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iA Writer: Follow the Cursor on Vimeo
RT @iA: Follow the Cursor:
(404) https://vimeo.com/18777877
Every bit as good as the original(?) @iA Writer trailer, which introduced me to The Books... Gorgeous work!
A Dummy’s Guide to Mapping Daesh
ICYMI "A Dummy's Guide to Mapping Daesh" contains some good info — by @Dietoff. cc: @Iyad_ElBaghdadi @JoesiProkopetz
Modern Educayshun - YouTube
RT @levelsio: Genius
Untitled (https://designcode.io/sketch-mastering)
RT @beep: Needed to get a bit of work done this morning, but @jasonsantamaria sent me this master list of Sketch tips and welp
Making sense of atomic design: molecules and organisms
RT @craftui: How exactly do you distinguish between molecules and organisms? Some thoughts after a year of using Atomic Design
Russia's False Narrative in Syria: December 1, 2015 | Institute for the Study of War
RT @TheStudyofWar: Myth 2: #Russia airstrikes target terrorist groups. NO: Fake Russia maps lie re: locations.
Home - FollowTheMoney.org
@krystynheide @igorvolsky's # is contradicted by data presented by , ,
Influence Explorer
@krystynheide @igorvolsky's # is contradicted by data presented by , ,
OpenSecrets.org: Money in Politics -- See Who's Giving & Who's Getting
@krystynheide @igorvolsky's # is contradicted by data presented by , ,
Grounded: Life on the No Fly List | American Civil Liberties Union
RT @ggreenwald: Dear Democrats: read from the @ACLU about the no-fly list you're now disgustingly championing & trying to expand
Untitled (http://www.cnbc.com/2015/12/03/googles-chromebooks-make-up-half-of-us-classroom-devices.html)
Current (& future) of education is rendered in HTML. Chromebooks now 50%> of US classroom devices via @BenedictEvans
Adapting Ourselves to Adaptive Content | Karen McGrane
Just referred to a speaker as a "PRESTIGIOUS content strategist" during a brief. I love my industry cc @karenmcgrane
Listen to Gaslight Anthem Singer Brian Fallon’s Solo Song ‘A Wonderful Life’ (Exclusive) - Speakeasy - WSJ
My favorite singer/songwriter @theBrianFallon is preparing to release a new (his first) solo record. Beautiful.
Gmail
Lost in the sunny tropic of , I often find myself *really* missing New York City utilitarian,
Sign in - Google Accounts
Lost in the sunny tropic of , I often find myself *really* missing New York City utilitarian,
Derek Sivers on Developing Confidence, Finding Happiness, and Saying “No” to Millions | The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
RT @brainpicker: Two of my favorite men, @sivers and @tferriss, in conversation about confidence, busyness, and having enough
BOOKS | Derek Sivers
One of the more nutritious, huge nuggets of wisdom gleaned during @sivers' and @tferriss' discussion, see for books.
Reality is messy | The Haystack
@VIPickering Relevant:
Zeldman on Web & Interaction Design - Web design news and insights since 1995
RT @zeldman: ⇛ Of Patterns and Power: Web Standards Then & Now–fresh at
Of Patterns and Power: Web Standards Then & Now - Zeldman on Web & Interaction Design
RT @zeldman: ⇛ Of Patterns and Power: Web Standards Then & Now–fresh at
Brian Fallon (The Gaslight Anthem / Horrible Crowes) - "The Blues, Mary" live at Crossroads NJ - YouTube
Beyond excited for @thebrianfallon's Portland show tonight — a welcome respite from a strange & heavy start to 2016.
Redirecting...
Today marks three years since Aaron Swartz's death.
How 26 Tweets Broke My Filter Bubble – Medium
RT @karenmcgrane: One of the best things I’ve done is explicitly seek out different perspectives on Twitter. Read this from @bjmay:
Alrawi, the ISIS encrypted messaging app, does not exist | The Daily Dot
@craigmod @DefenseOne "The myth of the ISIS encrypted messaging app" —
The Leica Q — Craig Mod
RT @craigmod: ☆ The Leica Q — A six month field test:
The Right-Side Column: Just Noise? | iA
Championed by @iA in 2006 (), even is eliminating right column noise:
Google
Championed by @iA in 2006 (), even is eliminating right column noise:
Ego and Altruism: Lessons F... on Livestream
The brilliant Leila Janah on Ego and Altruism —
Nokia N9 - Fan Bingbing Unfollow - YouTube
@dcurtis I'm reminded of Nokia's 2011 "Unfollow" advertisement for the wonderful N9 —
Pattern Lab: Taking Our Workflow from a Linear to Parallel Process | Phase2 Technology
RT @brad_frost: Absolutely love these insights from @EvanLovely about how Pattern Lab has improved @phase2's workflow!
