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Bigfoot A jQuery plugin for empowering footnotes. Inspired by Instapaper. Built for mobile devices and responsive designs.

IntentKit — The iOS tool for inter-app linking IntentKit is an open-source iOS library that makes it easier to link to other apps. It’s sort of like Android’s Intents or Windows Phone’s Contracts. For example: If the user has multiple web browsers installed, this will display a modal sheet (similar to an iOS 7-style UIActivityViewController) listing each available application.

This brings us to the magical three step process for becoming an expert at anything: Watch someone Try it yourself and experiment Teach someone else (via Programming Your Brain: The Art of Learning in Three Steps | BitNative ) See also another image representation:

embedresponsively.com embedresponsively.com helps build responsive embed codes for embedding rich third-party media into responsive web pages.

Replacing The User Story With The Job Story We frame every design problem in a Job, focusing on the triggering event or situation, the motivation and goal, and the intended outcome: When _____ , I want to _____ , so I can _____ . For example: When an important new customer signs up, I want to be notified, so I can start a conversation with them. See also 5 Tips For Writing A Job Story:...

Canvas – Simplify iOS Development Animate in Xcode without code

How many bugs and wasted CPU cycles and instances of human frustration (not to mention bad design) have resulted from that one small shortcut about 40 years ago? Keep that in mind next time you want to cut a corner in your code. Rob Pike (via A lesson in shortcuts. Long ago, as the design of the Unix… )

The Twelve-Factor App In the modern era, software is commonly delivered as a service: called web apps, or software-as-a-service. The twelve-factor app is a methodology for building software-as-a-service apps (…) Codebase Dependencies Config Backing Services Build, release, run Processes Port binding Concurrency Disposability Dev/prod parity Logs Admin processes

ImageOptim optimizes images — so they take up less disk space and load faster — by finding best compression parameters and by removing unnecessary comments and color profiles. It handles PNG, JPEG and GIF animations. (via ImageOptim — better Save For Web )

First make it work (get tests to pass). Then make it right (clean it). Then make it fast. (if it needs it). Uncle Bob (via How to convince ‘performance guys’ to Clean Code – Google Groups )