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- The AI Great Leap Forward leehanchung.github.io
The sparrows are dead. The locusts haven’t arrived yet. The flowers bloomed full of poison pills. The furnaces produced pig iron stamped as steel that’s now load-bearing. The grain numbers look fantastic.
- Scrap Metals, Pubs and Shops in Allen Road, Stoke Newington - A London Inheritance alondoninheritance.com
- Story Points Revisited ronjeffries.com
The focus on more gets in the way of increasing value. Increasing pressure to do more almost inevitably has a bad result: the team tries to go faster, and wind up skimping on code quality and on tests. They soon begin shipping more defects, slowing down because of the increased rework to fix the defects, and slowing down even more because the code quality rapidly declines. Things get worse and worse, pressure increases, and it becomes a race to disaster.
Ah, the memories.
- The Cannae Problem joanwestenberg.com
The Cannae Problem is not exclusive to ancient warfare. It stretches across institutions throughout history and into our modern world. When organizations, systems, movements and humans become victims of their own success, when they mistake "what worked before" for "what will always work," they create the conditions for catastrophic failure.
- The history of album art matthewstrom.com
- Design Systems ◆ 24 ways 24ways.org
Somehow missed this first time round.
- OldMapsOnline oldmapsonline.org
Browse historical places and search for old maps with timeline.
Nicholas Saunders was a counterculture pioneer with an endless stream of quixotic schemes and a yearning to spread knowledge – but his true legacy is a total remaking of the way Britain eats.
When I transitioned from Angular.js to React, I left a lot of Angular.js behind me. All of the time I had invested at getting really good at Angular.js felt like a huge waste. I don’t want that to ever happen to me again. So I prefer to focus on a framework that can not only give me what I want from the user experience perspective, but can also give me skills that I can use wherever I develop for the web.
- The World’s Writing Systems worldswritingsystems.org
- A History of Design Systems on the Web - The History of the Web thehistoryoftheweb.com
- History of Canonmills – One Canonmills onecanonmills.com
- Web Development History webdevelopmenthistory.com
An ongoing project to chronicle the history of the internet from a developer perspective.
- Revisiting Adaptive Design, a lost design movement (Interconnected) interconnected.org
That early work on Adaptive Design has already done the hard digging of finding reference points and developing frameworks to guide product design for adaptation - it’s the anti Apple, the anti Amazon, the anti DRM. I’d love to for designers to share their ideas for future adaptable iPhones and adaptable apps, expand the discourse, and pushing back on the status quo. Adaptive Design is a movement worth reviving in 2020.
- Today, the Trident Era Ends schepp.dev
- Retiring Internet Explorer textslashplain.com
It’s with love that I beg you… please let Internet Explorer retire to the great bitbucket in the sky. It’s time. It’s been time for a long time.
It’s hard to pick a font size that is just right, especially as you try to adapt to different screens and scenarios. Looking at the recent history of how we got here can give us some perspective.
- What's Salesforce? tryretool.com
- Particletree » Rediscovering the Button Element particletree.com
- Changing History with Git | Flippin' Awesome flippinawesome.org
- Full stack web development act2.me
<blockquote>So, this is where we are today – and my reference architecture is mongodb for the database server, node/express as the web/application server, AngularJS on the client side (along with Bootstrap for styling). I find that this architecture allows me to build web services really quickly that can have a client interface build fast using AngularJS, and then one can start development of mobile apps against the service using PhoneGap or native mobile development tools.</blockquote>
- Highbury and Newington Green, then and now – Time Out London now-here-this.timeout.com
<blockquote>With some archival photography, a good eye for a camera angle and some solid Photoshopping, Redditor Drewsta1987 created these excellent then-and-now images of the Highbury and Newington Green area.</blockquote>
- A history of the Amiga, part 8: The demo scene | Ars Technica arstechnica.com
- BBC News - How to read London bbc.co.uk
What you need to navigate around [London] is not just a map but a map with the dimension of time attached
- The Death of the Cyberflâneur - NYTimes.com nytimes.com
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.
- Genealogy, Family Trees and Family History – Ancestry UK ancestry.co.uk
Parental choice.
"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?
- Adactio: Journal—Erase and rewind adactio.com
"The BBC is employing a slash-and-burn policy regarding online content. 172 websites are going to disappear down the memory hole. Just to be clear, these sites aren’t going to be archived. They are going to be deleted from the web. Server space is the new magnetic tape." Nnng.
- Reasons to be Cheerful - Charlie's Diary antipope.org
"An acquaintance asked, somewhat grumpily, if anything good had happened in the past decade". Always look on the bright side...
- The Tree Slider - GitHub github.com
The new HTML5 History API (which really has nothing to do with HTML — it's a JavaScript API) allows us to manage the URL changes while CSS3 transitions handle the sliding. Permalinks are always maintained, your back button works as expected, and it's much faster than waiting for a full page load.
- Commonplace book - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org
Such books were essentially scrapbooks filled with items of every kind: medical recipes, quotes, letters, poems, tables of weights and measures, proverbs, prayers, legal formulas. Commonplaces were used by readers, writers, students, and humanists as an aid for remembering useful concepts or facts they had learned. Each commonplace book was unique to its creator's particular interests.
- In Search of Number One « Adventures in the infraordinary jameswe333.wordpress.com
My plan for this project is to make my way down and back up Essex Road in Islington from number one to number 400-odd visiting every business along the way.
- Let's make blogging good again (Noisy Decent Graphics) noisydecentgraphics.typepad.com
I'm game.
- Internet Meme Database | Know Your Meme knowyourmeme.com
The first comprehensive collection of Numbers Stations recordings released to the public.
Mesofacts are the facts that change neither too quickly nor too slowly, that lie in this difficult-to-comprehend middle, or meso-, scale. Often, we learn these in school when young and hold onto them, even after they change.
- What went wrong with Freecycle in the UK? - The Ecologist theecologist.org
"Deron Beal and the US Network made no comment." Says it all, really.