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Have a look at Scalingo, it's a good mix of simplicity and maturity. https://scalingo.com/blog/heroku-alternative-europe-scalingo...

I see that you are quoting in extenso News articles (I read one from the DailyMail). How did you secure the copyright issues of reproducing full articles ?

We'll see what comes out of ALTEDIC - https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/lds/items/797961/en

Very exciting project, specially the support for custom document schemas. If the authors are around, I'd love to hear what was their thinking regarding implementing focus and selec…

When you are full-time employed, remotely, by a european company, and living in another european country, does anyone know : — do you set yourself up as a freelance consultant, and…

For instance, one day at school he was working with the student theatre. All week he had been struggling to produce the right sound effects, but it just wasn’t coming together. Eve…

Yes! Ted Nelson talks about this in this amazing and inspiring Google Talk video from 2006. He talks about the rise of packet-based networking, and how the future will be content-c…

Super interesting. How does this compare to Xopus? https://xopus.com/ Of course, Xopus is closed source, so that's a big difference already.

Similar to http://chromatic.io Nicely done.

I'm not worried about being under surveillance. I'm neither interesting, nor engaged in anything interesting. That's probably the feeling of most people. Martin Fowler wrote an ins…

In the long run yes, when they have revenue. But they mention: But then, one day when I came back to their website, I saw that they had added a minimum fee of €100 to their plan, a…

The really crazy thing is that we had great proposals for much better layout systems, and they were rejected: - First, the model with "springs and struts", employed by all major na…

* Documentation provided as a monolithic 600 page PDF.

Flexbox is the most underrated CSS modules out there. Making flexible layouts based on the size of the viewport without it is either a major pain or flat out impossible without res…

Excellent, really cool. On OSX, this is what AppleScript and Automator should have been. Would it be possible to tap into GUI applications via OSX UI Scripting, and maybe mirroring…

It also breaks two OSX defaults: - spacebar on a highlighted item should select it - the select menu should open on mousedown, not mouseup. Otherwise, it's a very nice piece of wor…

The idea of compound images is really interesting, although it would require an extra HTTP request to fetch the hight-DPI portion of the image. But maybe less of a problem over SPD…

No, the distinction of device pixels vs. CSS pixels predates the first "Retina" iPhone. The distinction existed in all browsers supporting full page zoom, including the Safari on t…

I'm afraid this boat has long sailed. The "pixel" term is in the CSS 2.1 Spec. It's set in stone. Personally I've made peace with it. I say either "CSS pixels" or "device pixels", …

Very nice. Better discoverability than http://dochub.io/ that is search only.

Interesting service, and very well executed. The one problem that I have with pictograms-as-fonts is anti-aliasing. The designers that I work with spend hours to make their icons a…