Links from 2011

I strongly encourage releasing reusable portions of your code - it’s the lifeblood of the developer community. Over the years, I’ve put together a set of best practices for releasing open source code, to make life easier partly for yourself but mainly for those who will use your code.

Quite upsetting.

Could have done with this recently. Next time.

...will probably stick with Colorbox, mind.

The health service is portrayed as an intractable managerial nightmare. We spend so much time deploring the waste and inefficiency that we often forget that at the heart of the whole unwieldy system is a routine compassion, which is simply magnificent. And even more remarkable is that we attempt to guarantee this consideration to every person in the country who needs care.

Killing puppies.

When you take the friction out of sharing, you also remove the value.

Lots of options here (although merging files sounds like a bad bad plan - merging commits is probably more sane).

"Have you ever wished you could style checkboxes, drop down menus, radio buttons, and file upload inputs?" Not really, no.

"Niceforms is a script that will replace the most commonly used form elements with custom designed ones." Oh dear.

I'd argue with a few of these (Transglobal Underground? Throbbing Pouch? Deep Forest?) but lots of goodness elsewhere in the list.

A well-structured styleguide. Need more of these.

Hybrid messenger/rucksack models.

These look solid but the military stuff is a vaguely annoying.

Good bag recommendations in the comments.

Tim Coates' ebook retail startup.