Links
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Favicon Generator for all platforms: iOS, Android, PC/Mac…
Not beautiful, but very nicely done.
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Favicons, Touch Icons, Tile Icons, etc. Which Do You Need? | CSS-Tricks
This is both very handy and, if you scroll down to “Example #3: Support for everything” rather dispiriting. Can’t help thinking something’s gone wrong somewhere.
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How we manage design work in Pivotal Tracker - Pivotal Tracker
How Pivotal Labs use Pivotal Tracker to manage design work, as opposed to development work, in an agile process (much of it isn’t specific to Pivotal Tracker). (via @antimega)
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Development Aesthetics
Relentless images of and comment on the hoardings surrounding new developments, mostly in London.
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How to save a web page to the Internet Archive
Bookmarklet and Chrome extension. (via @textfiles)
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The Entrant’s Guide to The Automobile Industry | Asymco
Fascinating to realise quite how different the (mainly) US car industry is to so many other more dynamic, less consolidated ones. (via Daring Fireball)
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Gemnasium
“Parses your project’s dependencies and notifies you when new versions are released or they need to be updated.” For python, ruby, node, php, etc. (via @dracos)
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requires.io | Monitor your dependencies
“Monitors the requirements of your project and notify you whenever a dependency is outdated.” (via @mrchrisadams)
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There’s nothing sinister about Guardian stories going missing online | Open door | Comment is free | The Guardian
A bug in the automated rights system led to a lot of articles disappearing. Another one for the “transitory nature of the web” file.
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Shoegaze: An Oral History
What it says. Not *hugely* interesting to be honest.
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Hardware by the Numbers (Part 1: Team + Prototyping) — Medium
Four parts. I’m not overly fascinated by making hardware, but enjoy reading general starting/growing-a-business experience, even if it’s focused on making a business with the aim of exiting. (via Tom Taylor)
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A Year of Reflection — Today’s Office — Medium
Jan Chipchase on design studios, taking risks, his year of “creat[ing] the minimum viable process and infrastructure to be able to take on challenging projects that can have significant impact, and do good work.” (via @cityofsound)
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Home - Annotator - Annotating the Web
“An open-source JavaScript library to easily add annotation functionality to any webpage.” Used on hypothes.is.
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Handmade Leather Bags - Personally Hand Made by Henry Tomkins
Made in Exeter, can be customised.
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How to Write a Book in Three Days: Lessons from Michael Moorcock | Wet Asphalt
I spent a lot of teenage time reading these books. (via Boing Boing via Interconnected)
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Male pattern boldness
“I started sewing in 2009 and today make all my own clothes using mainly vintage patterns and vintage sewing machines.”
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TaylorTailor
“I’m on a mission to design and create my entire wardrobe from scratch. It’s going to take a while.” Also, bags.
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Waffle.io · Work Better on GitHub Issues
A nice columnlar front-end on to GitHub issues. Free for public repos.
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Learning to Make Your Own Clothes, Part Two
Tips and resources from two men who make their own clothes.
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Alievens
A guy in Belgium who makes his own shirts, trousers, jackets. (via Put This On)
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Best Work Backpack Finalists :: Third Annual Carry Awards
Some nice-looking backpacks there, which don’t look like you’re about to go hiking.
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All My Blogs Are Dead - The Awl
A writer on all the blogs and news sites he’s written for which no longer exist online. Paper magazines and newspapers ultimately have greater longevity. (via Waxy)
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zupamarket_en
Brutalist tower block paper cut-out models, with a set of London buildings. (via @cityofsound)
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Time Travel
Search for a URL and a date and this aggregates results from lots of different web archives.
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What the Web Said Yesterday - The New Yorker
On the Internet Archive, Brewster Kahle, and attempts to archive the web in general.
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Perma.cc
A way to create an archived copy of a page for citation purposes. T&Cs say “WE MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES, OR UNDERTAKINGS AS TO PERMANENCE OR THE DURATION OF PRESERVATION.” Brilliant.
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The Knowledge, London’s Legendary Taxi-Driver Test, Puts Up a Fight in the Age of GPS
This long, good article everyone linked to a while back is indeed long and good.
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Mr. Miller Doesn’t Go to Washington - Matt Miller - POLITICO Magazine
“A candidate’s memoir.” Being a candidate sounds like even less fun than I ever thought it would be.
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CABINET // Whitewood under Siege
Another good article I’ve finally caught up with via PaperLater. All about the big world of shipping pallets.
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The Ambush at Sheridan Springs — Medium
“How Gary Gygax Lost Control of Dungeons & Dragons.” Possibly more detailed than it needs to be, but a good read if you are/were into that. I was, as a teenager, entirely oblivious to every bit of this, even though I played D&D.