Links from 2014 (497 links)

I love Github – I think it’s made contributing to open source 1000% more approachable and enjoyable. But I’ve found the open source maintainer workflow that…

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Chris Roos Introduction We’re going to see whether we can start a credit union . We’ve been talking about this for a while and we’ve decided to use our current…

After running a service that delivers new work opportunities to designers and developers , I’ve come to realize most of us do portfolios wrong. Your online…

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Introduction SUIT CSS is a reliable and testable styling methodology for component-based UI development . A collection of CSS packages and build tools are…

Editorial can be just a text editor, but its true potential and versatility are revealed by an Automator-inspired interface that is the foundation for workflows to automate text editing, web services, image manipulation, and more -- all on an iPad, without needing a Mac.

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Public servants can't pivot to a new problem or a new set of users. They have to solve the problem that's in front of them, and, probably, they'll have to keep solving it for years. That's something that the 'civic tech' community is going to have to face.

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[DEPRECATED] Elastic (autosize) textareas for AngularJS, without jQuery dependency.

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Finally found something sciencey. Or at least, someone who attempts to look at literature, rather than parroting guesswork.

Craft is for folks who like to take their time and do things right, building out their HTML, CSS, and JS by hand. This is not a site builder or some sort of design tool. There are no themes, and you won’t find any flashy UI tools full of sliders and other gadgets that will help you “design” your website in minutes.

bounce.js lets you create tasty CSS3 powered animations in no time. Give it a spin .

Chapanis had recognised that human beings’ propensity to make mistakes when they are tired is much harder to fix than the design of levers. His deeper insight was that people have limits, and many of their mistakes are predictable effects of those limits. That is why the architects of CRM defined its aim as the reduction of human error, rather than pilot error. Rather than trying to hire or train perfect pilots, it is better to design systems that minimise or mitigate inevitable human mistakes.

Automating Web Performance Measurement with PSI - a new #nodejs module http://t.co/lVqO0gyaIU ~ works great with @gulpjs & @gruntjs

S Who knew that LEGO designed their figures’ hands perfectly to hold Apple lightning and other types of cables? Stick a LEGO brick on your desk, attach LEGO…

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A mother needs to know herself, to own up to the diverse, contradictory, often overwhelming feelings evoked by motherhood. It doesn't matter whether she stays at home, goes out to work, is partnered or single. Only a mother who can face her own inner turbulence can make sense of her child's. It's only by accepting that at times you are a bad mother, that you can ever be a good mother.

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When the American Academy of Sleep Medicine reviewed the literature on infant and child sleep training, it reported that in 17 out of 19 published studies, unmodified extinction—the clinical term for crying-it-out—effectively reduced bedtime resistance and the frequency of nighttime wakings, concluding that it “has a strong record of accomplishment.”

Editorial 1.1 is ace. New features, universal app so iPhone-happy, top Markdown editing and a Python interpreter. olemoritz.net/whats-new-in-e…

Looks like I picked a great year to move my 500+ recipes over to Springpad. Back to Markdown and Dropbox, then. springpad.com/blog/2014/05/s…

Macbook mumps.

If you're thinking about switching from Gmail to FastMail, you can try out FastMail while still running everything through your Gmail account.

Of all the tech changes I’ve made in the last few years, moving from Google Apps mail to Fastmail is the one that’s made me the happiest, every day.

If you, like me, have used a white-noise machine to help your wee one sleep, you probably had a panic attack when you…

From Nigerian reports on Boko Haram to talk shows about Australian escalators, this fascinating website allows listeners to share the breakfast concerns of people across the planet.

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Good perspective on current state of responsive images from @tkadlec - http://t.co/kPfeZYZMni

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I found a little beetle; so that Beetle was his name, And I called him Alexander and he answered just the same.

Web API to make smart devices with the Arduino shield you already own

The Feature API is how we selectively enable and disable features at a very fine grain as well as enabling features for a percentage of users for operational ramp-ups and for A/B tests. A feature can be completely enabled, completely disabled, or something in between and can comprise a number of related variants.