2 month ago
43folders : 43 Folders: Time, Attention, and Creative Work | 43 Folders - "I want to help you identify and remove any obstacle that keeps you from making things that you love. And then I want to help you figure out how to make those things even better. That’s pretty much it."
philgyford : 43 Folders: Time, Attention, and Creative Work | 43 Folders - This post and a couple of other recent ones by Merlin Mann about his refocusing have been really inspiring. Great stuff. (via Kottke and Daring Fireball)
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5 month ago
Andy Baio : Features are a one-way street - once your userbase is big enough, you can't pull features without backlash [via]
philgyford : Features are a one-way street - (37signals) - Yes. (via Daring Fireball)
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5 month ago
philgyford : Goings On: Online Only: The New Yorker - Syndey Pollack looked for "the ache" in stories. "It is the ache of having one chance at deep love in a lifetime of shallow loves, and losing it too early." Yes, that's it exactly. (via Daring Fireball)
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5 month ago
Khoi Vinh : Jon Hicks on Expression Engine vs. Textpattern - “The upshot is, that for a lot of client sites, Expression Engine is wonderful (if you can put up with the admin side) — especially sites that need members, forums and all that jazz. The thing is, if a site doesn’t need those thi
philgyford : Expression Engine vs Textpattern / journal / hicksdesign - Thoughtful comparison of both CMSs. (via Daring Fireball)
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Andy Baio : MagCloud, magazines printed on demand from a PDF - Derek Powazek's new venture with HP Labs; upload a PDF and you pick the markup
philgyford : MagCloud - Self-publishing, publish-on-demand magazines. Send a PDF, and they handle printing, delivery, subscriptions, etc. Seems such an obvious idea now Derek Powazek and co have done this. (via Daring Fireball)
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7 month ago
philgyford : David Weiss: Metacognitive Miscalibration - Thinking things are easy when you don't know enough to tell. "There's a great difference between 50 years of experience and 1 years worth of experience repeated 50 times." (via Daring Fireball)
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7 month ago
philgyford : 2.0 Expo 2008: Clay Shirky - Or watch Clay give that "how do they find the time?" talk in person on this video. Worth it; he's an awesome speaker. (via Daring Fireballl)
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7 month ago
factoryjoe : Timeframe - Click-draggable. Range-makeable. A better calendar. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: calendar, javascript
philgyford : Timeframe - Very nice calendar selector widget. (via Daring Fireball)
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philgyford : Asaph - phoboslab.org - Nice-looking and very simple weblog CMS focused on collecting links, photos and quotes, rather than writing stuff yourself. (via Daring Fireball)
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9 month ago
philgyford : Litmus: Pricing and signup - 24 hours passes now available for this Browsercam-like site for testing web pages and emails against different rendering engines. (via Daring Fireball)
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10 month ago
philgyford : HyperPort - HyperCard Export Utility - Handy. I must try this while I still have a Mac that can run Classic. (via Daring Fireball)
factoryjoe : HyperPort - HyperCard Export Utility - As Mac OS X users know, HyperCard requires Classic Mode. But with the arrival of Leopard, Classic Mode is no more, even on non-Intel Macs. If you've worried about losing data you've accumulated in HyperCard stacks by upgrading to Leopard
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11 month ago
Cameron Moll : Chryp - "Chyrp is a blogging engine designed to be very lightweight while retaining functionality. It is driven by PHP and MySQL (with some AJAX thrown in), and has a pimpin' theme and module engine; so you can personalize it however you want."
philgyford : Chyrp - Simple-looking, open-source, decently-featured PHP/MySQL-based weblog engine with built-in support for different kinds of Tumblr-like posts. (via Daring Fireball)
factoryjoe : Chyrp - Chyrp is a blogging engine designed to be very lightweight while retaining functionality. It is driven by PHP and MySQL (with some AJAX thrown in), and has a pimpin’ theme and module engine, so you can personalize it however you want.
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philgyford : Daring Fireball: Yet Another in the Ongoing Series Wherein I Examine a Piece of Supposedly Serious Apple Analysis From a Major Media Outlet and Dissect Its Inaccuracies, Fabrications, and Exaggerations Point-by-Point, Despite the Fact That No Matter How E - Are there sites that pick apart UK press stories with the same rigour and humour that Gruber uses when filleting Appple-oriented nonsense? I want to read them if so.