(404) http://IndependentMedia.com
Will it survive atrophy longer than Vox dot com? Will its investors be less adverse to sarcasm than Bloomberg? ...
Untitled (http://independentmedia.com/js/horse.js)
It's 2016. Horse.js is the next trend.
OpenDevShop: Drupal Cloud Hosting & Testing Platform
@jonpugh You've probably noticed by now, but just in case — @OpenDevShop's domain () seems to have expired :o
Is group chat making you sweat?
Basecamp on Slack:
xkcd: Compiling
Running npm install is the new "my code's compiling".
LukeW | Developing Design Principles
Developing Design Principles by Luke Wroblewski
Frank Chimero - Writing
Reading Frank Chimero’s stuff for the first time in a long time. Recommended.
Frank Chimero - Jettison the Rest
“It’s best to identify and do what you’re required and able, then jettison the rest.”
How the iPad Pro Changed My Illustrating Career
This is exactly how I feel about the Mac SE. And if I could have written Steve Jobs… and he’d written back :O
Frank Chimero - From the Porch to the Street
Whenever I find myself wondering why this place got so terrible and how to put the good back in it, I come back to..
GitHub - romannurik/MaterialColorsApp: A handy little Mac app that gives you quick access to the standard material design color palette.
Downloading Material Colors app (OS X only) :: — Looks nifty.
Highlighting Western Victims While Ignoring Victims of Western Violence
Imbalanced media coverage btwn West victims & West-led violence perpetuates "only others kill innocents" narrative.
Untitled (http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/03/how-the-telegraph-built-its-new-cms-by-focusing-on-simplicity/)
As promised, here’s a screenshot of an awful newspaper CMS; clickthrough to see a better one
(500) https://medium.com/uie-brain-sparks/preparing-organizations-to-become-design-infused-8a0d93b50d36#.5r7ln8rm0
“Good judgement comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgements.”
Design Patterns on CodePen
Well looks I'll be diving into these @CodePen patterns for the next...forever.
Being tired isn’t a badge of honor
“Being tired isn’t a badge of honor.” Amen, @jasonfried! ht @ryanessmaker
Adactio: Journal—A brief history of the World Wide Web by web developers
“The web will be so much better when…” Deep wisdom from @adactio.
Dictionary | iA
As most (all?) things iA does are, iA Dictionary is brilliant.
Layout Demos by Jen Simmons
I redesigned the landing page of . Much better. More will come later, too… #respond16 #AEASEA #aeanash
Explore – One of the greatest tricks the passive person...
"One of the greatest tricks the passive person plays on himself or herself is to say, ‘But look how busy I am.’"
Aegir
@aegirproject It seems that paypal has disabled donating through the link on
Aligning text smartly in CSS
#Ace: Pure CSS method to align text left when it wraps, but centre it when it doesn’t: /by @sharmavijay /v @adactio
Color in Design Systems – EightShapes LLC – Medium
Fantastic article by @nathanacurtis about working with color in design systems:
Do this. Directives - part 1 | Derek Sivers
After many requests, I finally posted "Do this" - Directives - part 1 :
The Future of Enterprise Design Is Consumer-Grade UX | UX Magazine
The future of enterprise design is consumer-grade UX
The smug style in American liberalism - Vox
This piece is long, brutal, and will make you feel uncomfortable. "The smug style in American liberalism"
Advomatic | How do I manage security on my Drupal 6 site? — Advomatic
How to keep your Drupal 6 sites as secure as possible using tools from @mydropwizard:
(404) https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm
“If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought” Orwell nicely cited in
Log In - The New York Times
“If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought” Orwell nicely cited in
Modular Design — Responsive Web Design
Um, yeah, I’ll be listening to this: “Modular Design” by @karenmcgrane and @beep
On Building Component Libraries | Clearleft
I really like how deeply @allmarkedup thinks about pattern libraries: both who they’re for, and how they’re made.
✨Una Kravets' Blog: Musings on Front-End Development and Design✨
I (literally) just finished a new post! 🤘 Setting up an a11y dashboard using pa11y & @digitalocean from 0️⃣ to 💯:
Kaleo - Vor í Vaglaskógi (Official Video) [with English subtitles] - YouTube
Have you seen the video for our new song "Vor í Vaglaskógi"? It's a traditional love poem >
farmOS.org
@janchip I’m not sure what Connected Farming is but… Perhaps of interest: — Drupal means great multilingual support.
