Weekend Reader – blogging, twitter, marketing, funny, lifehacks
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- [BLOGGING] Its about respect, winextra.com
- When do you link to someone? When you’re talking about them and want to discuss their viewpoint.
- [BLOGGING] Ten FriendFeed Visitors Beats 1,000 StumbleUpons Any Day, bhc3.wordpress.com
- Why Friend Feed is a better source of traffic than Digg and StumbleUpon
- [CODE] Business of Software Forum FAQ, discuss.joelonsoftware.com
- Good info for MicroISV developers.
- [CODE] Why I’m a better software developer than you, ytechie.com
- Hey, that describes me to a tee. :)
- [CULTURE] Shift Happens, slideshare.net
- Excellent slide show showing how the world is changing and the new culture that is emerging.
- [FACEBOOK] FaceBook In Reality, youtube.com, via:codinghorror.com
- Funny video from BBC comedy group
- [GOOGLE] Share anything. Anytime. Anywhere., googlereader.blogspot.com
- Google Reader Shares might have just become the delicious killer for me.
- [ITUNES] harmony, thirteen23.com, via:lifehacker.com
- Automatic cover art downloader for Windows
- [LIFEHACKS] Life Hack Misnomer, thegrowinglife.com
- From the article: ” Repurposing your shoe holder to organize your gadgets isn’t hacking life, it’s hacking a shoe holder. Likewise, utilities used to synchronize files don’t upgrade your life, they upgrade your computer.”
- [MARKETING] 5 Great Examples of Guerilla Marketing Gone Wrong, weburbanist.com
- Except, has the guerrilla marketing gone wrong if people are still talking about it?
- [PRODUCTIVITY] The Joy of Freeing Up Mental RAM, caffeinatedcoder.com
- Intro to Getting To Done
- [SOCIALMEDIA] Are we building Universities or Amphitheaters?, weblog.raganwald.com
- Because getting your attention is more valuable than giving your life value.
- [SOFTWARE] MoMB | The Museum of Modern Betas, momb.socio-kybernetics.net
- Looking for new stuff to try out? This has a comprehensive list of betas that are available.
- [STARTUPS] From Messes To Successes, avc.blogs.com
- Applies very well to the perception people have of Twitter
- [STARTUPS] The Coolest Business Plan Ever, ricksegal.typepad.com
- Microsoft Office metadata strikes again
- [TECH] What’s Mainstream Technology? Ask Joe Average, The Spouse, Grandma, and Dave Letterman, webomatica.com
- How to figure out if tech is mainstream.
- [TWITTER] Using Twitter to track your FedEx, UPS or DHL Shipments, technofriends.in
- Neat trick, twitter @trackthis supports FedEx, UPS, USPS, DHL tracking codes to send you direct messages whenever your packages change languages.
- [TWITTER] Who Should I Follow? | Twitter Friend Recommendations, whoshouldifollow.com
- REALLY excellent tool for suggesting people to follow
- [WEB2.0] Web 2.point.Mac: Developing software on Apple computers, compsci.ca
- Many of the web2.0 companies out there are using Macs as a developer platform.
- [WORDPRESS] 13 of the best WordPress plugins, davidairey.com
- Plugins for Self-hosted
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Delicious Links – 17 links – wordpress, webdesign, productivity, google, search
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- [BLOGGING] 7 Reasons Why your Website Won’t Last Without Analytics, makeuseof.com
- This is in my “top 5 beefs with wordpress.com”. Blogging without Google Analytics sucks because you’re never able to self correct.
- [BLOGGING] How to Create a Rock-Solid Tagline That Truly Works, copyblogger.com
- Create your tagline by thinking about the problems you solve.
- [CSS] 960 Grid System, 960.gs, via:technospot.net
- Looks like Blueprint CSS, with more polish.
- [GREASEMONKEY] Google Gears + Greasemonkey to take Wikipedia offline, code.google.com
- Proof of concept on how to use Greasemonkey with Google Gears. I want to try this out, I think the combination of Gears, jQuery and Greasemonkey could lead to some awesome scripts.
- [LIFEHACKS] 10 Ways History’s Finest Kept Their Focus at Work, lifedev.net
- Look at the productivity tips of some of histories greatest figures.
