Web Developer Representation in W3C.
During its annual general member meeting on October 19th, the Fronteers board will propose both to become a member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and to hire Rachel Andrew as our representative in that standards body.
Perkeep (née Camlistore) is a set of open source formats, protocols, and software for modeling, storing, searching, sharing and synchronizing data in the post-PC era. Data may be files or objects, tweets or 5TB videos, and you can access it via a phone, browser or FUSE filesystem.
Here come the automators.
The Coders Programming Themselves Out of a Job.
When workers automate their own duties, who should reap the benefits?
Controlling one’s own destiny, though, takes more than product or popularity. It takes money, which is to say it takes building a company, working business model and all. That is why I mark April 9, 2012, as the day yesterday became inevitable. Letting Facebook build the business may have made Systrom and Krieger rich and freed them to focus on product, but it made Zuckerberg the true CEO, and always, inevitably, CEOs call the shots.
Privacy-friendly alternatives to Google that don't track you.
You know your reputation is damaged badly when people start naming their test cheating software after your brand.
🙈Volkswagen detects when your tests are being run in a CI server, and makes them pass.
“Uncertain Journey” by Chiharu Shiota.
Lyft Design’s Colorbox is a color tool to produce color sets (via design.lyft.com).
Web developers and their pets: Developurrs.