Thursday, 19. May 12016
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Centering in CSS is a pain in the ass. This is a code generator that consolidates them and gives you the code you need for each situation.

Where did we go wrong, Peter Norvig? Why didn't Common Lisp fix the world?

“Lisp is so powerful that problems which are technical issues in other programming languages are social issues in Lisp.” (Via @walterra.)

Is there not an algorithm for this, already?

Pixel-fitting.

“Note: This article contains non-retina images, which are not pixel-fitted. The irony is not lost on me.”

Front-end metrics from big news sites around the world.

Tuesday, 17. May 12016
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Serve The Web Like It's 2016.

Caddy is an alternative web server that is easy to configure and use.

“The HTTP/2 web server with automatic HTTPS (letsencrypt.com).”

“Millions of Americans had their first encounter with e-mail thanks to a little help from the U.S. Postal Service, which stuffed mailboxes with discs for America Online. Yet, as Bloomberg Businessweek’s Devin Leonard writes in his new book, Neither Snow nor Rain: A History of the United States Postal Service, if things had gone differently, your first e-mail would have been delivered by your mailman.”

Source: bloomberg.com

In Pop Culture, the Future Is Almost Now.

Orphan Black shares Black Mirror’s nonchalance about even the most outlandish of its premises: The sensation is often that of watching stories ripped from next year’s headlines.

Godzilla goes to lunch (via facebook.com).

Source: 88-bar.com
Monday, 16. May 12016
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Be careful what you wish for.

Apple’s actual role in podcasting.

“(…) the last thing we all need is for the ‘data’ economy to destroy another medium.”

Friday, 13. May 12016
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Maybe the perfect solution: JavaScript Standard Style.

“The whole point of standard is to avoid bikeshedding about style. There are lots of debates online about tabs vs. spaces, etc. that will never be resolved. These debates just distract from getting stuff done. At the end of the day you have to 'just pick something', and that's the whole philosophy of standard -- its a bunch of sensible 'just pick something' opinions.”