- [LIFEHACKS] 12 Rules for Getting a Grip on Massive Email, problogger.net
- How to manage too much email.
- [MEMES] I Can Has Rezearch Papar?, cylegage.com
- Long article discussion internet culture, memes and anonymity.
- [MYBLOGLOG] FOAFster — Mashable FOAF, from MyBlogLog, kentbrewster.com
- Ok, this might be the mashup that gets me using MyBlogLog again.
- [PYTHON] Code Like a Pythonista: Idiomatic Python, python.net, via:benjamingolub.com
- Python style guide by the maker of Docutils.
- [RUBY] Announcing Ninja-Patching!, avdi.org
- How to patch code so that it will randomly kill other code.
- [SCIFI] Brasyl, Halting State, The Last Colony and Rollback: The 2008 Hugo Voters Electronic Editions, scalzi.com
- How to obtain electronic copies of this years Hugo award nominees.
- [SEO] I’m Getting Pretty Tired of Startup Advice that Doesn’t Include Any Mention of SEO, seomoz.org
- Most web startups are dumb about getting direct search referrals.
- [TWITTER] I’m Over Twitter, threeminds.organic.com
- From the article: ” With Twitter, each of us shouts into the void to the community at large, rather than taking the risk of speaking directly to one another.”
- [WORDPRESS] A Proposal for Theme Management in WordPress, themeshaper.com
- Make the footer easily customizable.
- [WORDPRESS] WordPress 2.5 usability review, noscope.com, via:archgfx.net
- Discussion of what the WP2.5 admin panel does wrong.
- [WORKHACKS] Meetronome, meetronome.com
- Online meeting minute generator that also calculates the average cost of the meeting
Delicious Links – 13 links – programming, lifehacks, productivity, geek, games
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- [BLOGGING] 10 Reasons Why Bloggers Hate Blogging, geeksaresexy.net, via:chipsquips.com
- because it’s a beast that never stops being hungry.
- [BLOGGING] Comparing Six Ways to Identify Top Blogs in Any Niche, readwriteweb.com, via:twitter.com
- …and they all suck. How do you find good resources around a niche?
- [BLOGGING] Scaling Yourself, chrisbrogan.com, via:problogger.net
- Some good thoughts on time management when you’re working for yourself / by yourself
- [EMAIL] How to Stop Checking Email on the Evenings and Weekends, lifehacker.com
- tips for email management
- [GAMERS] Criterion Collection: Xbox 360 Games You MUST Own, thegamereviews.com, via:digg.com
- List of the best Xbox 360 games.
- [GEEK] George Lucas Will Sell Your Dreams For Candy, io9.com
- Star Wars merchandising that never was. High quality artwork.
- [MOVIES] 2008 Movie Sequel Guide, geeksofdoom.com, via:digg.com
- A geek’s guide to the sequels.
- [MUSIC] Sources For Free & Legal Music, seanpaune.com
- List of free sites with legal music downloads
- [REPUTATION] What happened to me and the new girl (or: –The girl who cried Webmaster–), joeydevilla.com, via:weblog.raganwald.com
- Ugh. Reminder that there are crazy people out there.
- [RUBY] Do not learn Ruby, webmat.wordpress.com, via:ruby.reddit.com
- The downside of embracing Ruby
- [WEBDESIGN] Internet ’96, msu.edu, via:digg.com
- A look at major corporate websites in 1996.
- [WORKHACKS] Five steps to enlightened expectations, blogs.techrepublic.com.com, via:weblog.raganwald.com
- How to manage expectations
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- [GREASEMONKEY] The Pirate Bay + Rotten Tomatoes = Crazy Delicious
This script will create links to Rotten Tomatoes while browsing the Pirate Bay.
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Delicious Links – 20 links – blogging, programming, ruby, photography, copyright
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- [BLOGGING] Feel Free to Steal My Content, zenhabits.net
- ZenHabits goes open source
- [BLOGGING] My next book: the story of blogs, wordyard.com
- Scott Rosenberg’s next book is the history of blogs
- [BLOGGING] What Are Your Anti-Memes?, smoothspan.wordpress.com
- Some thoughts on the type of articles one of my fav tech bloggers usually skips over.
