Dumplings
Strong
Trishaws
Winning is the worst thing that can happen in Vegas by David of 37signals
The road to programming hell is paved with “best practices” applied too early. Very few abstractions, extractions, or architectures are inherently bad (although I’ll contend that a few are). But most of them are downright evil if applied before they’re called for.
To take the scare quotes of flexibility, you have to be willing to write no code at all. The “Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work” and “You’re Just Not Going To Need It” are both sayings to help you get there.
Scooter panning
Frogs for consumption
Twin Towers
Auf der Hut vor Moskitos
Silverleaf Monkey.
Got really close to two of them at Bako National Park. Was absolutely fascinating to watch. Here’s the whole set.
Geek Salad
Kids at a longhouse in Kuching, Borneo.
Beating the Anxiety of Online Reading
How do you deal with this? It’s a matter of letting go, and realizing you can’t ever, ever possibly read 1% of the good stuff that’s out there. It’s absolutely impossible. And so you must let go, or the anxiety will never end.
I need to work on this myself.
Subcompact Publishing — by Craig Mod
I propose Subcompact Publishing tools and editorial ethos begin (but not end) with the following qualities:
Small issue sizes (3-7 articles / issue) Small file sizes Digital-aware subscription prices Fluid publishing schedule Scroll (don’t paginate) Clear navigation HTML(ish) based Touching the open web Many of these qualities play off one another. Let’s look at them in detail.
Don’t miss the follow-up: http://craigmod.com/satellite/subcompact_round_up/
Fraser Speirs - Blog - Teaching Programming on iOS
The basic idea is that we are going to set up an Amazon EC2 instance, SSH into it and edit and execute our code over there. There are several really nice SSH clients for iOS.