October 2009
37 posts
Start with Something Minimal
Lots of founders mentioned how important it was to launch with the simplest possible thing. By this point everyone knows you should release fast and iterate. It’s practically a mantra at YC. But even so a lot of people seem to have been burned by not doing it: Build the absolute smallest thing that can be considered a complete application and ship it. Why do people take...
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How to Change Your Motor Oil | The Art of... →
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WatchWatch
Makebelieve Help, Old Butchers, and Figuring Out Who You Are (For Now) on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
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HTML5 Reset Stylesheet | HTML5 Doctor  →
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Advanced CSS Styling and the CannyBill redesign... →
If right now you’re asking yourself what your clients might think of this approach, remind yourself (and them) that only web geeks use more than one browser and will never see the differences between even these modern browsers. Great article from Andy Clarke about using HTML5 and CSS3 right now.
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How to Speed Read Like Theodore Roosevelt →
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A List Apart: Articles: Getting to No →
Having run into several of these clients, it’s great to have ways to counter the problems.
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“Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language,...”
– Elise Boulding (via minimalmac)
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Derek Powazek - Spammers, Evildoers, and... →
I’ve always thought that SEO is voodoo science.
Oct 14th
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ClickToFlash →
Go download this as soon as you can and remove the headache that is Flash.
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Lessons in Manliness: Matthew Henson | The Art of... →
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“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and...”
– William Henry Channing (via minimalmac)
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Physical Storage vs. Digital Storage | The Mozy... →
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“The nature of the personal computer is simply not fully understood by companies...”
– San Francisco Examiner, John C. Dvorak, 19 Feb. 1984 (via A design and usability blog: Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals))
Oct 2nd
improve Quick Look
minimalmac: chrisbowler: finermac: “$ defaults write com.apple.finder QLEnableXRayFolders 1” — macosxhints.com - See folder content previews in Quick Look in 10.5 and 10.6  (via Ben Ward) Nice find — it works very well. It even slowly rotates through the items in each folder.
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Coding Horror: Email: The Variable Reinforcement... →
Just as much as multitasking is doing you in, so is checking your email. I try to keep to a two-a-day schedule where I check my email at noon and at four, but somedays it’s awfully tough.
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