Links from 2012

Convert from URL is handy.

<blockquote>If you are not using Git, you will find yourself facing an increasing number of competitors who are, and a decreasing pool of candidates who are willing to tolerate the alternatives.</blockquote>

xip.io is a magic domain name that provides wildcard DNS for any IP address.

Command line music library sorting against Musicbrainz.

Not so much for the Twitter, more for the OAuth with the Python.

"I decided to rework the core of Fabric. I've documented it below — describing all the changes to the current Fabric 1.0a — including funky new features like fab shell and staged deployments." Old but W-O-W.

Don’t listen to runners that say it is hard. I don’t disbelieve them when they say that. But I suggest it is hard because they run for ulterior motives. People don’t feel they deserve certain things unless they are hard.

In short, Google recommends you go with a responsive design when possible, otherwise you can use device-specific HTML but Google asks you to take certain steps to communicate when you are using device-specific HTML.

Helps you load popular widgets asynchronously.

Superb.

Do the rules from Souders' first Performance book still apply?

"A musical realization of the motion graphics of John Whitney as described in his book "digital harmony" var.17 ftw!

Looks like a good example of how to do it.

Hacker News YC: Why CSS Testing Could Be Huge http://t.co/ASB6ASEo

Actually that’s the number one “new model” that the Digerati suggest. Sell T-shirts at your shows to make money! This despite the fact it’s not new. Bands have been selling t-shirts at live shows since the early 1970s. Recording albums to sell a few t-shirts is a terrible way to make money. Thanks for the advice but no thanks. Plus t-shirts are just as bootlegable as music.

There's a lot wrong with this article but there's also a lot right with it, too.

"A multi-faceted visualisation of the world's 50 highest peaks. The interactive graphic, made using Tableau Public, features a clickable map of the summits, satellite images of each peak and figures for each mountain's prominence and overall elevation." Nice.

Hours of fun.

Why performance matters for e-commerce

brew install exiftool. go!

Wah!

A lightweight approach to building HTML5 applications with emphasis on elegance and simplicity

The most important piece of UX for a developer product isn't the homepage or the sign up process or the SDK download. It's the API documentation!

This manual gathers together the key insights into API design that were discovered through many years of software development on the Qt appli- cation development framework at Trolltech (now part of Nokia).

A grunt task to automate moving files to/from Amazon S3.

A common learning application for popular JavaScript MV* frameworks