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For next time I need to add this to some standards docs

OpenDesk is a collection of simple furniture, designed to be cut by a CNC machine. Download and print it yourself or have it made for you by a local maker.

GitHub's deployment tool for local machine and development environment config. Shame it uses Puppet.

A virtual development server based on Stephen Hay's Responsive Design Workflow. Comes with all necessary tools installed: Pandoc, Dexy etc. Cooked up with Vagrant.

...and Ansible.

rbenv-bundler is a near-invaluable plugin that makes the rbenv shims Bundler-aware and alleviates you from needing to type bundler exec in front of every command. It is also easy to install straight from Github.

Very, very high level. But that's OK.

Ranking Linux package managers by freshness.

Insanely complete Ansible playbook, showing off all the options.

"Taking frequent, shallow breaths is inefficient, and tends to have a detrimental effect on performance," says McConnell. She suggests two to ensure that you are controlling your breathing. Firstly, learn how to breathe rhythmically during movement (more of that in a moment). And secondly, improve your inspiratory (inhalation) muscle function.

A mixed bag, mostly useful when VC-talk filter engaged.

Somehow missed this in the official docs.

The future of Node.js REST development

Termshows are purely text based. This makes them ideal for demoing instructions (as the user can copy-paste), making fail-safe "live-coding" sessions (plain text is very scalable), and sharing all your l33t terminal hacks.

Via infovore.

Free plan looks like it could be handy for side project development, but then it gets fairly expensive fairly quickly.

Nasty.

Via russelldavies.

These kinds of films aren’t entertaining anymore; they’re offensive. Yet they sit side-by-side among countless clones, bullets in the chamber, cogs in wheels in the monstrous Movie Marketing machine — operating within the supercolossal Entertainment Industry — which only cares about money and formula and self-protection. No wonder the industry is dying. For our parts, as moviegoers, we are partly culpable for legitimizing these projects, in which innovation, risk, and surprise are next to nil, by continuing to buy their tickets.

I'll probably watch it anyway.

One of my oldest friends is a consultant psychiatrist who I've actually seen practising in just this way, with preternatural flair and compassion.

In both their cases, however, I feel about them rather the way I do about the last archbishop of Canterbury: I consider Rowan Williams to be a wise and spiritual man mostly despite rather than because of his Christianity; and I think many psychiatrists are good healers mostly despite rather than because of the medical ideology of mental illness to which they subscribe.

A bit more about why I remain very optimistic about @foursquare, and what the company needs to do going forward: http://t.co/SOJo5g6Si6

Via blech.

Make continuous deployment safe by comparing before and after webpage screenshots for each release.

Watches you browse, takes screenshots, tells you when they change.

Via ttscoff.

Gentrification has adopted an exaggerated and accelerated form in the capital, hurting communities from Brixton to Belgravia.

So, this is where we are today – and my reference architecture is mongodb for the database server, node/express as the web/application server, AngularJS on the client side (along with Bootstrap for styling). I find that this architecture allows me to build web services really quickly that can have a client interface build fast using AngularJS, and then one can start development of mobile apps against the service using PhoneGap or native mobile development tools.

Via russelldavies.

Some good discussion on the "why bother" aspect.

There are alternatives to Google Authenticator? Good stuff.

An interactive 3D visualization of the stellar neighborhood, including over 100,000 nearby stars. Created for the Google Chrome web browser.