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  1. New Creatives | designswarm {thoughts}

    Alex on… people like me, and many friends, it seems. I’m not sure about the term itself, but it does seem like a reasonably identifiable “thing”.

  2. Mad Max: Fury Road Costume Thread

    I spent too long reading people working out how to copy every tiny detail of Max’s costume, even before the film was out. Although I don’t quite get the whole “dress up like a character who looks nothing like you” thing.

  3. How To Create Ansible Playbooks to Automate System Configuration on Ubuntu | DigitalOcean

    One more for luck.

  4. An Ansible Tutorial - Servers for Hackers

    More useful-looking future Ansible reading.

  5. GTA V - Graphics Study - Adrian Courrèges

    Even not understanding much of it, it’s amazing to see what goes into rendering a single frame of GTA V. (via @timoarnall a while back)

  6. Pinboard on the Next Economy Conference (with tweets) · bnwlfsn · Storify

    Long, live tweet commentary on O’Reilly’s conference which might make you laugh, cry, or grab a pitchfork. I wonder what someone in 50 or 100 years would think of this. (via @kevin2kelly)

  7. Bespoke Plywood Furniture

    “Designed and manufactured in London.”

  8. 5 things I think journalism students need to know about technology — Thoughts on Media — Medium

    Good rules for lots of students and workers whose jobs come anywhere close to the internet. (via Russell Davies)

  9. Feedbin Notifier

    I can imagine using this if I had an Apple Watch - alerts based on RSS feed items, matching your criteria.

  10. BMW i3: corporate strategy dream that ends in a nightmare? | Anand Babu | LinkedIn

    A look at how the i3, and the DriveNow service, suffers from its terrible software and service design - the car’s fine, range aside. It’s fascinating to see the car industry changing, or trying to. (via @cityofsound)

  11. jcalazan/ansible-django-stack

    An Ansible playbook: Django, Postgres, Vagrant, Ubuntu 14.04, tested with DigitalOcean. Promising.

  12. Easy Django Deployments with Ansible - Technically Voracious

    A very simple, apparently, Ansible playbook for deploying a Django site to something like DigitalOcean.

  13. Sync/Backup workshop at Redecentralize Conference

    A nice list of personal, non-commercial, backup/sync tools, and some thoughts. Like Francis, I think a very friendly layer on top of git could be amazing.

  14. First, Let’s Get Rid of All the Bosses | The New Republic

    On Zappos’ weird non-organisational organisation. Sounds like a nightmare. (via @tomtaylor a while back)

  15. How Trigger Warnings Are Hurting Mental Health on Campus - The Atlantic

    Fascinating. Things like this, and the behaviours and attitudes amplified by social media, make me wonder what the world will be like when today’s 20-year-olds are in charge. (via @preoccupations)

  16. High Paddington - Sergei Kadleigh, 1952 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

    A brochure about a plan to house 8,000 people in 30-storey towers over Paddington Goods Yard in London.

  17. Play Button iTunes Patch | The Bit Guru

    This was incredibly useful - stop iTunes opening whenever you press Play on the Apple remote. Why would it do that?! Except this patch no longer works on El Capitan.

  18. code like you don’t have the time (tecznotes)

    Some good stuff about how to run, maintain and work on projects when the time available is intermittent. I think the bit at the end about “stick to a language’s standard library wherever possible” is important, difficult and perhaps rarely considered.

  19. Going “Write-Only”

    This goes… a bit far, but I still like reading about people’s strategies for disconnecting themselves from some or all of the internet. (via Interconnected)

  20. Reading Right-to-Left | booktwo.org

    James Bridle on form. “I know people don’t read books like they used to, and they don’t think like they used to, but I struggle to care. … I’m feeling more sure of [the internet’s] cultural value and legacy, and more assertive about stating it.” Also, that reading a landscape right-to-left stuff.

  21. Rev Dan Catt - Building shutdownability, closing down Contributoria the nice way.

    A nice write-up of a nice way to shut down a website. Lovely to see people doing things this way.

  22. ITUNES TERMS AND CONDITIONS: The Graphic Novel

    Very good. And even only recognising a handful of the comic artists copied, it’s great just as an example of how many different ways you can draw a black-and-white comic. (via @yoz)

  23. McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: An Interactive Guide to Ambiguous Grammar.

    A nice step-by-step transformation of a sentence from active to passive voice (which I’m rubbish at identifying). (via Kottke)

  24. Russell Davies: Electric Coast to Coast

    A lovely write-up and nice daily photos of his walk.

  25. Ask Culture and Guess Culture

    I’ve a feeling I’ve read something like this before, but it’s still good. On why some people are comfortable asking for things they might not get, while others find this rude and awkward. (via Stellar)

  26. Histography - Timeline of History

    Nice explorable timeline of different categories of things pulled from Wikipedia. A few annoying interface things, inevitably, but fascinating. (via Kottke)

  27. Extended Date Time Format (Library of Congress)

    Creating a spec for dates, including uncertain dates, approximate dates, unkown parts of dates, dates with years beyond (+/-)9999, seasons.

  28. Who’s On First · Mapzen

    On making, basically, a database of places. You don’t need to understand the technical details to get a sense of the huge difficulties in translating these odd human concepts into something more computery. From August 2015. (via @simonw)

  29. Code highlighting for Keynote presentations

    Surprisingly painless and useful. Which isn’t to say entirely painless, but less than expected.

  30. Reverse engineering a wireless thermostat

    I don’t understand this but I still loved reading it. Jolly clever.