October 2011
11 posts
Chris Piascik cartoon: Millionaires in US Congress →
A graph by the wonderful illustrator Chris Piascik.
Oct 22nd
Backbone.js on Rails live audio Q&A chat →
Last Friday, October 14th, we hosted a two hour live Q&A chat for purchasers of our Backbone.js on Rails eBook with co-author Jason Morrison. We invited people who have downloaded the book to…
Oct 22nd
Steve Jobs on Creativity →
“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to…
Oct 21st
Big Drop In Car Crashes Tracks With Blackberry... →
Shared by Buda Wow… The big Blackberry outage is having an unexpected positive side-benefit. During the days the Blackberry service was out, there’s been far fewer traffic accidents. In Dubai,…
Oct 19th
The Cycle Wherein Apple Creates a Product and... →
And the Headline of the Week award goes to Trevor Gilbert. ★
Oct 18th
RIP Jobs →
Steve Jobs memorial at Eaton Centre’s Apple Store.
Oct 14th
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The Last Time I Saw Steve Jobs →
Shared by Buda Cool. One of my favorite stories heard this week. So great. ★
Oct 13th
Less Stuff, More Happiness →
An inspiring Ted Talk by Graham Hill. Something I think we’re all trying to get better at.
Oct 13th
Apple’s 1987 Knowledge Navigator, Only One Month... →
Andy Baio: So, 24 years ago, Apple predicted a complex natural-language voice assistant built into a touchscreen Apple device, and was less than a month off. ★
Oct 12th
Subtle Patterns | Free textures for your next web... →
Oct 11th
"We went into Sean’s bedroom – and there was a kid... →
“We went into Sean’s bedroom – and there was a kid there setting up an Apple computer that Sean had gotten as a present, the Macintosh model. I said that once some man had been calling me a lot…
Oct 10th
September 2011
13 posts
Will Paul Kahan Start Cooking on Big Star's Truck? →
Big Star’s Food Truck Apparently the answer is yes, at least according to Chicago Foodie. The blog quotes Paul Kahan as saying that his team will start cooking on the Big Star food truck…
Sep 30th
Grove announces Bamboo Backs for MacBooks | TUAW -... →
Shared by Buda Damn, these are kind of awesome looking… Grove , a company based in Portland, Oregon, has announced they are expanding their line of bamboo-based goodies for your Apple product….
Sep 28th
Why aren't you building your startup for early... →
It’s time that we all re-read Geoffrey Moore’s book, Crossing the Chasm. Seriously, stop whatever you’re doing right now, download a copy to your kindle, and spend the next…
Sep 26th
20 JavaScript Frameworks Worth Checking Out →
The number of web applications being created and used has grown rapidly since the new millenium. And importantly, so has the sheer complexity of them — specially on the front end. No more…
Sep 25th
You’ve Already Seen This →
You’ve Already Seen This: Unless your entire social circle was under a rock yesterday, you’ve already seen Facebook Timeline. But what’s most interesting to me is seeing the influence of two…
Sep 24th
Watch Wilco Play a Full Concert on the "Late Show... →
In advance of their new LP The Whole Love, which drops September 27 via their self-launched label dBpm, Wilco has dropped by “Late Show With David Letterman” to perform. In addition to…
Sep 22nd
Unobtrusive AJAX with Rails 3.1 →
AJAX with Rails, if you have some experiences with RJS in previous versions of Rails, then you will not see many differences when you implement AJAX in Rails 3.1. One different is you create template…
Sep 19th
Do We Deserve -- or Even Want-- More Jobs? -... →
Well, this is depressing.
Sep 11th
Getting serious about your org chart →
Manu’s funny brilliance aside, this collection of org charts might help you think hard about why your organization is structured the way it is. Is it because it was built when geography…
Sep 9th
Say Something Nice →
This ImprovEverywhere project is *so* New York. Made me smile. (Thank you Bas)
Sep 8th
Just some other awesome CSS3 buttons – Red Team... →
Sep 7th
Wood Type Revival joins Typekit →
We’re delighted to announce that Wood Type Revival – a Kickstarter-backed effort by Matt Braun and Matt Griffin to turn rare, historic wood type into digital fonts – has partnered with Typekit to…
Sep 2nd
Man Finds $150,000 in His Garden →
Missing $150,000 or so? If this story doesn’t inspire you to plant a garden we’re not sure what will: While picking some fresh broccoli from his backyard, a man in McHenry County stumbled upon…
Sep 1st
August 2011
8 posts
Minneapolis? More like Bike-opolis | Grist →
Shared by Buda So awesome… A commitment to bolstering bike-friendliness means that the bigger Twin City now rivals Portland as the country’s best cycling town.
