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joshua : Polymaps
Simon Willison : Polymaps - Polymaps. Absurdly hot: “a JavaScript library for image- and vector-tiled maps using SVG”. It can pull in image tiles from sources such as OpenStreetMap, then overlay SVG paths specified using GeoJSON. The demos make use of GeoJSON tiles for US stat
nelson : Polymaps - Overlay vector data on tile based maps on web pages.
Andy Baio : Polymaps - Stamen and SimpleGeo's JS library for gorgeous vector visualizations on map tiles [via]
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cobra libre : "Hallowed Ground" - "Look at the photos. This neighborhood is not hallowed. The people who live and work here are not obsessed with 9/11. The blocks around Ground Zero are like every other hard-working neighborhood in New York, where Muslims are just another thread of the ci #
Eric Meyer : "Hallowed Ground" - Fits right in with my perception of NYC and what a difference a couple of blocks can make. [via John] [via]
Rod Begbie : "Hallowed Ground" - "A few photos of stuff the same distance from the World Trade Center as the 'Ground Zero Mosque'" The whole thing would be funny if it wasn't so frustratingly based on unashamed bigotry. [via] #
Andy Baio : Hallowed Ground - photos of stuff the same distance from the WTC as the "Ground Zero Mosque" [via]
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Andy Baio : Chad Dickerson on scaling startups - specifically, how to scale an engineering-driven culture
philgyford : Scaling startups - Chad Dickerson on how to grow while maintaining a startup culture. Hire well, IRC, deploy very frequently, experiment, love engineers, external transparency, embrace failure. (via Waxy)
Rod Begbie : Scaling startups - Lots of great points to think about when building a tech startup. Not enough founders consider company culture early enough. [via] #
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joshua : fake optical illusions
Andy Baio : Optical Illusion Illusions - Reddit user photoshops the illusions into popular optical illusions
Rod Begbie : Illusion Illusions - a set on Flickr - Cruel and brilliant. Optical illusions edited so they actually *do* display the behaviour commonly associated with the illusion. [via] #
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deusx : kanaka's noVNC at master - GitHub - "VNC client using HTML5 (Web Sockets, Canvas) with encryption (wss://) support"
Rod Begbie : noVNC - Browser VNC client, implemented plugin-free in JavaScript using HTML5 websockets and canvas. I love this future. [via] #
Jeremy Zawodny : kanaka's noVNC at master - GitHub - kanaka's noVNC at master - GitHub: that is insane... VNC in HTML5 (WebSockets and Canvas)
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Linkorama : Why I Sold Zappos - Tony Hsieh built his online shoe retailer into an e-commerce powerhouse. But with credit tightening and investors eyeing the exits, Hsieh was forced to ask: Was selling Zappos really the only way to save it?
nelson : Why I sold Zappos - Detailed piece by Hsieh about managing a company with a specific cultural goal
Rod Begbie : Why I Sold Zappos - Tony Hsieh tells his tale. Of course, his humble version is of evil VCs forcing the hand of the handsome founder with an amazing (and still unproven) vision. Reminds me of Philip Greenspun's one-sided tales of ArsDigita post collapse. Second bubble, sa #
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Simon Willison : Understanding node.js - Understanding node.js. A king providing orders to his army of servants is a much better analogy than my hyperactive squid.
Jeremy Zawodny : Understanding node.js - Understanding node.js: a good analogy
nelson : Understanding node.js - Good explanation of the interesting server-side javascript thing
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nelson : xkcd color survey - Funny and useful all at once
Andy Baio : xkcd's Color Survey Results - most popular colors unique to women, "dusty teal" and "blush pink"; for men, "penis" and "gay"
Simon Willison : Color Survey Results - Color Survey Results. XKCD asked anonymous netizens to provide names for random colours. The results (collated from 222,500 user sessions that named over 5 million colours) are fascinating.
