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The ultimate analytics platform. Send your data to any service with the flick of a switch. (via Segment.io – The ultimate analytics platform ) “It is basically the adapter pattern for analytics services.” (thoughtbot’s playbook )

Myth – CSS the way it was imagined. Myth is a preprocessor that lets you write pure CSS without having to worry about slow browser support, or even slow spec approval. It’s like a CSS polyfill. Variables : The same syntax from the CSS spec, using the var() function . Math : The same syntax from the CSS spec, using the calc() function . Color Manipulation : Straight from Tab Atkins’s draft for a future version of the spec....

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

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

How To Not Suck Online Download a PDF poster of the below tips & tricks Clear Language Simplicity Visual Priority Create Intrigue Ten Ideas in ten Minutes Write a Good Brief Write the News Story Make me Look Good It Pays to be Remarkable Be Relevant Collaborate not Death by Committee Adapt or Die Tell a Story Use Humor Give People a Strong Call to Action

Frequently, businesses will turn to “convenience metrics” average (or mean) response times to gauge overall performance. However while the average might be easy to understand it’s also extremely misleading. (…) The best way to measure this is to track the 99th percentile response time: the worst 1% . (via The Most Misleading Measure of Response Time: Average – Optimizely Blog )

Today, suddenly two companies in the same space crossed my radar : Bondable | The Cloud Integration Enablement Platform Zapier – Automate the Web Together with the earlier “If This Then That”, seems like more and more people are starting to feel the need to hook up together several disparate web services. IFTTT / Put the internet to work for you.

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 )

Heap – Capture Everything Analytics for web and iOS Heap automatically captures every user action in your app and lets you measure it all. Clicks, taps, swipes, form submissions, page views, and more. Track events and segment users instantly. No pushing code. No waiting for data to trickle in.

Size Calculator Nick Sherman demo’d Size Calculator , a web application created to bring screen design a capability that print design has enjoyed for 500 years. (via Web Type, Meet Size Calculator ∙ An A List Apart Blog Post )