- Help Me Find Books for my 10-year-old – bookrecommendations | Ask MetaFilter
Great list if you happen to have a 10 year old boy that likes books.
(categories: books metafilter reading boys kids ) - Amelia’s First Time Watching Star Wars by Mark Van Der Hyde – Storehouse
Awesome.
(categories: star-wars movies kids traditions )
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Links: 2-27-2015
- The Secrets of Aging Cheese: A Tour of Murray’s Cheese Caves | Serious Eats
Awesome.
(categories: cheese food science )
Links: 2-26-2015
- Alex Payne — Meditation and Performance
Quote: "We sit with our suffering, and in doing so we foster the empathy that lets us genuinely engage with the suffering of others."
(categories: mindset mindfulness focus people meditation empathy ) - Karl Ove Knausgaard travels through America
Quote:" In a system of mass production, the individual workers are replaceable and the products are identical. The identical cars are followed by identical gas stations, identical restaurants, identical motels and, as an extension of these, by identical TV screens, which hang everywhere in this country, broadcasting identical entertainment and identical dreams."
(categories: culture ) - How Technology is Tricking You Into Tipping More — Psychology of Stuff — Medium
Noticed this exact thing twice on my recent trip to the Bay Area, last cab I was in only gave tipping options at 20% and up.
(categories: interface habits behavior psychology )
Links: 2-24-2015
- Bookcision: Export/Download Your Kindle Highlights
Installed, pretty handy.
(categories: amazon bookmarks bookmarklet chrome kindle tools ) - Mockups To Go – All Projects | myBalsamiq
Bunch of free Balsamiq templates if you’re into that kind of thing.
(categories: balsamiq design ui ux ) - Prioritizing and Planning within Heroku Postgres Craig Kerstiens
Helpful grid with axes for difficulty and impact: low difficulty, high impact are no-brainers, etc..
(categories: productmanagement planning decision-making )
Links: 2-10-2015
- What Are OKRs? A good mix of common sense | Happy Melly
Quote: "The twist that the OKR’s practice adds is that you must define multiple key results. That’s because no metric is perfect, and it’s best to look at each problem from multiple angles. Don’t get all hung up over one silly target. If one target fails, no worries! You have others." I’ve been referring to this as triangulation when talking about solving problems, using only one point of view leaves you open to missing the forest from the trees.
(categories: okr kpi measurement performance management reporting metrics ) - PDCA – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Another 4 letter management acronym!
(categories: planning management business reporting metrics decision-making )
Links: 2-5-2015
- Interoperability, Browser & Cross Platform Testing | Modern.IE
nice, thanks Microsoft!
(categories: browser ie microsoft testing )
Links: 2-3-2015
- Building Super Fast Web Apps with PJAX
Catching up on 3 year old acronyms.
(categories: javascript pjax ajax performance html ) - » 7 Principles of Rich Web Applications
Lots of really great stuff in this post, especially liked the points about scrolling amnesia (slays me on Twitter when I scroll to some point in time and mistakenly don’t ctrl-click on a link and lose my place), data synchronization (feels magical when my laptop and iPhone notify me about an email within seconds) and acting immediately and optimistically via JavaScript (I remember preaching this internally for likes on our app).
(categories: performance html apps javascript ux ) - Using ServiceWorker in Chrome today – JakeArchibald.com
Looks really useful (train demo is super nice) but won’t fly anywhere until IE / Safari support it.
(categories: browser html5 javascript serviceworker chrome google ) - Why Sass? · An A List Apart Article
Great intro to Sass for those of living under rocks for the past couple years (ie: me).
(categories: css design sass html ) - Delivering The Goods – Fluent 2014 – Paul Irish – Google Slides
Fantastic presentation on the difference / important of latency vs. bandwidth.
(categories: performance web http dns ssl tcp-ip )
Links: 1-29-2015
- alex/what-happens-when
AWESOME.
(categories: research why details http programming )
Links: 1-28-2015
Links: 1-27-2015
- Being A Manager Is Lonely
Quote: "I put more weight on people learning than on people being taught. If the internet was just a good medium for information dispersal — a better kind of book — then that is nice, but not transformational. The internet is more than that: it’s a place to discuss, and disagree, and watch others discussing. You can be provocative, and then step back and take on a more conservative opinion – a transformation most people would be too shy to commit to print. " and then a bunch of additional great points about being a manager. Comments are good too.
(categories: leadership management business engineering mentoring ) - One Big Fluke › Experimentally verified: "Why client-side templating is wrong"
Really well done.
(categories: client javascript performance web templating )