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An alternative to an alternative.

Allows you to add a dynamically-resized background image to any page. The image will stretch to fit the page, and will automatically resize as the window size changes.

"An initiative for knowing the people behind a website." Cute.

Vintage terminal editor. "Disregard thirty years of GUI advancement by immersing yourself in full-screen mode. Impress curious onlookers at internet cafes."

Ultralight wireframe tool.

Streamline your git workflow: just type `pull`, `branch`, `merge`, `push`

We designed the C-Loop in response to how the traditional top mounted camera strap always gets in the way. By relocating the mounting position to the bottom of the camera and integrating a swivel, we discovered numerous benefits that improved the shooting experience when using a camera strap.

Via tomcoates.

Shard 2012 is an online exhibition of 'future photography' of the Shard exploring some of the vantage points from where the Shard might be photographed in 2012 when it is completed.

You're so busy, doing everything yourself. You know you need help, but to find and train someone would take more time than you have! So you keep working harder, until you break.

The national body which supports, assists and develops charitable re-use organisations across the UK. We do this to reduce poverty by helping households in need access furniture, white goods and other household items at affordable prices.

I personally feel that until a developer is interested enough in learning about patterns to make the leap to invest in these, the majority of material they have accessible online doesn’t focus enough on how to apply design patterns to JavaScript or jQuery. That’s where having a free book of this nature comes in useful.

"Use bcrypt. Use bcrypt. Use bcrypt. Use bcrypt. Use bcrypt. Use bcrypt. Use bcrypt. Use bcrypt. Use bcrypt." Thanks, Pete.

Via thegingerbloke.

Via nickandjess.

A small collection of unobtrusive functions like open link in new window, input/textarea autoclear etc.

Oh, you big bullies. I quite like it.

Bleaugh.

Via plasticbag.

Using ARIA landmark roles in HTML5 documents instead of IDs to provide styling hooks. Clever.

"A tool for building and distributing virtualized development environments." Rather super.

Opened up a few months ago: "The Cloister Café Bar is open daily in the Church's 15th Century Cloister serving excellent coffee, fine wines, monastic beers and delicious food."

"After 4 years, Tinker is closing." Sad.

"The hotly anticipated iPad paper is a bit of a Murdoch gamble, with 100 staff and a budget of $30m The Daily, and will be the first proper test to see if consumers will pay for a tablet only newspaper." Good luck with that.

Backup, collaboration, and project organization designed for pro audio professionals.

Design and print custom pocket notebooks.

Nice parallax effect; feels like a one-shot, though. Interesting to see this level of HTML5 + related in a campaign site.

Use multiple text-shadows to create 3D text on any HTML element.

Via nickandjess.

Rather fine indeed.

Via blech.

A new (but work-in-progress) reset from Meyer.

"This monetisation argument is the fetish of the current age. Unfortunately it is utter and complete rubbish. The fundamental problem, as I calculated months ago, is that there’s just not enough money in the app store economy to support a meaningful number of independent developers." Calculations feel rather back-of-envelope but voices of dissent are useful.

"An acquaintance asked, somewhat grumpily, if anything good had happened in the past decade". Always look on the bright side...

Excellent notes on URL design.

Via paul.irish.

Nice.

LX5 optional extras.

"A lightweight [JavaScript] 3D engine with a very low level of abstraction". Mental.

The snark is amusing and this is also a pretty decent list of things to do when building an app.

Back to basics; handy.

Via twoplusfour.