Links from 2012

"I asked Galahad Clark, the brand's creator, if he thinks the general public's shoe-coddled feet will be able to handle running with such little support. "Yes," says Clark, "but it will be a big transition for people accustomed to wearing highly cushioned, inflexible shoes. The foot muscles are weak and need to time to adjust." Not such a bad thing, he believes. "Trainers artificially allow unfit people to run longer than their bodies are conditioned for. It's rather like hitting yourself over the head while wearing a crash helmet: it might not hurt immediately but the long-term harm is obvious."

Underfull – the tablecloth that turns spilling into poetry (by Kristine Bjaadal)

I realise that in pointing out that advertising is fundamentally shit, I’m not being very helpful and I’m not exactly offering much in the way of solutions or alternatives. But I rail against the idea that we need to accept intrusive online advertising just because “that’s the way things have always been.” There are many constructs—advertising, copyright—that we treat as if they are immutable laws of nature when in fact they may be outmoded business concepts more suited to the last century (if they ever really worked at all).

Furoshiki-style cloth wrapping.

Public transport info for Wales. Useful if one should, for example, be visiting Snowdon.

parallel-flickr info

Ever wondered why HTML5 Boilerplate is based on normalize.css instead of reset.css? Read about the differences: http://t.co/TJEGDUMl

Great review of @font-face performance by Dave Artz: http://t.co/CqPOUaBY

A useful summary.

That's how I roll.

The “management team” isn’t the “decision making” team. It’s a support function. You may want to call them administration instead of management, which will keep them from getting too big for their britches.

Test custom fonts in the browser.

A series of mixes intended for listening while programming to aid concentration and increase productivity (also compatible with other activities).

Frictionless sharing has the same drawback as “effortless poetry”: its final products are often intolerable. It’s one thing to find an interesting article and choose to share it with friends. It’s quite another to inundate your friends with everything that passes through your browser or your app, hoping that they will pick something interesting along the way.

Python CSS/Javascript minifier

Why Varnish, Celery, Solr, and Redis are the new LAMP

I did not. But then I am not an architect or spouse thereof.

"Chinese Encoding and Language Tags". This is going to be fun.

One goal of this was to figure out how much of the variance in score comes from the tile order and how much comes from the board, given that a tile order would be expected. It turns out to be about half-bag, half-board. [...] The blank is worth about 30 points to a good player. [...] The Q is a burden to whichever player receives it, effectively serving as a 5 point penalty.

Parses your readme's markdown into a clean and simple documentation website. Made especially for your gh-pages branch, all you need is a single index.html file that includes the DocumentUp script.

Note to <input x-autocompletetype=email> http://t.co/txxGGiuY beware Tim Berners-Lee’s standards-avenging ninjas bit.ly/vZvzrY

Clever.

London-based printmaker and illustrator. Needs a new, non-Flash site.

a lot of the value of an MVP is testing the risky assumptions every startup has