d

You need to write documentation. d makes it easy:

  • Put a bunch of Markdown files in a directory.
  • Run d.
  • Get on with your life.

No fiddling around with configuration files, themes, version numbers, obtuse markup, or multiple output formats.

"À primeira cai quem não sabe, à segunda quem se esquece, à terceira quem merece!"
- Hugo Ferreira
(adapted)

Errar e aprender é humano! Só “errar” é como a mosca a bater no vidro… no vidro… no vidro… no vidro…

Format Text as a Table | Senseful Solutions

Here’s a simple tool that let’s you format text as a table. Simply enter in tab-delimited text (e.g. by copying from Excel), then press “Create Table”.

MBWA — Management By Walking Around

(via Ricardo Liberato)


How Steve Jobs earned his MBWA degree (Management By Walking Around) | SmartPlanet

Jobs had mastered the art of MBWA, or Management By Walking Around.  It’s a relatively simple — but way underused — best practice that keeps managers in touch with the people paying the bills or making things happen around the company.

Three-step dance

The structure of a Kottke post is totally elemental:
  • Title
  • Link
  • Pull (blockquote, picture, video)
  • Response
  • Reader comments (optional)
And that’s it. It’s the five basic units that blogs were built on, distilled to their essence. And titles and comments are important, but Jason’s done without them both. They’re paratext. The real core is link, pull, response.

Phone Size - Phone size comparison made easy!

Show the actual size of a phone on your screen!

Integrated Content Editor (ICE)

Ice is a track changes implementation, built in javascript, for anything that is contenteditable on the web.

Released by the New York Times with an online demo at GitHub.

"… all anyone ever does is recycle the same four themes: a love story between two people, a love triangle, the struggle for power, and the story of a journey."
- Paulo Coelho
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xScope

Created specifically for designers & developers, xScope is a powerful set of tools that are ideal for measuring, inspecting & testing on-screen graphics and layouts.

ThinkUp: Social Media Insights Platform

ThinkUp is a free, open source web application that captures all your activity on social networks like Twitter, Facebook and Google+.

With ThinkUp, you can store your social activity in a database that you control, making it easy to search, sort, analyze, publish and display activity from your network. All you need is a web server that can run a PHP application.

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Lamport timestamps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Lamport timestamps is a simple algorithm used to determine the order of events in a distributed computer system.

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Vector clock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Vector clocks are an algorithm for generating a partial ordering of events in a distributed system and detecting causality violations.

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Frameless

Is Frameless a framework?

Nope. It doesn’t include any code. It’s just an idea for a specific type of adaptive grid. You can use it as a good starting point for a new design, but you’ll still have to do all the hard work of designing and coding yourself.

Golden Grid System

Golden Grid System (GGS) splits the screen into 18 even columns. The leftmost and rightmost columns are used as the outer margins of the grid, which leaves 16 columns for use in design.