- [CODE] Let The System Design Itself, gilesbowkett.blogspot.com
- From the article: ” 1) runs all the tests, 2) contains no duplication, 3) expresses every idea you want to express, 4) minimal number of classes and methods. When you work with these rules, you pay attention only to micro-design matters.”
- [CODE] Rich Programmer Food, steve-yegge.blogspot.com, via:news.ycombinator.com
- Why programmers need to know how to write a compiler. I really enjoyed reading this one.
- [CODE] Valued Lessons: Garlic Programmers for Silver Code?, valuedlessons.com, via:news.ycombinator.com
- How can you measure programmer productivity when the biggest factor is the code base they are working on?
- [COMMENTS] Reading Apptitude Questions rather than Captcha, lemurcatta.org
- Interesting idea: prove that the reader read the article before posting a comment.
- [GAMERS] 18 Undiscovered Websites Every Gamer Should Know, dailybits.com
- Some cool stuff in there, like the indie game awards
- [LIFEHACKS] Let Me Save You $40: Here’s How to Be Happy, enfranchisedmind.com, via:codinghorror.com
- 7 things you can change about your outlook to life that will greatly improve your enjoyment of it.
- [LIFEHACKS] New RescueTime Goals and Alerts Actually Helps Rescue your Time, blog.rescuetime.com
- RescueTime now has goal tracking so you can limit yourself to checking feeds for only three hours a week, for example.
- [LIFEHACKS] The Five Browser Shortcuts Everyone Should Know, codinghorror.com
- Have a better experience surfing the web with these shortcuts. There were a few I didn’t know.we
- [MEDIA] What My Kids Tell Me About The Future of Media, avc.blogs.com
- A look at how children consume mass media
- [PHOTOS] A Savvy Approach to Copyright Messaging, powazek.com
- Cool trick to add copyright notices to your photos without having to worry about people seeing them unless they’re trying to copy them.
- [PHOTOS] Namexif (Rename EXIF Photos), digicamsoft.com, via:noheat.com
- Rename your photos by date. Uses the info from your camera rather than the file date.
- [RAILS] 10 Alternative Ruby Web Frameworks, rbazinet.wordpress.com, via:lazycoder.com
- [RAILS] How to ruin a Rails project, dataconstellation.com, via:labnotes.org
- How many of these have you done?
- [RAILS] Ruby on Rails Handbook, railshandbook.com, via:virtualhosting.com
- Tons of cheatsheets and tutorials
- [RUBY] TreeTop, treetop.rubyforge.org, via:blog.zenspider.com
- ruby extension to make it easy to create new expression grammars
- [WORDPRESS] WordPress Plugin: Socialize Me!, blahblahtech.com, via:dailyblogtips.com
- When people come to your blog via a social bookmarking site, it will welcome them and prompt them to add you as a friend.
- [WRITING] That to This, randsinrepose.com
- 10 tips Rands learned that made him a better writer
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- Year in Review – Most Popular Posts of 2007
- Year in Review
- My Favorite Albums of 2007
- New Year’s Resolutions for 2008: release my “Best of” lists in the beginning of January, not at the end of January.
- Yahoo Pipe: Sub-Reddit Feed Filter
- Popular social bookmarking site Reddit has announced a great new feature: users can create their own sub-reddit. What does this mean in English? Users and communities can create their own social bookmarking sites around specific topics: blogging, wordpress, specific programming languages, etc but…
- How to Play Downloaded Videos on Your iPod, Xbox 360, or DVD Player
- I’ve been slumming through the support forums at answers.yahoo.com lately and this is a question I see come up often: how do I download a video and put it on my electronic device? More and more consumer electronics devices that can play videos, but that means we have to learn more about the big,…
- Delicious Links – 20 links – writing, programming, javascript, jquery, testing
- Tags: javascript, jquery, programming, writing
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- [PIPES] Filtered Technorati Recent Mentions
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Updated my script for identifying the most popular Greasemonkey scripts on userscripts.org
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Overtime Considered Harmful
(or I’m Too Lazy to Think of a Better Title)
In the past month I’ve worked over 100 hours of overtime to ensure that a project deadline was met when unforeseen issues put the entire project at risk. When you’re a high tech worker then this can happen often enough that it feels like a way of life. What I find strange is that I’ve caught myself bragging about the hours I’ve spent tied to my job. In what sick world should living off of food from Styrofoam containers and an intravenous espresso drip be considered an admirable accomplishment?
