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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.

Via blech.

Python CSS/Javascript minifier

Via monospaced.

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.

Via kevan.

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.

Via monospaced.

Via jamesholloway.

"Read/sync your IMAP mailboxes". Using this to back up Gmail.

Monitors changes in the file system. As soon as you save a file, it is preprocessed as needed, and the browser is refreshed.

Unofficial app showing the current BBC 6Music playlist.

I guess I might not be going for dual English/Dutch nationality after all, then.

Via blech.

A simple command line tool to generate CSS sprites

Easy to forget.

Useful but non-validating attributes for forms.

Peter Grundy carries on the work of Grundy & Northedge, explaining life imaginatively and individually in words and pictures, for clients who seek invention and imagination.

Properly amazing.

Via stml.

Convore pivots.

A simple online tool that converts static Markdown text files located in your Dropbox, into a beautiful web log.