Untitled (https://www.drupal.org/node/2721129)
Excited about the Workflow initiative announced during #DriesNote? Check out the plan at #DrupalCon #Drupal
(400) http://Instagram.com
Imagine the vitriol if Instagram shipped the logo as their new app icon. Why the bifurcation
Archiving Our Online Communities – Medium
We’re closing down @sayhi on September 1, 2016, but we’re making a 2"×2" nickel “book” printed with the entire site:
Iceberg Tweeting – The Message – Medium
Twitter (finally!) doing a few of the things I wrote about two years ago:
You Can’t Have Your Lunch and Eat it Too – Medium
“Be a part of the city.” — @davepell
How The Gun Works – Bug-A-Salt
Noted: bug-a-salt
Tramuntana | Hawk Moon Records
Tramuntana 'a sublime modern classical record'. Listen:
Autofill: What web devs should know, but don’t - Cloud Four
Autofill: What web devs should know, but don’t. Everything I’ve learned about autofill collected. Hope it helps!
The Power Grid (@the_power_grid) • Instagram photos and videos
Strangely meditative: Nicely done @marc_dacosta
Yoyo Light – Andrew Neyer
Ordered a Yoyo light for @cushionapp HQ. I ❤️ all of Andrew Neyer’s lights:
How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist – The Startup – Medium
How technology hijacks people’s minds: Very happy to see @tristanharris ideas getting out there. Deeply important.
Track errors with modern exception logging for JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Java, and Node.js
I ❤️ @getsentry so much.
12 Things I Noticed While Reading Every Short Story Published in 2014–15
"Literary magazines are not withering; they are flourishing." by @lucekel
Considerations in Component Design - Snook.ca
Considerations in Component Design
Fraudulent claims made by IBM about Watson and AI | Roger Schank
Fraudulent claims made by IBM about Watson and AI—Roger Schank: “IBM is simply lying now and they need to stop.”
Off Assignment
Off Assignment is live and real:
Untitled (https://www.drupal.org/project/stage_file_proxy)
This module is amazing! No need to rsync content files for local development. #drupal #development
Provide custom PHP and Nginx builds as Debian packages · Issue #955 · omega8cc/boa · GitHub
#BOA installation and upgrade should be lightning fast, soon! -- #Aegir #Drupal
Peak Minimalism | iA
Peak Minimalism:
BOA-3.1.0 Full Edition | Aegir Drupal Hosting on Steroids
#BOA-3.1.0 released -- with @LetsEncrypt, PHP versions per #Drupal site, #PHP 7.0.7 and more. Enjoy! #Aegir
Responsive Product Comparison Tables - daverupert.com
Responsive Product Comparison Tables by @davatron5000
June/July Shipping – SDR Traveller
The team is heading to the Pamirs. For delivery in June, please order in the next 24 hours
How the Syrian revolt went so horribly, tragically wrong - The Washington Post
Barry was my housemate in Al-Bab. Listen to him here: How the Syrian revolt went so horribly, tragically wrong
Does each click of attention cost a bit of ourselves? | Aeon Essays
The Attention Economy << imho we won’t pay to consume, but to recall past consumption, since this is its true value
Thiel vs Gawker: Why a Defensive Media is the Real Threat to Free Speech | Quillette
Thiel vs Gawker: Why a Defensive Media is the Real Threat to Free Speech | Quillette
The Facebook-Loving Farmers of Myanmar - The Atlantic
The Facebook-Loving Farmers of Myanmar by @craigmod, was part of the foundational research
Elon Musk | Full interview | Code Conference 2016 - YouTube
Watch this — Elon Musk’s latest high-level interview —
Declarative Design Tools | Jon Gold
Interesting approach to testing out ideas. Intrigued to see where you take this @jongold
Instagram to third-party developers: drop dead - Zeldman on Web & Interaction Design
♛ Instagram to third-party developers: drop dead
Untitled (http://Roam.co)
@andybudd ?
Coming out 2.0
From the "TMI about my personal life" file. here's Coming Out 2.0: #pridemonth
Untitled (https://www.fastcodesign.com/3054927/the-big-idea/microsofts-inspiring-bet-on-a-radical-new-type-of-design-thinking)
“Disability is an engine of innovation.”—Microsoft
Promoting a Design System Across Your Products · An A List Apart Article
Promoting a Design System Across Your Products – advice on getting started with eterprise systems, by @nathanacurtis
Reweaving the web | The Economist
Yet, there's true potential in a fully decentralized, encrypted web:
Pattern – Ford’s Sensorium – Medium
“Pattern” by Paul Ford
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