If anything it’s a sign of monumental failure in project scheduling, design, delegation or personal time management. Spending two thirds of my waking hours at work isn’t a sign of dedication, it’s a sign of screwed up priorities where I’m willing to push everything else in my life to the side to satisfy the SNAFU I find myself in. The sensible decision would be to get my resume in order and find a way out of this mess.
But like bad movies and bad relationships there’s a sickening desire to stick it out until the end. The sunk cost of time invested seems more valuable than the future cost of staying in this downward spiral. Despite having a university education with a strong background in numbers I can’t do the math and see that the grindstone of a doomed project damages my health and completely destroys my ability to respond to new opportunities. If I’m going to spend a significant portion of my life on work, shouldn’t it be something where that time has a chance at being rewarded?
If the project success depends on a Hail Mary pass to the end zone then chances are slim that things will turn out well for the project in the end. There is no room for heroes on large multi-team projects. For large projects success comes from putting in consistent effort over time and crossing your T’s and dotting your I’s. One last hard push to get it out the door isn’t a valid project management strategy. There is no doctor waiting in the sidelines with a chemical cocktail to induce labour.
I’m lucky that I don’t have children, because this isn’t a life blueprint I’d want to pass on to them. Success that comes from time stolen from the other aspects of your life isn’t success at all.
Interesting Links
- Overtime Considered Harmful by Basil Vandegriend
- I’d Consider That Harmful Too by Jeff Atwood
- Evidence Based Scheduling by Joel Spolsky
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- [CHARTS] Charts And Graphs: Modern Solutions | Developer’s Toolbox |
- Hola charts batman.
- (smashingmagazine.com 1639 86 800 )
- [COMICS] The Best Webcomics of 2004
- Links to multi-editor list of best of. Almost like a print anthology.
- (webcomicsreview.com 442 5 )
- [CODE] Evidence Based Scheduling
- Joel on Estimation
- (joelonsoftware.com 387 64 3 )
- [WRITING] How to turn off annoying MS Word Features
- I was going to write a guide like this, but I’m glad someone else beat me to it. THIS IS A MUST READ if you use MS Word for composing blog posts.
- (twoorthree.net 247 23 6 )
- [FACEBOOK] Enemybook
- Facebook app for marking who ISN’T your friend. Includes reasons such as “hooked up with my ex”.
- (enemybook.info 46 67 4 )
- [CODE] Visual Studio News Channel: Give Hanselman a Go!
- Visual Studio has an RSS aggregator with an audience of millions, but they only post items every few months… yet check hourly for updates.
- (secretgeek.net 3 )
- [STARTUPS] There Are No Lifejackets On This Boat
- Startups need to fire employees who haven’t bought in to the idea with passion. No room to hide.
- (instigatorblog.com 2 6 )
- [MICROPAYMENTS] Peter White – I have your forty bucks
- I want to pay for music I pirated on the Internet. How the hell do I do that?
- (ricksegal.typepad.com 2 2 20 )
- [LIFEHACKS] The Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity
- Very simple tips for freeing up your time for what you find is important.
- (blog.pmarca.com 100 22 )
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- inbound links – number of blogs who linked to it (max 100)
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Best of Feeds – 34 links – programming, google, lifehacks, ruby, funny
RSS feeds are like cookies (that are good enough for me). Best of Feeds is a weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet this week. They’re saved on delicious and stumbleupon and cross-posted to Twitter and Tumblr as they happen and then collected together on Saturdays. I don’t blog on the weekend so read these links instead.Subscribe to Internet Duct Tape to see this every week (or get it by email).
- [LIFEHACKS] The Printable CEO
- Collection of PDFs for task/hour tracking.
