Links from 2011

Cheers, Scott!

Although maybe just switching to vim would be better.

Old ground, worth covering again.

manifestR is a bookmarklet, which you drag to your bookmarks bar. Then, when you visit any page, you can click the manifestR button, and it will create an HTML5 appcache manifest file for that page.

Expensive bags.

A behavior for Internet Explorer allowing it to recognize and render various CSS3 box decoration properties

A JavaScript plugin that makes long, unwieldy select boxes much more user-friendly. It is currently available in both jQuery and Prototype flavors.

For non-Apple SSDs.

Excellent article from James on ars. Well done, James.

Euston, we have a problem

A planeload of DVDs... bandwidth... etc etc

With fish stocks under pressure, which are okay to eat?

Useful from the other side i.e. how to be hired as a consultant and not suck.

"Unless the web fragments again, and it’s once more us against them, I think we’re on the road to efficient and productive normalcy. Which is great in almost every way except that it’s just not as fun. The web is on its way to becoming a commodity [...] I haven’t given up. I just wonder sometimes how long we’ve got before we all have to stop being hackers and be software engineers." What's next?

9 to try, then.

A reference point for all designers creating BBC websites

Repo for previous.

Dropbox alternative, should that day ever come.

Let’s rate our technologies for how much they help us as primates, rather than how they can put us further into this dream of being powerful gods who stalk around on a planet that doesn’t really matter to us.

Lots of useful things here. Use Vagrant.

Wondering why I didn't save this in 2008. Keep referring to it.

Many, many types of seed (including nettles).

The tea served by The Modern Pantry.

Mmm, nettle tea.

Ale Trumps® features a selection of 34 of the UK's top ales and is played along the lines of other Trumps games, under the following categories: the age of the brewery, its production level, the strength of the beer, its depth of colour, its rarity and refreshment potential.