August 2011
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Sublime Text 2 Tips and Tricks →
Jeffrey Way:
I consider Sublime Text 2 to be the spiritual successor to TextMate – particularly when the likelihood of TextMate 2 coming to fruition becomes bleaker and bleaker. When Duke Nukem Forever is released before TextMate 2, you know you’re in trouble! But that’s okay, because Sublime Text 2 is one of the fastest and most incredible editors to come out in a long time! I’ll show you my...
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Joao Silva: ‘This Is What I Do. This Is All That I... →
From an adapted version of Silva’s speech at the Bronx Documentary Center Aug. 2, posted on the Times’ Lens blog:
I heard the mechanic click. I knew: this is not good. And I found myself lying face-down on the ground, engulfed in a cloud of dust, with the very clear knowledge that this has just happened and this is not good. I could see my legs were gone, and everybody around me...
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Macho Programming →
Stijn Debrouwere:
I have to admit, even for a zen-like chap such as me, it’s still quite the mental effort to repress knee-jerk reactions about the tools and programming languages other people use. Perl is for dinosaurs, Ruby for hipsters, Haskell is useless outside of academia, C is for masochists, C# for corporate drones. Computer programmers have probably been waging these kinds of petty...
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Map of Today's East Coast Earthquake Available on... →
The indecently smart folks at Development Seed put together a beautiful map of today’s seismic event along with a quick write-up of the process:
This afternoon at 1:51 pm our office started shaking, pretty strongly. And then we all ran outside. Turns out a 5.9 earthquake hit Northern, VA, with its epicenter just northwest of Richmond, and we definitely felt it here in Washington,...
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Tumblr Engineering: Building a Faster Lightbox →
Don’t miss this great write-up of the new photoset functionality Tumblr recently rolled out:
Tumblr’s new Photoset feature was hinged on being able to quickly display high-res images in an interactive lightbox slideshow. You can check out an example with my dog. After solidifying the design, we spent a couple days doing everything we could to improve the real and perceived responsiveness....
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“By overemphasizing a truth, you can create a lie.”
– Deroy Peraza, Hyperakt
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Twitter Bootstrap →
Fresh out of the oven from Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton, Twitter Bootstrap could significantly cut the lead time required when spinning up your next web app. The form elements and notifications are particularly gorgeous.
From Mark’s post on Twitter’s dev blog:
In the earlier days of Twitter, engineers used almost any library they were familiar with to meet front-end requirements....
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Skin Your Chrome Inspector →
It’s Christmas in August for all you Chrome-loving web devs:
Ever want to change the look of your Google Chrome Web Inspector? I personally love being able to customize the “theme” or “brush” of my favorite IDE and my Web Inspector is no different. If you’ve ever done some snooping around Google Chrome’s Web Inspector you may have noticed that it’s made of straight HTML + CSS +...
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“We’re not ignorant because we’ve consumed too little information...”
– Clay Johnson
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“We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.”
– François de La Rochefoucald (via seanjohnson)
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Flat, simple icons for interface design →
Meagan Fisher posted a great roundup of flat icons today, including the awesome Glyphish and Icon Sweets packages that I’ve used in multiple projects over the last few years. Highly recommended!
I can’t overstate the value of a good flat, sharp, detailed icon. You can style it any way you please, use it in a variety of projects, and communicate difficult interface concepts in a 16 pixel...
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News Redux
Web designer Andy Rutledge tackled a section front from NYTimes.com for his series of “redux” redesign exercises. The Internet had some thoughts about this.
[View the story “News Redux” on Storify]
