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Primers | Math ∩ Programming
If you're a programmer and wish you knew more mathematics, look at Jeremy Kun primers.
maths  science  programming  education  resource  from twitter_favs
13 days ago
Keita's Quick Ideas
200 "Quick Ideas" Keita Takahashi produced for the MMO Glitch. Inspirational.
inspiration  design  game  mmo  glitch 
18 days ago
Google Content Experiments
Spilt testing framework in Google Analytics.
abtesting  testing  research  data 
20 days ago
積ん読 - Wiktionary
I have a new favourite word. Tsundoku - the act of leaving a book unread after buying it:
word  language  from twitter
6 weeks ago
Smashed celeriac
Somewhere between mashed and whole.
celeriac  food  cooking  recipe  vegetarian 
6 weeks ago
A VC: Mobile App Deep Linking
. nails why deep-linking in ecommerce matters so much. Native converts many times higher than mobile web
from twitter_favs
6 weeks ago
Superhero.js
"Creating, testing and maintaining a large JavaScript code base is not easy — especially since great resources on how to do this are hard to find. This page is a collection of the best articles, videos and presentations we've found on the topic."
javascript  programming  bestpractise 
8 weeks ago
Gource
Gource is a software version control visualization tool.
versioncontrol  visualisation 
9 weeks ago
Litely Photo Presets
12 presets for Aperture based on the look of old film.
photography  aperture  presets  tobuy 
9 weeks ago
Government Service Design Manual
The digital by default service standard, guidance and tools for building world-class digital services.
govuk  government  gds  agile  process  webdesign  webdevelopment  bestpractice 
9 weeks ago
PHP: The Right Way
"An easy-to-read, quick reference for PHP best practices, accepted coding standards, and links to authoritative tutorials around the Web."
php  guide  programming  reference  bestpractice  webdevelopment  scripting 
9 weeks ago
Stop Using Small Font Sizes
TL;DR: 16px minimum font-size for body text, 1.5em line-height for said text; max width should be 60-80 characters == 27-35em.
webdesign  fonts  typography  userexperience  userinterface  accessibility 
9 weeks ago
We’re not ‘appy. Not ‘appy at all.
Tom Loosemore at GDS on why the core service is web first and apps are the exception.
responsivedesign  mobileweb  webdesign  webdevelopment  bestpractice  gds 
10 weeks ago
matchboxpinhole.com
Make a pinhole camera from a matchbox
camera  howto  photography  pinhole  tutorial 
10 weeks ago
Providing responsive images with Drupal
Using the Adaptive Image and Adaptive Image Styles modules.
drupal  tutorial  webdevelopment  responsivedesign  webdesign 
10 weeks ago
Contrast Ratio tool
Easily calculate color contrast ratios. A brilliantly simple tool.
accessibility  webdevelopment  userinterface  userexperience 
10 weeks ago
Git Magic
Nice introduction and explanation into git. Starts of with how to achieve certain results, and then offers a peak under the hood as to what's actually happening.
git  development  webdevelopment  versioncontrol  reference  tutorial 
10 weeks ago
Publications and resources · Sense about Science
Easy to digest booklets on science and science thinking.
science  education  learning  rationalism 
11 weeks ago
How to build a news app that never goes down and costs you practically nothing
The most salient point for me "Build for use. Refactor for reuse". Sometimes you have to build up technical debt to be able to deploy quickly.
webdevelopment  deployment  sysadmin  ec2  news  s3  python 
11 weeks ago
Overnight, No-Cook Refrigerator Oatmeal
A very clever way of doing a summer version of oatmeal/porridge overnight in a fridge.
breakfast  food  recipe  health 
11 weeks ago
lllocal
First version of a local music search engine via and his beard
music  local  social  entertainment  from twitter
12 weeks ago
Behat — BDD for PHP
A php framework for behaviour driven testing.
