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  1. Journal of Design and Science

    New, free, online journal from the MIT Media Lab. Kevin Slavin, Neti Oxman, Joi Ito, Danny Hillis. Seems good, although a little awkward to read on an iPad at the moment. Design and technology, eh?

  2. Stefan Collini · Who are the spongers now? · LRB 21 January 2016

    It’s probably only because I’m not involved in higher education, and don’t have children heading towards it, that I find reading things like this, about the government’s current and future plans, enjoyable, like dystopian fiction.

  3. Multistage environments with Ansible – Ross Tuck

    I don’t need think I need this kind of setup right now, but in case I do in future… (via Infovore)

  4. Setting up Django with Nginx, Gunicorn, virtualenv, supervisor and PostgreSQL - Michał Karzyński

    Nice, clear description. Part two shows how to run multiple Django apps on the Nginx server.

  5. Mythbusters - Richard Corbett

    “Facts and fiction about Britain in Europe”

  6. Clive James: how did the BBC’s War And Peace measure up? | Television & radio | The Guardian

    Nice comparison, not only of the series compared to the book, but also previous screen versions. If only all TV reviewing was as good.

  7. A Modern Python Development Toolchain · Chris Krycho

    Nice clear summary. I’ve never used pyenv but looks like I should. (via Tom Taylor)

  8. Taylor Single-Pleat Trouser Navy Military Twill by Epaulet | Epaulet New York

    Look quite nice I think. For future reference. Available in other colours. (via Put This On)

  9. AOL Search

    Using user search data released by AOL in 2006, a day-by-day “story” using one anonymous woman’s daily search queries.

  10. How To Deploy Multiple PHP Applications using Ansible on Ubuntu 14.04 | DigitalOcean

    A rare example of deploying multiple sites to one server with Ansible.

  11. bee-keeper/aws-ansible-django-deployment - Shell

    Looks like a good example of Ansible for deploying a Django project on AWS and Vagrant.

  12. Australian Ruby on Rails developers blog: Ansible (Real Life) Good Practices |

    Mainly for the tip about the “Vault Pseudo leaf encryption”.

  13. 6 practices for super smooth Ansible experience by Maxim Chernyak

    More Ansible tips. Like him I’ve been a bit frustrated that setting up a Vagrant box feels too different to setting up a real server, when you want them to be as similar as possible.

  14. Slow German - Lerne alles über Deutschland!

    A podcast about Germany, in German, but spoken slowly and clearly to help with learning.

  15. A Visit to the Treasure Vaults

    Some good stuff about how Kodak was often too early with digital camera technology, not too late, and was no good at marketing it.

  16. Development Environments with Vagrant and Ansible · Daniel Groves

    Saving some useful examples. Includes Django too.

  17. Securing a Server with Ansible · Ryan Eschinger Consulting

    Saving some useful examples.

  18. David A. Broad’s daily journal - From 1983 to today.

    Someone posting their own personal diary online, day-by-day, thirty years on.

  19. Discover Weekly Archive by hansjuergenbardenhagen - IFTTT

    “Every Monday, this Recipe will automatically add the 30 tracks on your Discover Weekly playlist to a personal Discover Weekly Archive playlist.” (via @tomtaylor)

  20. AMBER

    WordPress plugin and Drupal module for saving copies of pages that your site links to, in case they disappear. (via @mathowie)

  21. ‘We’re not leaving this bar until we’ve come up with such a great idea that I can’t sack you”

    Transcript of Tony Ageh at The Story Conference 2014. Really good, on advertising, The [Guardian] Guide, iPlayer.

  22. h5bp/server-configs-nginx: Nginx HTTP server boilerplate configs

    Looks like some handy examples.

  23. threadbase - T-shirts Unravelled

    Great analysis of hundreds of US T-shirts to see how they vary in size. (via Stellar)

  24. Learning JavaScript Design Patterns

    I’m finding this (free, online) book very useful; exactly the kind of thing I struggle with how to do better.

  25. They don’t tax free time (Monevator)

    A good post and loads of comments - lots of people talking about working less to avoid going into the higher tax bracket.

  26. Software Engineering for Industry by softengindustry

    Mostly for the nice way of handling an online reading group - a Twitter account, a Slack channel, and a GitHub repository for documents, suggested reading, etc. (via @tomstuart)

  27. Feature.js

    Simple, lightweight alternative to Modernizr. (via Adactio)

  28. Home - London’s Silent Cinemas

    “It documents the early lives of over 700 cinemas across London and its suburbs” from 1906 to around 1930. The map’s really good.

  29. Ghostweather R&D Blog: Teaching a Semester of D3.js

    On teaching D3.js to journalism students with no JavaScript experience. I can barely imagine.

  30. How the Web Works: A Primer for Newcomers to Web Development (or anyone, really) | Preethi Kasireddy

    Looks like a good intro to the kinds of things many of us have as a mental model and take for granted. (via Adactio)