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  1. alphagov/prototyping

    GDS’s Jekyll-based prototypes for services.

  2. Limits to Growth was right. New research shows we’re nearing collapse | Cathy Alexander and Graham Turner | Comment is free | theguardian.com

    The “Business As Usual” scenario is looking accurate, 42 years on, although we haven’t yet seen if we reach the turning points, which will be the real (unpleasant) test. (via @agpublic)

  3. Extract Images and HTML from the Safari cache folder

    Can expand old Mac IE WAFF web page archive files, among other things. (via @mildlydiverting)

  4. CSS Guidelines (2.1.3) – High-level advice and guidelines for writing sane, manageable, scalable CSS

    An extensive styleguide for writing CSS by Harry Roberts. (via @mattpointblank)

  5. The Online Photographer: Finally, I Get To Say THANK YOU

    This brought happy tears to my eyes. A nice guy moving to a bigger house, with better office space, because he works hard on a good blog.

  6. Barbican - Wall & Floor Tiles | Fired Earth

    A tile range named after the Barbican with styles named after local streets. Note: All Barbican flats must (officially) be carpeted.

  7. Barbican: A Unique Walled City Within The City | gail borthwick - Academia.edu (PDF)

    A dissertation (no idea what for) about the Barbican. Some good history and old plans, photos, etc.

  8. Medium’s CSS is actually pretty f***ing good. — Medium

    On creating Medium’s CSS style guide. Really good. I’d love to read more things like this. (via Tom Taylor)

  9. Jared Spool’s answer to What is the current market hourly rate (contract) for a great designer who can design (visual/ux/product) and develop award-winning user interfaces? - Quora

    “…you’re looking for someone who is such an outlier in the industry that you’ll pay whatever rate they demand.” (via Stellar)

  10. The Real Harlem by Darryl Pinckney | The New York Review of Books

    On the changing faces of Harlem over the decades. Gentrification etc, how it’s never a clear, simple phenomenon.

  11. A Passage from Hong Kong by Maya Jasanoff | The New York Review of Books

    About shipping containers, the ships and a journey on one of the ships. A good read.

  12. Turkey Goes Out of Control by Christopher de Bellaigue | The New York Review of Books

    I’ve vaguely followed news stories about Turkey but had somehow missed Gülen and his apparently vast, behind-the-scenes, apparently cult-like following.

  13. Dan Golding — The End of Gamers

    This change in gaming seems long and slow and so I’m just picking out this one article to save as an almost arbitrary, but appropriately titled, marker for when gaming, and gamers, changed, (via @GreatDismal)

  14. Centre for the Study of Existential Risk

    In Cambridge, UK, horizon scanning for high impact, low probability events. (via the Guardian)

  15. Microaggression and Management — about work — Medium

    Some of the common things managers might do that reinforce inequality and hierarchy. (Not that I’ve experienced much of this, thankfully.)

  16. Nextdoor | What is address verification?

    Nextdoor, private online networks for (US) neighbourhoods sounds interesting. Here’s how they verify a new user’s address. I like the postcard method.

  17. Owen Hatherley reviews ‘Guide to the Architecture of London’ by Edward Jones and Christopher Woodward · LRB 21 August 2014

    I’m not sure this makes me want to read the book under review, but the review itself is a good read if you’re into London and/or architecture.

  18. Tariff Notices - GOV.UK

    An amazing list of very specific things that HMRC have had to classify for import and export purposes. “fireside companion set”, “article having a shape of a cylinder”, “stress balls, spectacles, goggles and the like”, etc.

  19. Git merge vs. rebase

    Some things to try and remember next time I’m working on a thing with others. (via Infovore)

  20. Old Town Clothing - classic British workwear - Holt, Norfolk, England

    Someone suggested to Put This On that this is wear Monty Don gets his clothes from.

  21. Monty Don: Dirty dressing | Life and style | The Observer

    On the clothes he wears for gardening, from 2005. (via Put This On)

  22. Exquisite Tweets from @nraford

    “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by PowerPoints, starving hysterical for content…” Noah Radford spent two hours recasting ‘Howl’ over Twitter. (originally collected by @debcha)

  23. The American Room — The Message — Medium

    Paul Ford on the rooms in (American) straight-to-camera, self-filmed YouTube videos and much more, very good. (via Kottke)

  24. Suck: Daily - Nothing for Nothing

    1996, on giving away content for free.

  25. Game of Thrones - The New Yorker

    About the design of aeroplane seats. Interesting. The firm it focuses on is on Worship Street on the Shoreditch/City borders.

  26. The Disruption Machine - The New Yorker

    Taking apart Christensen’s ‘The Innovator’s Dilemma’ and everything that goes with it. Very good.

  27. How Chipotle transformed itself by upending its approach to management – Quartz

    I don’t know why I love articles about the management of restaurants, and restaurant chains, so much.

  28. Pre to postmortem: the inside story of the death of Palm and webOS | The Verge

    I love this kind of thing, looks at the success and/or failure of technology platforms and products from the inside.

  29. A Brief History of Money - IEEE Spectrum

    Seemed like a good overview.

  30. The Case for Reparations - The Atlantic

    This was good. More about the case for having a discussion about the case for reparations. It was more affecting to me than, say, ‘Twelve Years a Slave’, which was too easily put in the “that’s just history” or “one person’s experience” buckets.