framework  php  testing  webdevelopment 
12 weeks ago
jisaacks/GitGutter · GitHub
GitGutter, displays gitt diff status in the Sublime Text gutter. This. Is. Great. /via
webdevelopment  versioncontrol  git  software  editing  from twitter
february 2013
The Inconvenient Truth About SEO
Design for users, not search engines. Invest time in producing content that people want to read, want to link to. This is a long term thing.
content  contentstrategy  seo  userexperience  wdcsintranet 
february 2013
Password policy module
Provides a way to specify a certain level of password complexity for user passwords on a system by defining a password policy
drupal  security  password 
february 2013
Big Trouble in Little Content: Planning for Reusable Microcopy
Lullabot's Jeff Eaton on how to wrap your head round writing those tiny pieces of customer facing copy.
content  contentstrategy  copywriting  userinterface 
february 2013
CSS floats explained
Bookmark this if you don't know much about floats.
css  floats  webdesign  webdevelopment  from twitter_favs
february 2013
The Unsettling Beauty of Lethal Viruses
Glass recreations of viruses and bacteria at 1,000,000 times their original size.
art  sculpture  science  medicine  from twitter
february 2013
Supercook: recipe search by ingredients you have at home
Crawls recipes on the web and shows you the ones you can make, using the ingredients you currently have at home.
cooking  food  recipe  search 
february 2013
38 Portraits In An Hour
Laura's tips for taking great portraits.
photography  photographer  tips 
february 2013
One volcano, two volcano, three volcano, four! | MetaFilter
Film crew produces 360 degree panorama of 4 volcanoes erupting simultaneously in Kamchatka: /via
from twitter
february 2013
Research/data to prove or disprove the effectiveness of homepage carousels
E-Commerce: Is there any research/data to prove or disprove the effectiveness of homepage slideshows (carousels) on an e-commerce site?
carousels  userexperience  ecommerce  conversion  research  data 
january 2013
Interplanetary Cessna
Love this. XKCD on flying on Venus: "Your plane would fly pretty well, except it would be on fire the whole time…"
funny  science  space  from twitter
january 2013
How to master your time
"The secret to mastering your time is to systematically focus on importance and suppress urgency"
time  productivity  management  lifehack 
january 2013
Why did infinite scroll fail at Etsy?
"My point is not that infinite scroll is stupid. It may be great on your website. But we should have done a better job of understanding the people using our website" - Valuable lesson from Etsy on when testing goes wrong, and how to avoid it.
testing  abtesting  userexperience  usability  webdesign 
january 2013
The easy pizza recipe
No-knead, no-roll, no-stretch, no-experience-required pan pizza. Step-by-step slideshow walkthrough.
food  cooking  recipe  pizza 
january 2013
Carousels
Some smart stuff from Brad Frost on carousels and why you probably don't need them.
carousels  webdesign  userexperience  webdevelopment  conversion  ecommerce  research  data  from twitter_favs
january 2013
Shenanigans
Time to get out of the house for a bit:
funny  macro  image  reddit 
january 2013
YouTube, Budget Consultations, and how a great blogger made it better still
How Monmouthshire council used You Tube to reach a wider audience for their budget proposals, and how they improved their presentations.
council  budget  government  opendata  data  consultation  gds 
january 2013
FlightMapper
Find flights based on on interactive map.
travel  world  flight 
january 2013
The Star Wars Saga: Introducing Machete Order
The best way to watch the Saga. And as a bonus it completely cuts out episode 1
culture  film  movies  scifi  starwars 
january 2013
How to Redesign Your App Without Pissing Everybody Off
Anil Dash's considered thoughts on changing a UI without starting a riot.
change  community  design  software  business  bestpractice 
january 2013
On false dichotomies and diversity.
Aral Balkan in fine form, on false dichotomies and diversity.
sexism  education  equality  inspiration  from twitter_favs
january 2013
The Original Star Wars Trilogy As Maps
The paths of the stories in map form.
starwars  art  maps 
january 2013
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