Aug 28th
Time spent using Tupperware →
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Aug 25th
Golden Grid System: A ‘Folding’ Grid for... →
Golden Grid System: A ‘Folding’ Grid for Responsive Design: Joni Korpi, who developed the system: 16 columns sounds a bit much for anything other than huge widescreen monitors. This is where…
Aug 18th
Photos of Pets Shaking Their Heads →
A great gallery of photographer Carli Davidson’s shots of pets caught as they shake their heads. It’s no secret that I’m a dog person, so of course I find these adorable, even the shots that…
Aug 17th
5 Rules for a Creative Culture →
by Ben Chestnut, Founder of Mailchimp 1. Avoid rules. Avoid order. Don’t just embrace chaos, but create a little bit of it. Constant change, from the top-down, keeps people nimble and flexible…
Aug 13th
Understanding JavaScript Function Invocation and... →
Over the years, I’ve seen a lot of confusion about JavaScript function invocation. In particular, a lot of people have complained that the semantics of `this` in function invocations is confusing. In my opinion, a lot of this confusion is cleared up by understanding the core function invocation primitive, and then looking at all other ways of invoking a function as sugar on top of that primitive....
Aug 12th
Apple Closes as the Most Valuable Company in the... →
Shared by Buda Frickin nuts…who would have ever thought? Apple passed ExxonMobil as the most-valuable publicly traded company several times yesterday, but ExxonMobil ended the day ahead of…
Aug 11th
State Actively Trying to Ruin Ice Cream →
Shared by Buda seriously, do lawmakers never actually think about this shit? gah. silly. Banned by the state. You know what sucks more than the city’s laws against food trucks: the city’s shocking…
Aug 9th
July 2011
27 posts
Page One: Banish Multi-Page Articles →
Excellent Safari and Chrome extension from Josh Clark: I despise multi-page articles with the heat of a million suns. The Page One extension for Safari and Chrome fixes them,…
Jul 29th
Code review: Ruby and Rails idioms →
We often augment an existing Rails team or help build a Rails team on behalf of our clients. In the process, we do feature branch code reviews. Among other reasons, we do them to get everyone…
Jul 29th
CSS PERFORMANCE →
This is an awesome presentation.
Jul 28th
TidBITS’s Favorite Hidden Features in Mac OS X... →
Nice list of Lion details. ★
Jul 27th
Check out Big Star's New Yellow Food Truck →
The bright yellow truck should hopefully be open soon. Last month Paul Kahan sent out a few hints about a potential food truck for Big Star. The idea of Kahan-supported mobile eatery was…
Jul 26th
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People who work from home are more satisfied with... →
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Jul 24th
Web Typography for the Lonely →
Web typography for the Lonely aims to excite designers about the possibilities of cutting-edge web standards and javascript through beautiful and inspiring typographic explorations.
Jul 23rd
Marshall McLuhan Speaks — Communication via the... →
Jul 22nd
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Jul 22nd
I apologize in advance for this Google+ joke →
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Jul 21st
Previously Unpublished Beatles Photographs →
Photographer Mike Mitchell photographed The Beatles during their first visits to the United States in 1964 when he was just eighteen years old, and then left the images in his basement for decades….
Jul 16th
Sachin Teng →
Some great illustrations by Sachin Teng. Really digging the color palettes and mix of geometric/organic shapes.
Jul 16th
Content Choreography | Trent Walton →
damn, this is nice looking.
Jul 15th
Welcome to BugHerd - The world's simplest bug... →
Wow, this is pretty slick.
Jul 14th
PHOTO: I love this about Kent Beck’s approach… →
I love this about Kent Beck’s approach. Each step in a design removes uncertainty. Each step is a question of how to learn something you didn’t know before in order to move forward. That’s a…
Jul 12th
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Jul 12th
Video: Director Jon Favreau Interviews Steven... →
Cool stuff.
Jul 12th
Steampunk: Wheels turning on Steampunk culture -... →
Shared by Buda Nice! The growing steampunk community revels in a lifestyle steeped in antiquarian aesthetics and inventive machinery.
Jul 11th