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Andy Baio : Apple //t, Twitter display for the Apple II - everyone's favorite tweeting cat makes a cameo at 1:46 in the video [via]
nelson : Apple //t - Great hack project, displaying Twitter messages on an old Apple //e
Rod Begbie : Apple //t - Top notch hack -- Wiring up an Apple //e to display messages (and avatars) from Twitter. Tempts me to break out a ZX Spectrum emulator… [via] #
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Jeremy Zawodny : Redis tutorial, April 2010 - by Simon Willison - Redis tutorial, April 2010 - by Simon Willison: Simon put together an excellent tutorial on Redis
Rod Begbie : Redis tutorial, April 2010 - by Simon Willison - A detailed dig into redis. I'd been meaning to look at Redis for a while, and this was a great kickstart. [via] #
bmilleare : Redis tutorial, April 2010 - The excellent Redis tutorial as given by Simon Willison at NoSQL Europe in April 2010.
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nelson : HTML game toolkit - Akihabara, Javascript libraries for sprites, animations, pathing, etc
Andy Baio : Akihabara, open-source HTML5 pixel game toolkit - the demos are an impressive range of genres and all work on iPad/iPhone
Eric Meyer : Akihabara - The temptation to remake Seven Cities of Gold is strong. So very, very strong. [via John] [via]
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Simon Willison : Flash CS5 will export to HTML5 Canvas - Flash CS5 will export to HTML5 Canvas. This looks pretty awesome—Illustrator CS5 and Flash CS5 can export to a new “FXG? format, and Adobe are providing a JavaScript library to load that format via Ajax and render the contents (including Flash ani
Andy Baio : Flash CS5 to support limited HTML5 canvas export - outputs in Adobe's SVG-like FXG format, with a JS library to display in a canvas element [via]
Greg Storey : Flash CS5 will export to HTML5 Canvas. - Is this enough to save Flash? #
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Matthew M. Boedicker : Creepy Robots
joshua : Creepy Robots - where i've been keeping my creepy robot videos
Andy Baio : Creepy Robots - "It's only a matter of time before one of these kills somebody."
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deusx : uWSGI - "uWSGI is a fast (pure C), self-healing, developer-friendly WSGI server, aimed for professional python webapps deployment and development. Over time it has evolved in a complete stack for networked/clustered python applications, implementing message/
Matthew M. Boedicker : uWSGI
joshua : uWSGI
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nelson : Future of social gaming - Soren Johnson's musings on the impact Facebook has had on traditional game developers
Andy Baio : Soren Johnson's "Fear and Loathing in Farmville," notes from GDC 2010 - best summary of the turmoil social gaming's causing in the gaming industry [via]
Simon Willison : Fear and Loathing in Farmville - Fear and Loathing in Farmville. “At multiple times during the conference, [Daniel] James expressed his serious ethical qualms over the path social gaming was laying for the industry. So many of the methods for making money are thinly-veiled scams that
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joshua : The MessagePack Project - MessagePack is a binary-based efficient object serialization library. It enables to exchange structured objects between many languages like JSON. But unlike JSON, it is very fast and small.
Jeremy Zawodny : The MessagePack Project - The MessagePack Project: Extremely efficient object serialization library. It's like JSON, but very fast and small.
Simon Willison : The MessagePack Project - The MessagePack Project. A cross-language efficient binary-based serialization library—“It’s like JSON, but very fast and small?. Claims to outperform protocol buffers for at least some benchmarks.
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Simon Willison : Unit Testing Achievements - Unit Testing Achievements. A plugin for Python’s nose test runner that adds achievements—“Night Shift: Make a failing suite pass between 12am and 5am.?
