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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.

It depends.

A leaderboard of the top open-source static site generators.

Read e-books on the web

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

is the easiest way for teams to provide feedback on websites.

is the quickest way to prototype interface screens for user testing feedback. Learn where people get confused by page interactions.

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.

For those that need homebrew but like GUIs.

Via ttscoff.

A markdown code documentation system, capable of producing documentation similar to Three.js and Backbone.js.

Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf. Your agents are standing by!

Build agents that monitor and act on your behalf. Your agents are standing by!

This looks great.

Moving away from platforms that aren't doing the business.

A good day for rediscovering The Council Flats of Kingsbury debut LP. Fun in the sun, see. shop.unchartedaudio.com/album/the-coun…

Via jamesholloway.

Looks like I'm the last person in the world to hear about enohyde.com

Creating a product that the designer does not believe improves the user’s life and which the maker would not use is exploitation.

Another PHP-based SSG.

I'm not saying we can't have the fun next-generation Internet, where everyone wears stupid goggles and has profound conversations with their refrigerator. I'm just saying we can't slap it together like we've been doing so far and expect everything to work itself out.

The good news is, it's a design problem! You're all designers here - we can make it fun! We can build an Internet that's distributed, resilient, irritating to governments everywhere, and free in the best sense of the word, like we dreamed of in the 90's. But it will take effort and determination. It will mean scrapping permanent mass surveillance as a business model, which is going to hurt. It will mean pushing laws through a sclerotic legal system. There will have to be some nagging.