- (davidseah.com 949 100 7 )
- [BOOKMARKING] toread – an email-based bookmark service
- Simple service to use to track stuff ‘to read later’. They store the top 10 for each day. It’s like having an archive of the delicious popular list.
- (toread.cc 938 100 440 )
- [RUBY] The Little Book Of Ruby
- 85 page guide to the ruby language syntax, free ebook
- (sapphiresteel.com 492 38 28 )
- [CODE] Software Is Hard
- *Excellent* article about software estimation and Rosenberg’s Dreaming in Code
- (gamearchitect.net 449 68 15 )
- [STARTUPS] The Future of Web Startups
- Paul Graham on how web startups will start to be standardized and easy to do… which will change everything.
- (paulgraham.com 443 100 671 )
- [LIFEHACKS] Top 100 Productivity Blogs
- I’m not on the list, but many there’s a lot of great finds on here.
- (whitepapers.org 440 44 53 )
- [RUBY] Ferret – full text search engine
- I’m wondering if this could be a replacement for intranet text search?
- (ferret.davebalmain.com 429 )
- [JAVASCRIPT] The Elements of JavaScript Style
- Everything you need to know about writing good javacsript.
- (javascript.crockford.com 336 30 )
- [ESTIMATION] Web Worker 101: Estimating Basics
- Nothing new, but good round-up for people who have trouble estimating.
- (webworkerdaily.com 296 36 6 )
- [JAVASCRIPT] Learning JavaScript resources
- Good collection of tutorials and links about Javascript
- (juixe.com 289 4 6 )
- [CODE] Software Branching and Parallel Universes
- One of the best explanations of software branching in revision control that I’ve ever read.
- (codinghorror.com 274 34 3 )
- [GEEK] Flo Control Cat Door
- Image recognition to prevent cat from coming inside with a mouse. Why do I enjoy every link Coding Horror sends me so much?
- (quantumpicture.com 228 80 )
- [RAILS] Rails Rumble: 92 Web Apps Created in 48 Hours
- Winners from the 48 hours Rails Rumble
- (readwriteweb.com 169 28 681 )
- [FIREFOX] A Visual Guide to the Firefox Web Browser – Learn Firefox
- via: rooster
- (learnfirefox.cybernetnews.com 167 100 17 )
- [RAILS] Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications
- Free e-book for next 60 days. Probably not as good as Agile Web Development.
- (sitepoint.com 151 100 6 )
- [VIRUS] Gathering ‘Storm’ Superworm Poses Grave Threat to PC Nets
- Your antivirus software is completely useless. This is scary.
- (schneier.com 104 62 14 )
- [CODE] Inheritance is evil, and must be destroyed: part 1
- Using the strategy pattern vs inheritance with dark jedi examples.
- (berniecode.com 76 9 )
- [IPHONE] If wishes were iPhones, then beggars would call
- If you want to hack your phone (dvd player, etc) then buy a phone that lets you hack. Don’t complain about Apple’s lockin when everything they do revolves around lockin.
- (diveintomark.org 60 61 9 )
- [LIFEHACKS] 6 Rules for Dealing With Habits vs. Tasks
- Good ideas about how to build habits
- (zenhabits.net 54 8 58 )
- [BLOGGING] Blogging is Dumb, Stupid and Successful
- Rant against blogging about blogging and ‘quick tip’ type posts.
- (cornwallseo.com 38 25 716 )
- [CODE] What I Learned From X That Made Me A Better Programmer In Y
- From the article: ” We go with Bob’s plan because Bob successfully asserted his dominance over Fred. If we’re lucky, Bob is good at making plans as well as asserting dominance, but if he’s bad at making plans but good at asserting dominance, his plan is still the plan”
- (gilesbowkett.blogspot.com 37 3 2 )
- [HUMOR] Microsoft Search
- Microsoft Press releases shows that Microsoft Live Search will finally read the state Yahoo/Google was in 7 years ago.
- (wdr1.com 25 11 )
- [LIFEHACKS] shoutingmat.ch (lifehack)
- Interesting agreggator for posts about lifehacks.
- (lifehack.shoutingmat.ch 22 10 )
- [SEO] SEOS : The Card Counters of the Internet
- From the article: ” “Google is a casino, and you are a visitor.””
