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Great review of @font-face performance by Dave Artz: http://t.co/CqPOUaBY

A useful summary.

That's how I roll.

The “management team” isn’t the “decision making” team. It’s a support function. You may want to call them administration instead of management, which will keep them from getting too big for their britches.

Test custom fonts in the browser.

A series of mixes intended for listening while programming to aid concentration and increase productivity (also compatible with other activities).

Frictionless sharing has the same drawback as “effortless poetry”: its final products are often intolerable. It’s one thing to find an interesting article and choose to share it with friends. It’s quite another to inundate your friends with everything that passes through your browser or your app, hoping that they will pick something interesting along the way.

Python CSS/Javascript minifier

Why Varnish, Celery, Solr, and Redis are the new LAMP

I did not. But then I am not an architect or spouse thereof.

"Chinese Encoding and Language Tags". This is going to be fun.

One goal of this was to figure out how much of the variance in score comes from the tile order and how much comes from the board, given that a tile order would be expected. It turns out to be about half-bag, half-board. [...] The blank is worth about 30 points to a good player. [...] The Q is a burden to whichever player receives it, effectively serving as a 5 point penalty.

Parses your readme's markdown into a clean and simple documentation website. Made especially for your gh-pages branch, all you need is a single index.html file that includes the DocumentUp script.

Note to <input x-autocompletetype=email> http://t.co/txxGGiuY beware Tim Berners-Lee’s standards-avenging ninjas bit.ly/vZvzrY

Clever.

London-based printmaker and illustrator. Needs a new, non-Flash site.

a lot of the value of an MVP is testing the risky assumptions every startup has

Contains: 1) an overview of the core gestures used for most touch commands 2) how to utilize these gestures to support major user actions 3) visual representations of each gesture to use in design documentation and deliverables 4) an outline of how popular software platforms support core touch gestures.

If it all gets a bit much, Visual Studio 2010 does include a pleasing beginners' mode where, instead of typing spells, they can be drawn using a convenient drag-and-drop interface. This GUI gameplay eschews much of the complexity of the full game—the compiler gatekeeper is almost always happy, and few bugs will lurk in the resulting dungeons—but works well as a way of learning how to craft spells.