Google and HTTP
I share many of these concerns.
The web is huge. Even bigger than Google. I love that the web preserves all the work. I don’t think anyone has the right to change the web so they no longer work.
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Food for thought (process)
I love, love, love Sam’s comparison’s between cooking and front-end development.
We should embrace the tools we have access to and appreciate our ability to learn, but also realize that maybe a gas stove or a certain design tools might not be for everyone. We have to find what works for our cooking or designing/coding style or the project/meal at hand.
Life plus Linux: Look before you paste from a website to terminal
The (literally) hidden dangers of copying code snippets from the web and pasting them into the command line.
This cautionary tale backs up a small tip I heard for getting to understand how found code works: deliberately type it out instead of copying and pasting.
Let them paste passwords - NCSC Site
Ever been on one of those websites that doesn’t allow you to paste into the password field? Frustrating, isn’t it? (Especially if you use a password manager.)
It turns out that nobody knows how this ever started. It’s like a cargo cult without any cargo.
20 Years Ago Today
A lovely reminiscence from Matt on how he came to fall in love with the World Wide Web.
I really hope he posts this on his own site—it’ll be a shame when this disappears along with everything else being posted to Medium.
Old Weather: Whaling
A subset of one of my favourite sites on the web:
Explore the Arctic of the past from the deck of a whaling ship.
Choose your vessel and get transcribing.
Museum of Endangered Sounds
Sounds from our collective technological past.
(I’ll look past the fact that the sound labelled “ZX Spectrum” is using an image of an Amstrad PCP 464)
The Pastry Box Project | 8 August 2013, baked by Viviana Doctorovich
Empathy is for everyone:
No matter how many times I go through this journey, it never stops surprising me how easy it is to lose perspective in the heat of a project and forget that there is no difference between a user, a client and a designer. It shouldn’t be so hard to remember that no matter the title, we’re all just people trying to get things done.
A nice reminder from Viv.
The Pastry Box Project | 7 August 2013, baked by Karen McGrane
Preach it, Karen!
“Why would someone ever want to do that?” is the wrong question. It doesn’t matter why they want to do it. The fact is that people do. The right question, the one that we all should be asking, is “how can we make a better experience for them?”
Forget Your Past – Timothy Allen | Photography | Film
A trip to Buzludzha in Bulgaria, a derelict monument to an abandoned ideology.
Dear Photograph
Atemporality can be very moving.
Experimental Firefox and Chrome extensions to copy and paste contacts — Glenn Jones
More brilliant and useful code from Glenn: copy and paste contact details from one URL into a form on another URL.
BACK TO THE FUTURE : Irina Werning - Photographer
Revisiting and recreating old family photos.
?C ?V Character
A very useful tool for getting character entities (use the "as HTML" option) in one click.
The Amateur Gourmet - Cooking My Trip Part Two: Rigatoni with Cherry Tomato Sauce
I keep coming back to this recipe. Simple and delicious.