew Crawford (Sealed Abstract) wrote this a few weeks ago and I finally (finally? finally!) got around to reading it start-to-finish. The best part about it is that (as he says in the first paragraph) his discussion is entirely fact-based. And where possible he is also illustrating his methods […]
Do the right thing, Wait to get fired Brendan Sterne: In general these rules are better than the alternative – no guideposts or structure. They help new managers and teams to function effectively. They push employees to do things in a good way. But greatness rarely happens by following rules, process and structure. That is […]
Bash One-Liners Explained, Part II: Working with strings Nice round-up by Peteris Krumins, with good explanations. (tagged: bash ) Shall we use Clojure A presentation by Andrew Jones. Have you heard all these points before? Hear them again. (tagged: Andrew Jones Clojure ) Guide to CSS support in email At Campaign Monitor. Looks handy. (tagged: […]
Delicious Deal at Seven Days — that's our café! (tagged: food Dealer.com ) Pandoc Well that looks… awesome. (tagged: markdown markup haskell text conversion todo ) A reading list for JVM-based developers at Prehensile Tail (tagged: jvm java work todo ) DOCUMERICA: Images of America in Crisis in the 1970s Alan Taylor, The Atlantic; fascinating […]
Strip Mining the Authors The Passive Voice; filed under: "some of the reasons that I'm taking a serious look at self-publishing." (tagged: writing publishing ) Swagger "A simple, open standard for describing REST APIs with JSON" (tagged: api documentation framework development generator work ) About Pepper Spray At Scientific American Blog Network — short version: […]
The Maisel vs Baio Incident In case you haven't been paying attention, Duncan Davidson on the court case that never was: Maisel vs. Baio: Should Jay have the right to claim the derived image isn’t fair use and ask for a cease and desist? Yes. He’s not, as many are saying, a dick for his […]
TSA Glass Box Mother Over Stored Breast Milk at X-Ray Nation (via DF; emphasis added): My patience wears thin and I start crying. It is hard to see on this video, but real tears wouldn’t stop streaming down my face. About 10 minutes into all this, a Phoenix PD comes to calm me down. I […]
Getting Published is Not a Crap Shoot Victoria Strauss: If you’ve written a marketable book, if you done your research, if you’re smart and persistent, you have a very reasonable chance of finding publication. Maybe. (tagged: writing publishing ) Olbermann Suspension is Lunacy Matt Taibbi (at Rolling Stone): Again, that would be true even if […]
WordPress Optimization Bible at Prelovac.com (tagged: blog cache optimization performance wordpress ) PHP « Programming « Portfolio lesterchan.net : book marked for wp-dbmanager (tagged: wordpress plugin ) Ajax code loading optimization techniques by Bill Higgins (via Rebecca Murphey) (tagged: ajax javascript optimization performance todo ) YUI Doc (tagged: api code documentation generator javascript JSdoc yuidoc […]