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UK Finance Detailed Flowchart : UKPersonalFinance
Attempting to create a flowchart for deciding how to pay debts and/or save. Its hard to make this stuff both simple and general.
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Grand Designs For Sale | Buildings From Kevin McCloud’s Iconic Television Series
By the Unique Property Bulletin people, keeping track of which Grand Designs have sold, and when.
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Unique Property Bulletin | Unique Property For Unique People
Lots of amazing property for sale in the UK… islands, forts, windmills, water towers, manor houses, etc.
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MWeb - Pro Markdown writing, note taking and static blog generator App - MWeb
Sounds like a nice thing. Haven’t tried it. (via @gilest)
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CSS ICON — project by Wenting Zhang
Icons drawn only with CSS, and very easy to copy. A bit ugly, but maybe a good inspiration for better… (via @simonw)
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I’m Google
Lovely Tumblr of photographs, each one similar to the previous, but slightly different, gradually changing.
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Portfolios – Mark Hurrell | Lecture In Progress
Sounds like good advice on creating a good design portfolio.
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No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons » “Humans”? They Weren’t Kidding.
On why ‘Humans’ season one wasn’t that good. I mostly enjoyed it at the time but all this is true.
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Can we stop bad-mouthing CSS in developer talks, please? | Christian Heilmann
On why CSS is complex and good enough not to deserve being put down by some developers. (via Jeremy Keith)
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MacDown: The open source Markdown editor for OS X.
“The open source Markdown editor for OS X.” Seems nice. (via Infovore)
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How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016
Yeah. Bonkers. (via FaveJet)
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Deutsch - warum nicht? | DW.COM
German audio series for learning.
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TimeMapper - Make Timelines and TimeMaps fast!
Make a timeline thing, including maps, using Google Spreadsheets as the data source.
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The HURRDURR Games — Dorian Taylor
On why most hackathons are exploitative. Includes a calculator for whether it’s worth your time. (via Favejet)
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Hyperloop: exclusive look inside the race to build Elon Musk’s futuristic transport | WIRED UK
My initial reaction is that crazy Silicon Valley nonsense is infecting more and more industries, but I suppose the early days of rail were this crazy too? (via @simonw)
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The State of the Presidential Debate - The New Yorker
Interesting history of the debates and how they came to be what they are. (via @antimega)
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Cheat Sheet: Writing Python 2-3 compatible code — Python-Future documentation
Because this is usually where I end up when googling for this stuff.
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Employee #1: Amazon · The Macro
On building the first Amazon website. (via Kottke)
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WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio | DeepMind
The babbling nonsensical speech in the “Knowi What to Say” section is really eerie. Like the sound of a computer becoming sentient moments before it decides all humans should die. (via @tomtaylor)
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webpack-howto
I suppose I should be at least familiar with this season’s front-end build tool.
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Sunken Cities – BLDGBLOG
I’m grimly fascinated with how places are going to adapt, while the can, to rising sea levels.
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Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee by Jerry Seinfeld - Michael Richards
A really nice one.
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Inside The Federal Bureau Of Way Too Many Guns | GQ
How the non-computerised method of finding out who bought a particular gun, from its make and serial number, works in the US. Crazy.
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Income and inequality historical data explorer
Graphing the data for successive UK governments.
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Sheetsee.js
“A client-side library for connecting Google Spreadsheets to a website and visualizing the information in tables, maps and charts.” Obviously requires JavaScript, but looks like a nice way to create easily-editable data, charts, maps.
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When Life Is A Product Hunt — Backchannel
The technology enthusiast logs the URL of the insightful article into his archive in the belief this will either make the insights more memorable or, at least, make him appear more discerning to the other technology enthusiasts who see the URLs he archives.
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Lost & Found in Borough — Medium
Ugh, the things people just throw out. Loads of 19th century plans, documents, etc thrown out by an estate agent on Borough High Street.
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YouGov | The leadership effect - how leaders can shift perceptions of parties
Because I like charts showing the left/right position of parties and politicians over time.
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Email transparency
From 2013, with a 2014, update on how Stripe have (most) of their internal email visible by everyone internally. (Lots of Google Groups.)
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Global/universal short-links for your Amazon content @ BookLinker
I’ve often thought this would be a good idea, but hadn’t looked to see who did it. (One URL for a book, which redirects user to their country’s Amazon.) I find it odd Amazon doesn’t do it. Or have a single international page for a book.