- (johnon.com 19 24 19 )
- [HUMOR] Crackbook
- Facebook parody site.
- (theinternetnowinhandybookform.com 16 17 )
- [BLOGGING] The 7 Habits of Highly Defective Bloggers
- 7 habits inverted with a view on blogging — what not to do
- (lifetrainingonline.com 12 6 13 )
- [PRESENTATIONS] Keynote (The Software) Considered Harmful
- Do presentations and demos with nothing but a whiteboard. Much more interactive.
- (gilesbowkett.blogspot.com 9 )
- [SEO] How I reversed my Google ranking penalty
- More on how asking for links with specific anchor text can get your blog blacklisted by google. Contest bloggers be aware.
- (davidairey.com 6 15 14 )
- [HUMOR] 300: The Board Game
- I still enjoy the meme :)
- (defectiveyeti.com 5 4 )
- [GUESTBLOGGING] Get Your Guest-Posts Here
- Guestblogger for hire, Chris G.
- (chrisg.com 3 18 )
- [COPYRIGHT] Has And Belongs To Many: The Problem With Trademarking Rails
- From the article: ” Trademark rights are destructive to the cooperation and trust necessary for successful open source projects.”
- (gilesbowkett.blogspot.com 2 )
- [RUBY] When does ( ?? == 63 ) ?
- True dat. Successfully scared me away from Ruby :)
- (sob.apotheon.org)
- [SEO] A Google Allegory at Hamlet Batista dot Com
- Asking for links with specific anchor text can get your blog blacklisted by google. Contest bloggers be aware.
- (hamletbatista.com 8 )
- [COMMUNITY] Poisonous People
- OSCON PDF slides from the SubVersion guys. Read the poisonous people one!
- (red-bean.com 5 )
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- inbound links – number of blogs who linked to it (max 100)
- diggs – number of people who dugg on http://digg.com
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- Magazine Review: October 2007 Issue of Inc. Magazine
- I came to a rather startling discovery in the past month: magazines are just blogs with the added luxury of being able to read them while on the toilet or in the bathtub (but hopefully not both). I picked up the October issue of Inc. magazine because Joel Spolsky of Joel On Software has joined the…
- Blog Tip: Create a Link Post in 3 Seconds
- One question I’m frequently asked is “how do you build those Best of Feeds weekly links?” The way I do it is pretty complicated, but I’ve found a much simpler way that I want to share with you all.
- Digest for September 2007
- Every month I publish a digest post collecting the best of Internet Duct Tape.
- Best of Feeds – 30 links – programming, productivity, code, socialsoftware, socialnetworking
- Tags: adsense, advice, blogging, career, code, design, development, firefox, gtd, lifehacks, productivity, programming, ruby, rubyonrails, socialnetworking, socialsoftware, tips, web2.0, webdesign
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- [AKISMET] Akismet Auntie Spam v2.04
- Our favorite Auntie has a new version. 2007/10/04 version 2.04 – Fixed (some) memory problems with v2.03 – Still slow, I need to get it working with a profiler, none of the hacks for Greasemonkey + Firebug seem to work.
- [DELICIOUS] Delicious Link Builder
- Build a list of links using your delicious account to bookmark them. Works great with my Yahoo Pipe Cleaner script . Example : [BOOKMARKING] toread – an email-based bookmark service Simple service to use to track stuff ‘to read later’. They store the top 10 for each day. It’s like…
- [RSS PIPE] Stupid Credit Builder
- This is a clone of Stupid Feed Rewriter that backdates the entry to January 1st, 1970. Useful for adding a credit link at the end of a list.
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Best of Feeds – 22 links – programming, blogging, tips, javascript, rails
RSS feeds are like cookies (that are good enough for me). Best of Feeds is a weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet this week. They’re saved on delicious and stumbleupon and cross-posted to Twitter and Tumblr as they happen and then collected together on Saturdays. I don’t blog on the weekend so read these links instead.
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- [GTD] Tracks
- A Ruby on Rails web app that is multiplatform and ships with it’s own web server (if needed). Implements GTD.
