Links from 2012

To the question of anxiety: Should we be thinking about ways to make America more of meritocracy in the hopes of quelling our stress? Says McNamee: "A pure meritocracy is not possible and may not even be desirable." (Just ask Harrison Bergeron.) Far more important, he argues, is debunking the myth of meritocracy, harmful "because it provides an incomplete explanation for success and failure, often mistakenly exalting the rich and condemning the poor."

SourceTree supports git-flow.

a plugin for vagrant that allows you manage a sandbox state

What you need to navigate around [London] is not just a map but a map with the dimension of time attached

Concise intro.

A node.js library for testing files or url's against the w3c html validator.

Semantic satiation (also semantic saturation) is a psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who can only process the speech as repeated meaningless sounds.

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Reasoning for "real" property last.

In our daily release meetings, we always used to ask people who wanted to release things on Friday — “will you be at your keyboard all weekend in case something goes wrong?” Answering no to that meant no Friday release.

At Mozilla Space near Leicester Square.

Modernizr is the second-fastest growing JavaScript library of the past year, with 473% growth

Modernizr is the second-fastest growing JavaScript library of the past year, with 473% growth

bash command line completion for pandoc

The commandline version of Spotlight is mdfind. Simply provide your search query as a parameter and let it run.

I don’t intend to argue that people shouldn’t join startups. If the offer’s good, and the job looks interesting, it’s worth trying out. I just don’t think that the current, unconditional “startups are awesome!” mentality serves us well. It’s not good for any of us, because there’s no tyrant worse than a peer selling himself short, and right now there are a lot of great people selling themselves very short for a shot at the “startup experience”– whatever that is.

Without these tax sweeteners the IOC would simply take their corporate circus elsewhere and so begins a race to the bottom in a bidding process that echoes the offshore system. New tax rules ushered in as part of the winning Team GB bid include ‘a temporary exemption from UK Corporation Tax and UK Income Tax for certain non-resident companies’.

The Chrome team wrote on Monday that Chrome will soon drop support for OS X 10.5 and that future versions will only be available for Snow Leopard (10.6) or higher on the Mac. The version of Chrome that will do this will be Chrome 2,291 22 (more specifically, version 22.0.1201.0), which has just been seeded into the dev channel for Mac, Windows, Linux, and Chrome Frame users.

Quick Look plugin for compressed archives.

Freshest info (August 2011) from Matt Cutts.

Solid same-origin policy info and much, much more.

shows how jQuery can be used with RequireJS.

"We host the other stuff." Lose some of the caching advantages from smaller numbers, though?

Useful for the vagrant tips, not really the PS2 dev bits.

A robust and opinionated client-side stack, comprised of tools and frameworks that can help developers quickly build beautiful web applications.