2011 Archive

December

• Texas Native Wood Height Adjustable Desk
• Modern art was CIA 'weapon'
• Fashioning Apollo: How the Spacesuit Was Made, Against All Odds
• In Caffeine We Trust
• Write Logs for Machines, use JSON
• A Geek’s Guide to China’s Silicon Valley
• Homemade Tater Tots
• Ultra-Crispy Slow-Roasted Pork Shoulder
• Christopher Hitchens: A Reading List : The New Yorker
• Quick Tip: Printing or Creating a PDF of Google Translate Output
• Study More Chinese
• The Story of W&L: China’s Great Internet Divide
• Tynt Users Opt Out
• Android: A visual history
• On Product Management
• A Bag of Holding
• Patterns
• pttrns
• lovely ui
• Android Interaction Design Patterns
• SMACSS - Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS
• Foundation

November

• Democracy and the Cult of Ignorance
• Bad Passwords with Chinese Characteristics
• Boiled omelets
• Space Ipsum
• What are the most addictive loyalty programs? - Quora
• Money
• Garlic Potato Fries
• The legal history of "fuck" [PDF]
• Mobile Life
• Sina Weibo Releases U.S. User Numbers
• Sciencebob.com
• Foursquare Venues, Wikipedia Articles, Census Data and More… All With Just an IP Address! | Infochimps Blog
• The The Two Things You Must Know When Choosing Your China Brand Name
• Activities for 2 Year Olds
• Infographic: The Most Valuable Digital Consumers | Nielsen Wire
• Redesigning the Country Selector
• How China Rocks iOS: Usage, Upgrading, and Updating
• LiveReload
• SimpLESS
• Ultra-Crispy Roast Potatoes
• Retronaut
• China: The New Mobile App Dragon
• Condo at the End of the World
• Flurry Extends Its AppCircle Into Crowded Mobile App Engagement Market
• PlugBug Charger

October

• Prefix free
• WordPress Post Formats Admin UI
• Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support
• Troubleshooting a battery-sucking iPhone 4S
• Which China social media platforms do prestige brands choose?
• jQuery Timelinr
• East Asian Cultural Perception in UX / Interface Design
• Brush Pilot
• Intro to Tencent Weibo
• Thoughtful China
• Choosing A Bag :: One Bag
• Barbecue: Pastrami
• Everything You Need to Know About China in 10 Minutes
• Our Mobile Planet
• peculiar snapshots
• Sjntax
• The Building Blocks of All Compelling Stories
• Mandarin Madness: The Tones

September

• 10.7: Dual Monitor full-screen app trick - Mac OS X Hints
• How Facebook Mobile Was Designed to Write Once, Run Everywhere
• Pinyin Chart - Learn Chinese Online Everyday
• Pinyin Practice
• China's Strategy
• The Kindle Fire
• 10 Omnigraffle tips you might not know (plus one bonus!)
• Translate Tab
• evoz
• Interview with Douglas Raymond, CEO of Julu Mobile
• China, Austin and Mobile Development
• αlphaPun.ch
• Tethras
• Cherry-Smoked Vietnamese-Flavored Ribs
• Dumb Americans | Seeing Red in China
• Mobile Roadie Wants to be the Chinese iTunes for App Developers
• The Font-Bot Project
• Refreshing Vintage Wood
• The Multi-Size Web
• Made in Russia: Vintage Curiosities of Soviet Design
• 18 PSDs For Mobile Phones UI Design
• Shorter media queries
• The Education Factory
• How to win a DEMOgod award at the DEMO conference
• The Greatest Customer Service Story Ever Told, Starring Morton’s Steakhouse
• David Bowie's 'Space Oddity' Recreated As Children's Book
• HTML5 Video Player
• Yoink

