Last week I delve into web sustainability which led to running several tests using Google’s PageSpeed Insights tool. As I knocked out one suggestion then the next I was surprised how simple delivery enhancements can speed up even the leanest website. PageSpeed Insights Websites are heavy, even a s...
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Tantek Çelik (tantek.com)I am running for the W3C Advisory Board (AB). If you work on or care about open web standards, I am asking you, and in particular your W3C Advisory Committee representative, to vote me for as their #1 vote (due to the way the current W3C STV mechanism is interpreted and implemented by the W3C Team)....
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👓 Lean Publishing by Peter Armstrong [Leanpub PDF/iPad/Kindle]
This book explains the philosophy behind Leanpub, from its origin in "a book is a startup" to the present form. Lean Publishing is the act of publishing an in-progress book using lightweight tools and many iterations to get reader feedback, pivot until you have the right book and build traction once you do.
Great example here of eating what one cooks for one’s self (aka self-dogfooding.)
👓 Book Promotion Visuals Ideas for Social Platforms and Blogs | Paolo Amoroso
Leanpub is the self-publishing platform I use for my book Space Apps for Android. It provides a toolchain and workflow for publishing works in-progress, something similar to releasing new versions of a software package. Publishing a new version of a book in-progress is a good opportunity for posting...
👓 Gluon – opening more TestFlight spots, calling all Android testers | Vincent Ritter
Vincent Ritter (vincentritter.com)👓 Gluon’s future, going all native and dropping active development for Android. | Vincent Ritter
Vincent Ritter (vincentritter.com)Apparently he’s already reversed himself about Android support??
👓 A brief history on American political parties | Marty Duren
As part of my ongoing effort to supplant the two major political parties… Did you know George Washington was not a member of a political party? In fact, he found them dangerous, and warned about them. The first President of the United States got it right. In his farewell address, George Washingto...
Interesting infographics here.
👓 A Perspective on Time | Visual.ly
Humans are good at a lot of things, but putting time in perspective is not one of them. It's not our fault - the span of time in human history, and even more so in natural history, are so vast compared to the span of our life and recent history that it's almost impossible to get a handle on it.
👓 Let’s Make Twitter Great Again? – A Reflection on a Social Media of One | Read Write Respond
Aaron Davis (Read Write Respond)Many argue that something is not right with social media as it currently stands. This post explores what it might mean to make Twitter great again? Responding to Jack Dorsey’s call for suggestions on how to improve Twitter, Dave Winer put forward two suggestions: preventing trolling and making cha...
👓 Al Pacino biography | IMDB
One of the greatest actors in all of film history, Al Pacino established himself during one of cinema's most vibrant decades, the 1970s, and has ...
👓 The Books of College Libraries Are Turning Into Wallpaper | The Atlantic | Dan Cohen
University libraries around the world are seeing precipitous declines in the use of the books on their shelves.
GitHub has launched a new Sponsors tool that allows open source developer to receive financial support. The program is rolling out slowly and currently has a waitlist for open source contributors o…
👓 Block Comments on the Web With This Chrome Extension | LifeHacker
Scroll the comment section on virtually any site on the web and you’re bound to encounter at least a few toxic comments. Maybe more than a few, depending on the site you’re looking at and the topic of the post people are commenting on.
The lie or myth or mistaken belief (depending on intentions, I suppose) that the fetus tries to “escape” or “move away” during an abortion is common. It was in the recent fo…
👓 W3C and the WHATWG signed an agreement to collaborate on a single version of HTML and DOM | W3.org
Today W3C and the WHATWG signed an agreement to collaborate on the development of a single version of the HTML and DOM specifications. The Memorandum of Understanding jointly published as the WHATWG/W3C Joint Working Mode gives the specifics of this collaboration. This is the...