Online version of the classic editing/grammar/writing manual.

“HTML and CSS Tutorials, References, and Articles”

Excellent list of resources/links/specs relating to Atom and AtomPub.

Awesome backpack from 5.11 Tactical. Seems to be about the best all-rounder you can find.

Discussion document for the next evolution of the web, as a network of connections. In this new model, the connections matter more than the objects being connected.

Amazing designer with some awesome sketch-work, infographics and more.

A real recipe for Damper, the native Australian/Aborigine bread.

“Swift, Secure, and Small PHP 5 Framework”

Awesome article on the non-design-pattern, non-over-architecting approach to software development. It’s all about getting shit done, and shipping product.

“a case study in using HTML5’s sectioning elements”, by Edward O’Connor

This segment of the recorded stream from WCPH covers my session, called Meet The Family.

Here’s a video of me eating balut in Manila. Balut is a fertilized duck egg, which is hardboiled after (in our case) 14 or 15 days.

Great post with some very clear guidelines on designing faceted search filters.

“Background images make pages look good, but also make them slower. Each background image is an extra HTTP request. There’s a fix: combine background images into a CSS sprite. But creating sprites is hard, requiring arcane knowledge and …

“Browserscope is a community-driven project for profiling web browsers. The goals are to foster innovation by tracking browser functionality and to be a resource for web developers.”

Hit this page to get a series of phonetically-friendly random passwords.

Convert Office documents from DOCX back to DOC

The strings required to configure poEdit to handle plurals in all sorts of languages

“The PHP OpenID library lets you enable OpenID authentication on sites built using PHP. It features the OpenID consumer, Store implementations, and an OpenID server.”

How to make a bracelet out of paracord that contains around 3m of cord.

“Power your MacBook for up to 34 hours HyperMac External Battery for MacBook comes in 4 different sizes (60/100/150/222Wh)”

Allows you to set up an internal social network that integrates functionality from tools like Twitter and BaseCamp/Highrise. Includes task tracking and a lot of “live updates” type stuff.

Pretty decent “live chat” IM widget to add to pages for bumping up sales etc. Works quite nicely.

Howto/tutorial from Plaxo on how to OpenID-enable your website. Includes DB schema details and all.

“CodeMirror is a JavaScript library that can be used to create a relatively pleasant editor interface for code-like content ― computer programs, HTML markup, and similar.” Better option than CodePress?

by Christian Montoya, christianmontoya.com. Good comparison matrix of the major CSS frameworks including number of contributors, documentation, etc.

Free and open options for setting up at least the framework of a community site.

Awesome (and very long) slideshow on all sorts of scalability and performance techniques for massive websites/services.

“How to build cheap cloud storage”. Amazing details of a backup company that custom-builds their own storage “pods” to store massive amounts of data relatively cheaply.

“Built with typographic standards in mind, Baseline makes it easy to develop a website with a pleasing grid and good typography. Baseline starts with several files to reset the browser’s default behavior, build a basic typographic layout — …

“PHP Speedy is a script that you can install on your web server to automatically speed up the download time of your web pages. Here’s an example, from a test page:”

“Real-time feed parsing in the cloud for web-developers”

“A pattern describes an optimal solution to a common problem within a specific context.”

“An open protocol to allow standard email addresses to be transformed into URLs for services like OpenID.”

Using JS to detect the timezone setting of a user so that you can store everything in UTC and just adjust based on that, client-side.

“Webhooks are a simple paradigm for developing instant notifications and mashups based on simple HTTP requests. With HookPress you can set up webhooks so that a specified URL (a public service or something you set up) is requested when …

“Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License” – I love this; why is it so hard to give something away?

How to translate a WordPress plugin using poEdit.

“TightURL takes a very long URL as input, and returns a very short URL within the TightURL namespace.”

“Springing from the legendary scouting, tracking, wilderness survival skills of Apache warriors, onPoint Tactical offers superior training for modern-day professionals and civilians who require or desire advanced outdoor skill sets to …

This guy has written all sorts of handy PHP code for dealing with iCal etc. Handles most calendar-based feed information, plus some neat tools.

“Edit PDFs easily with PDFpen! Add text, images and signatures. Make corrections. Fill out PDF forms. Merge, delete and reorder pages.”

Tutorial/summary of some different approaches to storing hierarchical information in a database.

“XML-RPC Client is a free Cocoa-based developer tool for Mac OS X Tiger that allows you to access and debug XML-RPC web services from the comfort of your desktop.”

Amazing improv acoustic performances by bands. Some really really cool performances here.

Air travel agency based here in SF. Specialize in RTW tickets and multi-stop itineraries.

Awesome blog with “unconventional strategies for life, work and travel”

Makers of fine leather knife sheaths and a great source of survivalist technique info, videos, etc.

“View and Create User Flows, Viral Loops, and More.”

A comparison matrix between a bunch of the more popular URL shortening services.