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Yosemite – Thoughts on blurriness and design ecosystems - Atlassian Blogsblogs.atlassian.com
I reviewed OSX 10.10 over the weekend, and observed a new trend emerging on the design battlefield. It’s blurry, translucent, and vibrant. It’s also incredibly expensive and difficult to render. In OSX 10.10, dragging a translucent window makes the pan... -
Please Stop Asking Me to Speak About Women in Technology | Snipe.Netsnipe.net
I was recently recommended as a pinch-hitter keynote speaker for a Linux conference by a friend who wasn't going to be able to present due to a scheduling - ipo.loyal3.com
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Storj - The Future of Cloud Storagestorj.io
Take back control of your data. Secure, autonomous, blockchain based, decentralized storage. -
Create the Game of Life using Swift and SpriteKitmakegameswith.us
In this tutorial, you will learn to develop Conway’s Game of Life using the new iOS programming language, Swift, and the SpriteKit game engine. This is a Swi... -
Woodsly Lookbook Summer 2014woodsly.com
Check out the Woodsly.com 'Summer 2014 Lookbook’ for this season’s best gear and apparel. -
Amazon To Launch Subscription-Based Billing And Recurring Payments Service | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
Amazon is introducing a new payments service today, which the company hopes will soon be adopted by startup companies and others offering subscription-based.. - en.wikipedia.org
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Beautiful illusions: the economics of uberXjustin-singer.org
Felix Salmon wrote a post recently on the economics of driving for Uber. Following up on Uber's recent claims that the "median small business income with uberX" in NYC is more than $90,766, Felix r... -
Ars tests Internet surveillance—by spying on an NPR reporterarstechnica.com
A week spent playing NSA reveals just how much data we leak online. -
Schematics? Really!? | XESS Corp.xess.com
Hearing talk about using schematics for FPGA design makes me feel like I'm standing at the top of a steep hill next to a toddler on a trike with loose wheel nuts. Some advice may be in order, to wit: -
Brazil’s billion-dollar gym experimentmosaicscience.com
Can a grand vision of 4,000 free public gyms overcome inequality and fight Brazil’s health crisis? Catherine de Lange reports. -
Corporate Open Source Anti-patternsslideshare.net
Talk given at FISL 2012 in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Video is on YouTube, albeit with suboptimal video and sound: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhgXQFk9noI. I gav… -
PixelBlockchrome.google.com
PixelBlock is a Gmail extension that blocks any email open tracking attempts used against you. -
The Anthropology of Hackerstheatlantic.com
Hackers have refashioned many political concerns -- such as a commitments to free speech -- through technological and legal artifacts -
Parkinson's Laweconomist.com
IT is a commonplace observation that work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. Thus, an elderly lady of leisure can spend the entire day in... - bbc.com
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The Dogs That Sniff Out Land Mines - Modern Farmermodernfarmer.com
Mine detection dogs require a singleminded focus and attention to detail that is unparalleled. We talk to a man who train them. - postgres-xl.org
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Where Be Monsters? The Daedalus Sea Serpent and the War for Credibility—Vol. 2, No. 2theappendix.net
The nineteenth-century scientific elite were not exactly open-minded about the existence of sea serpents.