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(via Thou shalt not commit logical fallacies ) Ver também, em português: Não cometerás uma falácia lógica! | COMCEPT

Meteor – A new way to build apps. Meteor is a set of new technologies for building top-quality web apps in a fraction of the time, whether you’re an expert developer or just getting started. Pure JavaScript. Live page updates. Clean, powerful data synchronization. Latency compensation. Hot Code Pushes. Sensitive code runs in a privileged environment. Fully self-contained application bundles. Interoperability. Smart Packages.

Brain Crack (Explicit Version) :: Best of the Show :: 07-11-06 (by zefrank1)

Expressing UX Concepts Visually :: UXmatters Words and Objects are not Enough Why Visuals are Important A More Visual Approach to Communicating UX Concepts (…) I hope using these ideas will help you to make your UX deliverables more visual—and your concepts more readily understandable to your clients and stakeholders. I believe this greater understanding will help you to get buy-in for your concepts more quickly and easily.

Test Drive the RubyMotion Console An in-browser demo of the RubyMotion REPL built on Pieceable Viewer.

QueryPosts – better WordPress code reference More comprehensive and up-to-date than Codex. More friendly and convenient than raw code and cross-references.

pathod pathod is a pathological HTTP/S daemon, useful for testing and torturing HTTP clients. (…) The simplest way to use pathod is to fire up the daemon, and specify the response behaviour you want using this language in the request URL.

“The illusion of choice.”

Dodd’s Blog: How My Side Project Generated Sales and 66,000 Unique Visitors in 1 Month doddcaldwell: At the end of February, I launched a side project, Loft Resumes, with a friend of mine, Emory Cash. Our tagline is “Style-Conscious Resumes for the Standout Job Seeker.” As you can tell from the Google Analytics screenshot below, from the time that we first tweeted about it on February 21st to mid-day March 31st, we’ve received over 81,000 visits (over 66,000 of them uniques,) and over 209,000 page views. ...

Chartaca – Instant Real Time Charts There’s no registration, you just start using it. You don’t even have to ask for a chart. Just generate a new UUID and start sending data. (…) All you have to do is paste an img tag onto your site. You can create as many charts as you like. Track everything. (…) Dynamically load the image using JavaScript to track user actions. On the server-side, HTTP GET the image URL programmatically. You can also do this in your iPhone or Android app. ...

Update 2023-07-31: Internet Archive 2022-12-05 For everyone who feels overwhelmed! chillout by zefrank chillout by zefrank the story of the making of chillout can be found here :: www.zefrank.com/chillout/

Startup Death Clock The startup death clock tells you what day your startup will run out of money.

Startup Exercise: What can’t be solved with money? (…) show how the important problems facing your business are those that can be solved with money, because money is what they’re providing . Even if you’re not pitching this is a useful exercise, because if you’re good at the things money can’t buy, you’ll remain competitive even when confronted by a well-funded competitor. (…) The pattern: concepts , behaviors , knowledge , and process cannot be fabricated with money, and possibly cannot even be accelerated. Once you know what to do or, more likely, you know how to learn quickly, then money becomes an accelerant . ...

Avería – The Average Font This is the story of the creation of a new font, Avería: the average of all the fonts on my computer.

Max Schrems: The Austrian Thorn In Facebook’s Side – Forbes Description of the extent to which Facebook records and keeps information on it’s users, i.e. “nothing is ever deleted”! See also: Facebook Keeps A History Of Everyone Who Has Ever Poked You, Along With A Lot Of Other Data – Forbes

Never say “no,” but rarely say “yes.” So the principle is easy: Set the conditions of “yes” such that: If they say “yes,” you’re happy because the terms or money are so good, it more than compensates for the distraction, possibly even funding the thing you really want to do. If they say “no,” you’re happy because it wasn’t a great fit anyway, so it’s not worthwhile for a small return on your time and effort. So that’s the punch-line, but before you go I’d like to over-emphasize the idea of “funding the thing you really want to do.” ...

Skeuomorphism & Storytelling / Tobias Bjerrome Ahlin It is often said that design should be invisible. More importantly, design should empower. An interface that is not only easy to use, but fun to use, engages the user and creates an experience where obstacles are easier to overcome, and thus an experience where the product is easier and more effortless to use. Done right, skeuomorphism can retain the simplicity and ease of use of an interface while empowering users to act. ...

A startup can focus on only one metric. So you have to decide what that is and ignore everything else. Noah Kagan, in The full story of “the one important thing” for startups At a little company there’s no time for small changes achieving small goals. — Jason Cohen

Your time is $1000/hour, and you need to act accordingly. Jason Cohen , founder of WP Engine in How should a startup founder value her time?

Instagram and Optimizing Favicons | Zoompf “Lesson #1: Don’t forget your favicon.” But optimizing your website’s favicon goes beyond just making sure you don’t forget it. Below are 5 recommendations for optimizing your favicon, plus two bonus tips, to optimize your website’s favicon. Make sure it exists. Make sure it is compatible. Make sure it is cacheable. Make sure it is the right size. Make sure to serve it using compression. Additionally you can try: ...