- (rousette.org.uk 3630 100 2 )
- [CREATIVITY] how to be creative
- From the article: ” Don’t try to stand out from the crowd; avoid crowds altogether.”
- (gapingvoid.com 3159 100 )
- [DESIGN] 15 Excellent Examples of Web Typography. Part 1
- 15 screenshots and links
- (ilovetypography.com 947 68 1624 )
- [GEEK] Cory Doctorow imagines a world in which Google is evil
- Cory Doctorow short story.
- (radaronline.com 374 100 22 )
- [HUMOR] lolsecretz – LOLCATS + POSTSECRET OMG!!!!!!!
- My memes have met and multiplied.
- (lolsecretz.blogspot.com 311 100 17 )
- [GEEK] How History Repeats Itself and the Death of Gmail
- Joel recounts the death of Lotus 1-2-3 in modern terms and explains how Google and current AJAX apps will die when they don’t realize the changing SDK.
- (joelonsoftware.com 270 100 11 )
- [CODE] 7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails
- Interesting take: your new code is better because your a better programmer, not because it’s a better language.
- (oreillynet.com 259 26 30 )
- [JAVASCRIPT] Code Conventions for the JavaScript Programming Language
- Good to know for writing Greasemonkey scripts.
- (javascript.crockford.com 259 24 7 )
- [INTERVIEWS] Thirteen Patterns Of Programmer Interviews
- Humorous but very on-point. I wonder what the style of interviewing you perform says about your company?
- (typicalprogrammer.com 221 15 5 )
- [WORKHACKS] Secrets to Amazon’s success
- From the article: ” People’s side projects, the one’s they follow because they are interested, are often ones where you get the most value and innovation. Never underestimate the power of wandering where you are most interested.”
- (37signals.com 176 26 3 )
- [CODE] Everything Is Fast For Small n
- Good overview of computational complexity and why you should always test with large datasets (on slow computers :) )
- (codinghorror.com 165 10 )
- [FIREFOX] Top 10 Firefox Extension-free Tabbed Browsing Techniques
- Things you didn’t know how to do with Firefox tabs.
- (lifehacker.com 83 )
- [EMAIL] Save Time With Search Folders in Outlook
- Use search folders to organize your email instead of putting them in different folders
- (howtogeek.com 42 4 )
- [SMO] Stumbleupon mathematics for stumblers
- A very interesting hypothesis about how StumbleUpon decides how much traffic to send to a site.
- (ventureskills.wordpress.com 40 19 5 )
- [EFFICIENCY] Time Saving & Automation Round-up: Let the Computer Do the Work
- Get your computer to do the heavy lifting. I can’t spell.
- (ofzenandcomputing.com 30 2 8 )
- [SMO] The Secret to Massive Digg/StumbleUpon Traffic Without Spamming
- When someone promotes your post via a social media site, SAY THANK YOU and build a relationship with them.
- (successful-blog.com 26 16 75 )
- [BOOKS] Author Robert Jordan Dies
- Robert Jordan dies at 58 of a rare blood disease. Wheel of Times books left uncompleted.
- (ap.google.com 8 100 10 )
- [BLOGGING] 4 reasons to write on the weekend and 4 posts to do it with
- Mu argues against taking the weekend off from blogging
- (muhammadsaleem.com 5 6 51 )
- [LIFEHACKS] Nurture Your Relationships with Positive Flooding
- You need 5 positive actions for every 1 negative action in marriages, 3:1 for work
- (annezelenka.com 5 3 )
- [PRIVACY] A Question of Privacy
- Good overview of online privacy, data retention, cross-referencing, etc.
- (baekdal.com 5 )
- [BLOGS] Copyright Notice
- Finally a decent copyright notice for blogs! I’m going to copy it without giving any credit back.
- (angryaussie.wordpress.com 2 )
- [TV] 5 Questions Season Two of Heroes Had Better F#@king Answer
- Great wrap up of Season 1 of Heroes.
- (cracked.com 100 )
Legend
- saves – number of people who bookmarked on http://del.icio.us
- inbound links – number of blogs who linked to it (max 100)
- diggs – number of people who dugg on http://digg.com
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[DELICIOUS/STUMBLEUPON] Delicious Stumbles crossposting tool
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