Rod Begbie : Nose Achievements - Fabulous! Xbox-style achievements for your Python unit tests. "Heisenbug: Make a passing suite fail without changing anything." [via] #
Andy Baio : Unit Testing Achievements - I'm still waiting for a ticket tracker with game mechanics [via]
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Rod Begbie : Sushi Cat - Cute fun flashgame. Sort of Peggle meets Plinko, with a sushi-eating cat. [via] #
Andy Baio : Sushi Cat - damn you, Cal [via]
nelson : Sushi cat - Silly pachinko-like game featuring sushi-eating longcat
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Andy Baio : Jesse Schell's DICE talk about Facebook, reality, and the future of pervasive gaming - from the author of The Art of Game Design [via]
Milo Vermeulen : DICE 2010 Video: Jesse Schnell dives into a world of game development which will emerge from the popular "Facebook Games" era - DICE 2010 Video: Jesse Schnell dives into a world of game development which will emerge from the popular "Facebook Games" era [via]
WillPate : DICE 2010: "Design Outside the Box" Presentation Videos
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nelson : Older women - OKCupid drops another incredible statistics-packed blog post about their dating population
Andy Baio : OK Cupid covers the effects of age on dating and attractiveness - as always, some incredible dataporn mined from their community [via]
Simon Willison : The Case For An Older Woman - The Case For An Older Woman. OK Cupid’s fascinating statistics blog uses cleverly plotted aggregate data from the dating site to illustrate the difference in age tastes between the genders (men try to date younger women) and show why that might not be
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nelson : MicroSD problems - One of the world's most famous reverse engineering hackers delves deep into 2GB flash cards
Andy Baio : Bunnie Huang's forensic research into irregular MicroSD cards - "Kingston is revealed as simply a vendor that re-marks other people's chips in its own packaging" [via]
Milo Vermeulen : On MicroSD Problems - interesting forensic investigation by Chumby hardware developer Bunnie [via]
# copy7 month ago
Simon Willison : Django Advent - Django Advent. I can’t believe I haven’t linked to this already—Django Advent is “a series of articles about upcoming releases of the Django web framework?. Seven have been posted so far, covering topics from 1.2 including multi-db, messages,
joshua : Django Advent
philgyford : Django Advent - Finally finished reading this. Are there other sites that have this kind of writing about Django regularly?
# copy7 month ago
Simon Willison : Plupload - Plupload. Fantastic new open source project from the team behind TinyMCE. Plupload offers a cross-browser JavaScript File uploading API that handles multiple file uploads, client-side progress meters, type filtering and even client-side image resizing a [via]
Jeremy Zawodny : Plupload - A tool for uploading files using Flash, Silverlight, Google Gears, HTML5 or Browserplus - Plupload - A tool for uploading files using Flash, Silverlight, Google Gears, HTML5 or Browserplus: finally what appears to be a good solution to photo uploads from the browser!
philgyford : Plupload - A tool for uploading files using Flash, Silverlight, Google Gears, HTML5 or Browserplus - From the developers of TmyMCE. (via Simon Willison)
# copy7 month ago
Andy Baio : Anil Dash on geek attention on the iPad vs. tonight's State of the Union - a little perspective
Anil : Free Publicity: Who do we help? - I'm not a Democrat; I don't much care about the scorekeeping of who has more seats in any given chamber of Congress. But I do think there are things that need fixing in this country, and one of the most important is acknowledging when things are going the
Jeremy Zawodny : Free Publicity: Who do we help? - Free Publicity: Who do we help?: my personal reckoning has just shown me that a bunch of libertarian-leaning geeks in Silicon Valley who refuse to engage with government and civic society at all are never going to make an impact on most of the things that
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wearehugh : Jilion - SublimeVideo
Simon Willison : SublimeVideo - HTML5 Video Player - SublimeVideo—HTML5 Video Player. Still a fair way to go (no Firefox support yet, and they plan to add a Flash fallback for IE) but in Safari this is pretty extraordinary. Smooth video, beautiful UI, full window mode and full screen mode in the latest
philgyford : Jilion - SublimeVideo - That lovely HTML5 video player which I keep seeing and then forgetting the URL of.
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