August

• Adaptive Images in HTML
• Sauced: Cherry Barbecue Sauce
• Misadventures in VC Funding: The $24 Million Moz Almost Raised
• BugHerd
• Knowin' What to Throw Away and Knowin' What to Keep
• Scout
• The Kid Should See This.
• Proxino
• Viralheat Developer Center
• History Of The Stack Exchange API, Mistakes
• Fast FAQ/Quick Tips for the Murano
• The Usability of the Link Icon
• Debugging the HTML5 Filesystem API
• spin.js
• The Heads-Up Grid
• LESS.app For Mac OS X
• Golden Grid System
• What happens to user experience in a minimum viable product?
• Re-tabulate
• An open letter to speakers
• FlexSlider
• Warren Buffett on Tax Breaks
• Too Busy Killing Nazis
• 39 Ridiculous Things To Do With CSS3 Box Shadows
• Find and Download PDF Manuals of Electronic Products using Amazon
• jQuery.fracs
• Anatomy of a HTML5 Mobile App
• Introduction to the Page Visibility API
• Verify
• Debt Ceiling Deal: The Devil Is In The Details
• NounProject
• The First Imperial Walker, Plus Full Crew
• Pusher
• Prefixr
• Best of Sprouter: 25 high impact startup answers to remember
• Confusing and Cluttered Twitter Search Results
• 7 Chrome Tips Developers & Designers May Not Know
• Flexible Nav
• Sinon.JS

July

• Visualizing the Debt Crisis: Layers of Passion and Opinion
• Ascensor.js
• Chosen
• The Campaign For Real Monopoly
• A Cyanotype Looking for a Home
• 10.7: Un-hide the User Library folder
• Inside insides
• Smoosh
• Grilling: Rum-Glazed Pineapple with Toasted Coconut and Vanilla Ice Cream
• Sidestep
• Copywriting For Geeks
• Tattly™ Designy Temporary Tattoos
• Fractal | Email HTML/CSS Validation
• Cook the Book: Fleisher's Spareribs
• Using cron to Trigger wp-cron.php |
• WordPress Excessive Overloading Your Server - Solving the wp_cron.php Resource Issue
• Mobilizer
• List of bookmarklets for mobile debugging
• Mastering the Art of Burger Blending with Eight Cuts of Beef

June

• How to build a web widget (using jQuery)
• Crispy Chicken Wings with Seven-Spice-Powder Marinade
• Paper.js
• Rapid Prototyping with flickrBomb
• jQuery Waypoints
• Ultimate Round Up of Free Photoshop Patterns
• Sprite Cow
• Achievement Design 101
• Dear Photograph
• The American Dream
• CSS Lint
• All That's Programmed is Not Code
• A Whole Bunch of Amazing Stuff Pseudo Elements Can Do
• Getting Funded: Market, Product, Team
• YouTube - Fold a shirt in only 2 seconds !
• Bacon Ipsum
• 12 Fun CSS Text Shadows You Can Copy and Paste
• Genesis Quick Tips
• 123RF Stock Photography
• QLStephen

May

• Highlight from 'A Clash of Kings' by George R. R. Martin
• Highlight from 'A Clash of Kings' by George R. R. Martin
• Skeleton
• Advanced Google Analytics for Startups
• Styling ordered list numbers
• Loading Typekit fonts asynchronously
• Better Semantics with CSS Combinators & Selectors
• Textify
• Chicago: Whisky at The Bristol is Smokin'
• Japanese graphic design from the 1920s-30s
• CSS Mask-Image & Text
• Yale Digital Commons
• Lost Type Co-op
• Listgeeks
• Letterpress: an Instructional Video
• Design Then Code ~ iPhone & iPad Interface Design Tutorials
• Amazon.com: the Hidden Empire
• 2000 Free Photoshop Brushes
• Flux Slider Demo
• FitText - A plugin for inflating web type
• ifttt
• The only wrong answer is 50/50: Calculating the co-founder equity split
• Microjs
• Now on Roku: A Plex Channel for All Your Media
• Web font services - An Overview
• Craiggers
• Getting Comfortable With Contracts

April

• Virginia Convention of 1861 - Civil War Collections - University of Richmond
• ender-js/Ender
• How To Scale a Development Team
• The Mark of Cain - Russian Prison System Documentary
• A Players, B Players, Grinders and Losers
• Tileables
• Subtle Patterns
• The Age of the World… in Art
• CSS3 Patterns Gallery
• The Rebel Constitution
• Cheap Magic
• A Toolset For Managing Screen Resolutions
• FFFFALLBACK - A simple tool for bulletproof web typography.
• Support Details
• 24-bit PNG to 8-bit PNG with alpha
• The Power of Google Analytics Custom Variables
• Custom Bamboo Macbook Cases
• Optimizing the asynchronous Google Analytics snippet
• Showoff
• Chinese Style Spareribs
• Soldering is easy - the comic book
• CSS3 Generator
• Bond Mixology
• CSS3 Flexbox
• CSSWARP
• CSS3 properties accurately explained
• The Cicada Principle and Why It Matters to Web Designers
• Solarized
• WhatFont Bookmarklet
• Griddle.it
• Wu-Note Project
• The Complete Guide to Ribs of the World
• Page Speed Online
• The Burger Lab: What's The Best Way To Grind Beef?