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14 month ago
philgyford : Orbicule | Undercover | F.A.Q. - Fascinating software and service to help trace your Mac if it's stolen. Even sounds vaguely feasible. (via Daring Fireball)
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15 month ago
Simon Willison : Styling File Inputs with CSS and the DOM - Styling File Inputs with CSS and the DOM. Clever hack to style the un-stylable: set the opacity of the file input to 0, then use a bit of JavaScript to make sure the (now invisible) browse button is always under the mouse.
philgyford : Styling File Inputs with CSS and the DOM // ShaunInman.com - File input fields are stubbornly resistant to beautifying. A new way to make them pretty. (via Daring Fireball)
factoryjoe : Styling File Inputs with CSS and the DOM // ShaunInman.com - File inputs () are the bane of beautiful form design. No rendering engine provides the granular control over their presentation designers desire. This simple, three-part progressive enhancement provides the markup, CSS, and JavaScript to
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16 month ago
philgyford : Blueprintcss - Google Code - In-progress CSS framework for constructing grid-based web page layouts. (via Daring Fireball)
factoryjoe : blueprintcss - Google Code - Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing. S
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16 month ago
43folders : Taskpaper - Go, Jesse -- keeping it simple!
joshua : Taskpaper - simple task management
philgyford : Taskpaper - To-do list organizer application for Mac which uses plain text files. (via Daring Fireball)
factoryjoe : Taskpaper - For Mac users who want a simpler way to create lists. TaskPaper is a simple to-do list application that helps you stay organized. Unlike competing applications, TaskPaper is based on plain text files which offer you paper-like simplicity
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16 month ago
43folders : Mike Davidson: A Low-Fi Solution to E-Mail Overload: Sentenc.es - "Every e-mail I send to anyone, regardless of subject or recipient, will be five sentences or less. Like a cinquain." via: Daring Fireball
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16 month ago
Simon Willison : How Top Bloggers Earn Money - How Top Bloggers Earn Money. Interesting numbers on BoingBoing, I can has Cheezburger, TechCrunch and more.
philgyford : How Top Bloggers Earn Money - I'm fascinated by people making decent amounts of money from this stuff, particularly when it happens almost accidentally. (via Daring Fireball)
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17 month ago
Andy Baio : Adrian Holovaty releases templatemaker, a Python library for smart screen scraping - given a large set of HTML documents, intelligently extracts the strings that change between them
Matthew M. Boedicker : templatemaker, Python screenscraping library - (via waxy) [via]
joshua : Introducing templatemaker - back out templates from similar documents
Rod Begbie : Introducing templatemaker - Python library that analyses a corpus of web pages, works out where the dynamic values are in the template, then allows you to scrape out the juicy details. I can think of oh, so many uses for this. [via] #
philgyford : Introducing templatemaker | Holovaty.com - Python thing. Point it at some HTML files and it will make a template with holes for the unique strings in the pages. (via Daring Fireball)
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philgyford : Blog.pmarca.com: How to hire the best people you've ever worked with - Interesting read, for if I'm ever in such a situation. From this you certainly shouldn't hire me as a programmer. (via Daring Fireball)
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17 month ago
philgyford : Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : bgcolor follies - Over a couple of years I've collected a folder full of links to sites that make this careless mistake with the aim of writing just such a post. Now no need. (via Daring Fireball)
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18 month ago
François Nonnenmacher : E-mail is not a platform for design - ASCII means never having to say you’re sorry
philgyford : Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : E-mail is not a platform for design - On why non-HTML email is still the way to go. Would be good to have some more facts and figures for ammunition when needed... (via Daring Fireball)
Cameron Moll : E-mail is not a platform for design - Zeldman: E-mail is not a platform for design. I have to admit I side with Zeldman on this one. I've been a plain-text email sender for as long as I can remember, and I choose plain-text for receiving emails whenever given the chance.
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18 month ago
43folders : Apple Updates MacBook Pros - "Let the tea-reading begin: Why would Apple announce these today rather than wait until next week’s WWDC keynote? Answer: They must have plently of other announcements for WWDC."
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jimray : Niall Kennedy on why every good domain name is taken - A tiny evolutionary step above spammers on the chart of "Why the internet sucks in 2007" (like DJ Shadow said, it's the money)
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