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A community service to families who find it difficult to provide a birthday cake for their child. The cakes are baked by volunteers from your community with your kid’s favourite theme or style.

What a fine idea.

Cool article on Responsive Typography: http://t.co/8iNfYVPoAR /via @vpieters

Another alternative to Flowdock/Hipchat.

The idea that the market will solve such things as environmental concerns, as our racial divides, as our class distinctions, our problems with educating and incorporating one generation of workers into the economy after the other when that economy is changing; the idea that the market is going to heed all of the human concerns and still maximise profit is juvenile. It's a juvenile notion and it's still being argued in my country passionately and we're going down the tubes. And it terrifies me because I'm astonished at how comfortable we are in absolving ourselves of what is basically a moral choice. Are we all in this together or are we all not?

Responsive images while we wait for srcset to finish cooking

List of useful Quick Look plugins for developers, installed with Homebrew Cask.

I think there is an equally diffuse malaise today - waiting for a new kind of journalism to bring it into focus. Like with McClure's it won't be just a catalogue of shocking facts - it will be an imaginative leap that pulls all the scandals together and shows how they are part of some new system of power that we don't fully comprehend.

There's one view of psychology according to which everything we do to make ourselves miserable – every dysfunctional behaviour, from minor to destructive – begins as an approach that once worked well, often in childhood, then passed its sell-by date. We're not idiots who choose unhappiness; rather, we develop coping mechanisms that make sense at the time.

Easily worth $10.

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A secure and scalable layer that extends express by providing structure and convention.

Backends can be built with/without the use of service providers that provide already built functions. While some startups have the resources to take on such a bold undertaking, many of them are often dealing with scarce resources. To this end, building a backend with the use of service providers (referred to Backend as a Service) saves both time and money.

Via dannydaley.

A continuously updated list of articles that help explain the syntax of JavaScript, how to organize your projects, how to test your code, and what's on the horizon.

Modern CLI process manager for Node apps with a builtin load-balancer.

Rands says use things instead of Things. But I like Things.

Beautifully illustrated, wonderfully written and created especially for every child, this is bespoke storytelling like never before

A map-based guide to vegan, vegan-friendly, and vegetarian places to eat in London. Works great on mobile devices. Includes reviews, descriptions, and food hygiene ratings.

With graded components, we make experience divisions at the component level rather than enhancing or degrading a browser’s entire experience . In the end, grading components rather than browsers allows us to document and follow through with the goal of delivering the most appropriate experience to each and every browser and device.

Does the BBC treasure him? Does it understand the talent it has in its possession? "I don't really think so, no. They don't always say yes. If I say I want to do four hours about brutalism, they'll give me two. The last film we had to do in just 19 days. You can't do any fancy set-ups: no cranes, no dollies. It's not slavery, obviously, but it's much more difficult than it used to be. My subjects are regarded as minoritarian and that's a self-fulfilling prophecy. On BBC2, I used to get 2.5 million to 3 million viewers; now I get a tenth of that on BBC4."

I (could be) on a boat.

Bringing Node.js into PayPal removed the barriers between the layers in the software organization, Node.js and javascript all the way up from just above the services layer to the frontend layer, meaning you need fewer engineers.

In one project there was initially 25-30 java engineers were required to build a simple controller layer. Later this was simplified to a smaller team. But in parallel, the Node.js team did it with just 1-2 node engineers.

If you aren’t going to be satisfied with anything less than being a multi-millionaire living in a hollowed out volcano, then an all-or-nothing, VC-backed start-up crap shoot is probably your only option. And there are markets where you have very little chance of success without venture capital. But really, how much money do you need? Is money going to make you happy? How many meals can you eat in a day? How many cars can you drive?

A directory of human-verified IT career opportunities that allow you to work from home.