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A better tool for cubic-bezier() easing

Via monospaced.

The spectre of competition means that at work, school, everywhere we think we have to work/study/run as fast as we possibly can, all the time. But, says Bjergegaard, much of that is counterproductive. "We get tired, we don't work as well under constant stress. We don't always need to be there anyway – many of my best ideas have come when I'm running, or on holiday."

This book provides a new way of thinking about designing digital products: as a series of microinteractions that are essential to bringing personality and delight to applications and devices.

Via ttscoff.

Via monospaced.

Via monospaced.

Via ttscoff.

Python interface to Amazon Web Services

An open-source engine which automates the deployment of applications as highly portable, self-sufficient containers.

Quickly and painlessly check your web links with Ruby, Nokogiri and Anemone

A framework for easily creating beautiful presentations using HTML. Comes with a broad range of features including nested slides, markdown contents, PDF export, speaker notes and a JavaScript API. It's best viewed in a browser with support for CSS 3D transforms but fallbacks are available to make sure your presentation can still be viewed elsewhere.

fabtools includes useful functions to help you write your Fabric files.

Includes Vagrant helpers, yay.

2 minutes into using @markedapp and already wish I'd had for last year's doc writing marathon with @bas. markedapp.com

An image (SD-card) to turn the Raspberry Pi into an easy to use MusicBox with Spotify playback and AirTunes streaming

A quick overview of [BBC News] strategy for delivering images into a responsive web page.

With some archival photography, a good eye for a camera angle and some solid Photoshopping, Redditor Drewsta1987 created these excellent then-and-now images of the Highbury and Newington Green area.

Web developers don’t have much control over connection speeds and browser optimizations, but they can control the size of their pages. Unfortunately, page weight continues to increase.

Ho hum.

The idea is our editor, tools etc will all live on a virtual machine, in which we’ll also setup our application environment - databases, services etc. We can then develop features using the precise environment we have in production, reusing the production scripts.

Another data point. Not sure I agree with editing in the VM, though.

The service line is the part that scares advertising agencies. It’s associated with building products, which potentially puts them in competition with their clients who, after all, are the ones who actually make things. Those services can create deeper, more meaningful experiences that solve different needs and produce a different kind of brand relationship. It’s also, because of that organisational drag, horrendously difficult.

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Product people know this. Startup people know this. Most advertising people do not, as yet, know this.

A [work-in-progress] self-hosted, anti-social RSS reader.

I have a new idea on how we might be able to define responsive image breakpoints that is based on a performance budget. Before I begin, I should note that a lot of this is a thought experiment. I don’t yet know how practical this approach would be.

Sob.

For a while I've been looking for a more fluid toolkit for rapidly developing and iterating static sites. I have three use cases in mind: client html mockups with rapid iterations or slight variations, maintaining the static client sites that I have in the stable, and hacking on my own site. In each of these cases, dealing with databases, CMSs, versioning, or directories of HTML files was either too heavy, too slow, or both.