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The web consists of content, content consists of words and words can be long, very long. Everyone involved with the web will sooner or later have to deal with…

Early this year, the Internet Archive put out a call for a distributed web . We heard them loud and clear. Today I'm making an announcement that begins our…

New Ratatat album! OK, released July, but that's basically 0-day in dad time. avclub.com/review/ratatat…

Providing a solid base for redesigning the native select element

Idle Words > Talks > What Happens Next Will Amaze You This is the text version of a talk I gave on September 14, 2015, at the FREMTIDENS INTERNET conference in…

We are considering a move from England to Scotland in the next year or so and in order to make a decision about where to live etc. I need information on…

Opening a savings account in a child's name may seem like a great way to give Junior a head start on a lifetime of thrift. However, it can come back to haunt…

I spent a good chunk of the last four days installing an Internet web forum, which claims it can be up and running in 30 minutes. I like to think I’m pretty…

Microservices are a thing these days. When I was at SoundCloud , I was responsible for the migration from a monolithic Ruby on Rails application to a…

In a 1997 segment on the short-lived tech TV show The Site, host Soledad O’Brien sits at a bar in front of a laptop computer, talking to Dev Null, a full-scale…

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“Hunting for distribution rights is essentially detective work,” says Marcin Paczyński, Head of Product at GOG. “Rights can repeatedly change hands or be split…

What is automatic enrolment? The law on workplace pensions has changed. Every employer with at least one member of staff now has new duties, including enrolling…

I just had my responsive images epiphany and I'm writing it all down before I forget everything. This is what I know… Fixed size, varying density If your image…

How to keep your kids happy at 30,000 feet: a frequent-flying mum reveals her top tips. At holiday time, parents around the world worry about the ‘joys’ of…

A new favourite ambiguous headline: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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Three years ago, I started making these fun characters out of food for my daughter’s school lunches. Anonymous internet parents started telling me “You have too…

It’s all too easy to force push to the wrong branch, overwriting someone else’s changes with your own. Sometimes it results in losing work (unless you know how…

Apr 4th 2015 THE history of economics has been, among other things, a story of learning to care less about land. The physiocrats of 18th-century France saw it…

After 5 years, the time has come. This is my last week as Etsy’s CTO. Five years ago I joined a tiny site, with a struggling software product. I wasn’t sure how…

Toddlers and preschoolers can watch online kids movies safely and easily at the kids movie website ToddlerTube.co.uk Every kids film has been verified as…

This post is part of a sponsorship with VTech. I remember those last days before my second child was born. Besides worrying about the obvious labor pains,…

Key bits of the world’s infrastructure still run on a bunch of flimsy shell scripts that seem like they’d break all the time but don’t. If a computer program…

Sam Lambert joined GitHub in 2013 as the company’s first database administrator, and is now the company’s director of technology. In this interview, he…

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The chef and cookbook author April Bloomfield invites T into her kitchen. Roast chestnuts until fragrant and beginning to split. Dissolve sugar in water over…

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Unsplash It unsplash Basic Usage Just put your image size (width & height) after our URL and you'll get a placeholder. https://unsplash.it/200/300 To get a…

As many of us move away from designing pages toward designing systems, one concept keeps cropping up: modularity. We often hear about the benefits of a modular…

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The secret key combination to drag a pane back to a window or to the tab bar is: command + shift + option, while dragging the pane body (not its header!).

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According to Tara Swart, a neuroscientist and senior lecturer at MIT, your “terrible twos” and those turbulent teen years are when the brain’s wiring is most malleable. As a result, traumatic experiences that occur during these time periods can alter brain activity and ultimately change gene expressions—sometimes for good.