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Finding the largest tables on MySQL Server
Came in handy for me today.
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Identifying the same content on multiple services
As the social web has grown, we find ourselves, more and more, cross-posting content to different service. For example, when I post a photo to Instagram, I often cross-post it to Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, and Flickr. In the process of developing this latest version of JeffCroft.com (which pulls in my content from several social networks), I found myself wishing there were a way to identify the same content in multiple places.
Each place that photo goes adds some metadata to it. I wanted to collect all of this metadata and display the photo as one item on JeffCroft.com that, for example, included both how many Flickr comments the photo got and how many Instragram likes it got — and include links to this piece of content on all the networks it exists on.
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Dillinger: the last Markdown editor, ever.
I write all my blog posts in Markdown and may consider using this to do so. But beyond that, this is just a really great (and open source!) example of how modern web apps are written. Built on node.js, you can run it remotely at this URL, or install your own, local copy.
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Shit White Guys Say…to Asian Girls
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The tools I use: Mac
I’d love to have something meaty and heady to write about today, but I’ve got nothing. So, because some folks have asked for it, and because Kenny did it, how about a simple list of the tools I use on my Mac everyday and couldn’t live without? I consider myself a bit of a software minimalist—I don’t use a lot of the geeky tools many web pros do. I try to only have what I think I really need. Note that this only includes native Mac software, not web apps I use regularly. Here goes:
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What it means to be “responsive”
Over the past couple of years, I’ve been tagged with a reputation of being somehow an opponent to the technique Ethan Marcotte coined “Responsive Web Design” in his seminal A List Apart article of the same name. Ethan defines Responsive Web Design as a technique that incorporates fluid grids, flexible images, and media queries to deliver experiences that accommodate today’s multi-device world, and he has vigorously defended his brand name against any suggestions that there are other ways (besides fluid grids, flexible images, and media queries) to achieve the same effective result.
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SOPA and The New Gatekeepers
I’m with Mike, here: what’s interesting about SOPA and PIPA to me is not so much the bills, but the fact that our governments are set up in a way that such bills could even ever get drafted. It’s patently absurd.
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Ben Ward on browsers today
“If I mark up a column heading in my code, why won’t the browser allow me to sort the table? To this day, I’m still not sure that there’s a good answer to that.” Some damn good thoughts about browsers from Ben Ward.
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Forgot to post this last night.
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I could eat this dish every day for the rest of my life.
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Party Rock Anthem - Literal MSPaint
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Critics of Seattle in snow: Shut the hell up
Alternate headline: “Stop making fun of us Northwesterners for being pussies.”
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But if you bring minors, we will totally overserve the shit out of you.
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Twitter Buys Summify, Gives Everyone a Reason to Use It
Mike Davidson on the Summify acquisition — but more importantly, on the future of news delivery in general. A great read.
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Building Twitter Bootstrap
On one hand, I’m thrilled to see this ALA piece on Twitter Bootstrap, because I think Bootstrap is extremely well-done, and because it lends some credibility to my original 2007 concept of CSS Frameworks, which a lot of traditionalists shunned hard. On the other hand, Mark Otto’s article is yet another example of my complaint that ALA is focusing on the same things in 2012 that they were in 2007.
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Designing The Well-Tempered Web
I get a little bit hard for any article that compares web design to music theory, and this one from Rob Flaherty certainly fits the bill.
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Forest, trees, and acko.net
Few people can take the fun out of something quicker than an over-zealous user experience nerd.
Over the weekend, I came across Steven Wittens’ blog acko.net. If you read Steven’s About Page, you’ll discover that he’s a programmer who likes to “build and design cool pieces of technology.” And that’s exactly what he’s done with the latest version of his personal site. The entire UI is done in 3D, using Javascript, CSS, and not a single image. In order to build it, he had to first build his own 3D scene editor for Three.js. The end result is a mind-bending UI that not only animates perspective changes on each individual page as you scroll, but also neatly uses the HTML5 pushState API to animate changes from page to page. The whole thing is responsive, and gracefully degrades for smaller screens and browsers without support for the 3D goodness.
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Aaron Mentele Mobile Safari & Media Queries asset download tests
Aaron did some terrific tests with regard to how Mobile Safari downloads assets (images, backgrounds, etc.) on elements which are hidden via media queries. Also, don’t miss his follow up piece.
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How I Learnt enough Python/Django to be Dangerous in One Month
Nice piece describing the process one person took to understanding the basic of Python and Django.
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Arturo Sandoval!
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SOPA: Before Solving a Problem, Make Sure You’ve Got the Right Problem
Tim O’Reilly on SOPA: “In the entire discussion, I’ve seen no discussion of credible evidence of this economic harm. There’s no question in my mind that piracy exists, that people around the world are enjoying creative content without paying for it, and even that some criminals are profiting by redistributing it. But is there actual economic harm?” Exactly. Piracy is real, but the economic impact of it is up for serious debate.
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Home away from home.
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Snowtography.
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A rare Seattle snow.
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Shan's Kelly Kapowski shirt pretty much makes this picture.
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Two in the mouth, no hands. Someone taught these two well.
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Skee-ball!
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The sky turned crazy pink about 4:45 today.
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Android Doubles Down on Design
Khoi Vinh on Android’s recent efforts to not only embrace design, but engender a design culture where one doesn’t currently exist.
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On Smashing Magazine’s super-responsive design
This week, Smashing Magazine, a truly great resource for web designers and front-end developers, launched a comprehensive redesign of their site, headed up by the ultra-talented Elliot Jay Stocks. Predictably, the site is beautiful, thoughtfully laid out, well-executed, and responsive. Like, really responsive.
In fact, the site has six — count ‘em, six — unique layouts, split by five breakpoints. It’s quite an impressive feat to have built a design that adapts in so many ways based on the size of the viewport it’s displayed in. But I can’t help but wonder if we’ve gone over the top, here.
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Winter in Seattle
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What happens when we ask Huber to save us a table.
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In 2012, let’s stop talking web design and start talking product design
On Christmas Eve, I said on Twitter:
“My hope for 2012 is that some of the old guard of well-respected web gurus stop talking HTML and CSS and start talking serious development. I love the way many of the old guard write and evangelize, but I’m tired of discussing basically the same stuff we were in 2006.”
I wasn’t specifically referring to Jeffrey Zeldman, but he (somewhat arrogantly) assumed I was, and responded with a sarcastic, “And a merry Christmas to you, sir.”
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Playing with Snapseed. Easily the best iOS photo editing app I've found.
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