Links from 2013 (601 links)

You can’t substitute experience with process and that is exactly what agile followers end up doing. Take away the experienced people and you have a lot of people executing the rituals of scrum, kanban, or whatever without really understanding what they are doing. The assumption that that will work at all is naive at best and actually rather delusional.

Via monospaced.

Via torrez.

Githug is designed to give you a practical way of learning git. It has a series of levels, each utilizing git commands to ensure a correct answer.

0.9%. Thanks, GDS!

Break something into a module only if it would be useful in another context. Everything else remains an element or component inside a module.

...and many other worthwhile philosophies.

Inefficiency is subjective: what's experienced as inefficiency by me or you is perfectly efficient, actually, just so long as you're a phone company and your goal is making money. Voicemail thus has much in common with "dark patterns", a term coined by the tech consultant Harry Brignull, to refer to the sneaky ways in which websites "trick users into doing things they might not otherwise do, [such as] signing up for recurring bills". As with voicemail, these often look like incompetent design, but they're not. [...] What feels like tiresome inefficiency, born of sloppiness, really arises because it serves someone's interests.

Rich content editing entirely re-imagined for the web: an intuitive editor for web content which does not presuppose anything about how it will be rendered.

Yes.

The heading is important. If you can’t think of a suitable heading for the content within a section element, there’s a good chance you shouldn’t be using the section element at all. Time to consider a div instead.

A Ruby-based stftime generator [...] generate your strftime directives from an example date or time.

The property market is no longer about people making a long-term investment in owning their shelter, but a place for the world’s richest people to park their money at an annualized rate of return of around 10 percent. It has made my adopted hometown a no-go area for increasing numbers of the middle class.

Calculates the optimal minimum time you should be running on battery power each day based on the way you actually use your laptop.

For the battery-obsessed.

Good for VMs

Via linkmachinego.

Via paul.irish.

The whole point of 'digital', the very opportunity of it, is that you don't have to segment people like this. They segement themselves by looking for the thing they want to do.

If your primary focus is on user needs then your task is simple - work out the specific thing people are trying to do and then make it as simple and quick for them as possible. Your design, your engineering, your research, your testing are all then focused on making that one thing work.

Arrow, arrower!

Upload your music for free to iTunes, Spotify and Google Play

"Again, money raised its head: to confront the unavoidable truth that you require financial stability to do what you want to do. And that to whine about that being unfair is perhaps childish and irresponsible because if you’re serious about your art, then you should be, well, serious about creating the conditions in which you can create your art.

Via blech.

Style tools for UI components

An SSG and not an SSG at the same time.

A Bootstrap/Foundation alternative that looks to be a bit less dirty.

$ git checkout --orphan NEWBRANCH

A REST API testing framework built on node.js and Jasmine that makes testing API endpoints easy, fast, and fun.

http-server for node.js is very convenient, and is a lot faster than Python's SimpleHTTPServer.

OK, then.

I think I'd quite like it if designers started using Sketch.

A JavaScript library that helps to construct difficult regular expressions.

Though many Web teams consistently test their products on mobile browsers, few test on the embedded browsers found within the World's most popular native mobile apps. These experiences not only behave differently but are an increasingly significant part of mobile Web browsing activity.

Arguably, Norway has one of the top five most incredible terrains in the known universe. Now you can create your own 3D-printed genuine gypsum heirloom mantelpiece display replica of your favorite part of this formidable landscape in two easy steps!

I've come to believe that it's time for us to take a stand, and refuse to cooperate with this apparatus of secrecy. We've already seen Lavabit, in an act of great moral courage, throw away ten years of hard work rather than acquiesce to blanket monitoring of its users. But the fact that Ladar Levinson wasn't even able to give the reasons for shutting his project down, that we had to infer them from his silence, demonstrates the problem.

A tool that automates your testing of JavaScript across browsers.

Urbex is not for everyone. Let me put that differently: urbex is hardly for anyone. Participation is high in profile but small in number (perhaps 20,000 globally), and the thrills are niche. Not for urbexers the sturm und drang of mountains or the arid elegance of desert exploration. Their epiphanies are mucky, their metaphysics mephitic. The short-term risks are grim: drowning in sewage, falling from girders, gralloched by razor-wire, skewered on scaffolding. Longer-term dangers include respiratory problems from exposure to dusts and gases. I know, I know: why would you? Who would? It is a hugely strange scene, and – occasional claustrophiliac with an intermittent taste for decay that I am – I find myself rather gripped by it.