March

• A is for Ackbar
• JSON Editor
• HTTP Archive
• Inventables
• 4 Tips and Tricks for more Legible Content
• Amazon Cloud Drive
• Fastersite: How (not) to trigger a layout in WebKit
• Fixed-Width vs. Responsive, Connect Four vs. Twister
• Grilling: Smashed Potatoes
• Everything I've learned about podcasting over the last four years
• Spectacles
• If You Start with Numbers
• Think Quarterly
• alexj on Instagrid.me
• J Hilburn
• The Manifesto Manifesto
• Ceaser - CSS Easing Animation Tool
• Smart Cover for iPad 1
• Highlight from 'The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest' by Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland
• Google Feed API
• Treesaver.js
• The Food Lab: More Tips For Perfect Steaks
• Orpheus Pro™ Webfont & Desktop font
• Worldspace FireEyes « Deque Systems | Software, Training, and Consulting for Web Accessibility and Section 508 Compliance
• SXSW Interactive Interview: 5 Guys in Kilts, Leveraging the Power of Geekiness One Conversation at a Time - Austinist
• CSS Border Tricks with Collapsed Boxes
• Free Textures
• Open Source Ampersands
• All that is Necessary
• Goodnight Dune

February

• Museum of Useful Thing
• Highlight from 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' by Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland
• Automoblox
• HTML5 — Edition for Web Developers
• Bringing New York Style Pizza Sauce Home
• The Pizza Lab: New York Style Pizza at Home (Or How I Became a Food Processor Convert)
• JSHint
• Magic vs. Technology - Mordor's Point of View
• How To: Make Custom Art from Your Own Fingerprints
• Trailer Thursday - Texas Monthly
• Real Time Congress API
• Fonts In Use
• If we don't, remember me.
• ProgrammableWeb
• Isotope
• Kilts, Tartans, Wales and Texas
• Crispy Potato Roast
• UnFried Chicken
• FindTheBest.com
• Quick Tip: Think Right-to-Left with jQuery
• Bacon-Bourbon Jam
• Rewards for Rebellion: Tiny Nation and Crown for Life
• Git Immersion

January

• Dropbox + iTunes 9 = Automatically add songs to a remote copy of iTunes
• Cutting The Interrogation Short
• Taste Test: Best Salsa | Serious Eats
• Why You Hate Comic Sans
• Quick Tip: How to Target WordPress Sticky Posts
• Congress Passes Socialized Medicine and Mandates Health Insurance -In 1798
• Wings al Pastor
• Easily Remove White Or Black Backgrounds with Blending Sliders in Photoshop
• iPad View Source Bookmarklet
• Meebo Bar embed code open sourced
• Lessons Learned: Case Study: UX, Design, and Food on the Table
• Icebreakertags
• Being Geek, a Review
• Game Day Recipe Roundup: Wings | Serious Eats
• Email Etiquette for the Super-Busy
• 17 Mutable Suggestions For Naming A Startup
• PadPivot: The First Project I've Backed on Kickstarter
• Stella
• Social Mention
• Managing News
• The Photoshop Etiquette Manifesto for Web Designers
• Should I work for Free?
• 10 Free Server & Network Monitoring Tools that Kick Ass
• Tracking Every Release
• A Mystery: Why Can't We Walk Straight?
• The 1140px CSS Grid System/Framework
• Little Big Details
• krimelabb
• Seasoned Advice
• 5 Steps to setup ShowSlow as Web Performance Repository for dynaTrace Data Application Performance, Scalability and Architecture
• WordPress code surprise: wp_sprintf
• wordmark.it
• wunderlist
• Zombie.js