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I love personal annual report season. Nicholas Felton's (feltron.com) and Jehiah's are the two that I've been looking at the longest. The amount of work that goes into these — bein…

I think this is a beautifully expressed thought: "… as soon as I saw 'the slow web movement,' I assigned my own meaning to it. Because it’s a great name, and great names are like k…

I would always rather see a text tutorial than a screencast.

Nice. It does seem like one of the lighter-weight Python web frameworks might fit in better with the overall theme of this intro, and Flask is a great choice. I thought about doing…

Note: In Python 2.6+, you can just `import json` instead of needing to install and import simplejson.

I'm still confused. I'm neither an iOS nor and Android developer, so maybe this is not a confusing situation to them. But: > What we mean by single backend is you can have one back…

Kind of strange title, to me. I don't know why anyone would ever create separate server-side backends for different mobile platforms. I guess this just means that this company is p…

"We do not have any data for your browser, so we can’t give your browser a score." Chrome 16.0.904.0

Most of this went right over my head, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. I'm endlessly fascinated by Haskell.

Maybe it's just because I read this before I looked at it, but I agree.

> _I think this is the current problem with mobile web apps today; too many are trying to feel native. Instead try to make it feel smooth and responsive, as a web app._ I think thi…

I think Microsoft owns the trademark for the word "Windows". http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/en/us/IntellectualPrope...

That's a pretty good approach. I guess the main drawback is that the git commit hash will change far more often than the contents of most of the static files, though, right?

Ahhh, thanks for the details. The only solution I could think of involved writing out a dict like you're describing and using a template helper to look up the modified asset filena…

I like this approach to static assets, where each file's name is changed to include the hash of the file's contents on deployment. But I've never implemented it myself, because I c…

Likewise curious. Seems like that should be addressed in the README.

To me, it does look like fair use. But I'm not a lawyer. I found this argument pretty compelling, though: http://mrgan.tumblr.com/post/6840184364/hand-pixelated "That cover is NOT …

"and how 'reflection' is way simpler than any other language" I've never heard this claim made, and it has been a long time since I've actually used PHP in any meaningful way. Care…

He's referring to the Lobster free web font, which is showing up on more and more sites these days: http://www.google.com/webfonts/family?family=Lobster&sub...

The big downside of these (for me) is that they don't let me use the great bash completion that git (optionally) provides.

The title is hyperbole (I'm sure that I've written much, much worse algorithms, many times), but the breakdown of Fibonacci sequence algorithms is really enjoyable.

"iTunes for your git repos" is a great way to describe some of this software. Well said.