Links from 2013

The "clunky, insecure but simple and reasonably effective" strategy.

<blockquote>[Bookmarklet to] take a selection -- including headlines, links, and images -- and converts it to Markdown using Marky.</blockquote>

<blockquote>EAT LIKE YOU GIVE A FUCK</blockquote>

<blockquote> Let's say someone's made a pull request from their fork into your repository. Here's how you can check out her changes on your machine and verify that everything is a-okay.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Myth is a postprocessor that lets you write pure CSS without having to worry about slow browser support, or even slow spec approval. It's like a CSS polyfill.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Here's a more nuanced view: speed matters, and you can be really successful developing important, business-critical software by emphasizing speed over quality. If it's a problem domain you're particularly familiar with, especially if you have a lot of tools, frameworks, and libraries to help you, you can get an impressive amount of work done.

As you continue to work, you'll slow down. At some point—about six weeks is my guess—you'll actually be going slower than someone who's focused on quality. They'll speed up over time (asymptotically), and you'll continue to slow down (also asymptotically). You'll still be ahead of them, though, because you got so much done in that initial burst of energy. Your life will start to suck, though, and you'll be looking forward to when the project is done.

Eventually—about three to six months, I'd guess—you'll fall behind. You'll be going so slow that your initial advantage will have been erased. Luckily, you now get to hand the project off and start a new one. Win!

Three to seven years later, your code will be thrown away. It will be so expensive to change that it no longer makes economic sense to maintain. If it's still relevant, it will be rewritten at great expense and even greater opportunity cost.</blockquote>

Well said.

Hah.

<blockquote>A community service to families who find it difficult to provide a birthday cake for their child. The cakes are baked by volunteers from your community with your kid’s favourite theme or style.</blockquote>

What a fine idea.

Cool article on Responsive Typography: http://t.co/8iNfYVPoAR /via @vpieters

Another alternative to Flowdock/Hipchat.

<blockquote>The idea that the market will solve such things as environmental concerns, as our racial divides, as our class distinctions, our problems with educating and incorporating one generation of workers into the economy after the other when that economy is changing; the idea that the market is going to heed all of the human concerns and still maximise profit is juvenile. It's a juvenile notion and it's still being argued in my country passionately and we're going down the tubes. And it terrifies me because I'm astonished at how comfortable we are in absolving ourselves of what is basically a moral choice. Are we all in this together or are we all not?</blockquote>

<blockquote>Responsive images while we wait for srcset to finish cooking</blockquote>

List of useful Quick Look plugins for developers, installed with Homebrew Cask.

<blockquote>I think there is an equally diffuse malaise today - waiting for a new kind of journalism to bring it into focus. Like with McClure's it won't be just a catalogue of shocking facts - it will be an imaginative leap that pulls all the scandals together and shows how they are part of some new system of power that we don't fully comprehend.</blockquote>

<blockquote>There's one view of psychology according to which everything we do to make ourselves miserable – every dysfunctional behaviour, from minor to destructive – begins as an approach that once worked well, often in childhood, then passed its sell-by date. We're not idiots who choose unhappiness; rather, we develop coping mechanisms that make sense at the time.</blockquote>