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Content First by Jeffrey Zeldman - An Event Apart Boston

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hub gives you some nice shortcuts when using git and github. 

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I really like how it opens the calendar as a huge lightbox. 

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This pattern — “success” based on forecasted future success instead of current success — shows up all over the tech-business press. Instead of metrics like “they make more money than they spend” we see stuff like “user count growth” and “followers” and “impressions” and “friends” and “visits” qualify success. Whenever you see someone piling big numbers into made up metrics, it’s a diversion.

Jason Fried

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A lot has changed. 

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Dave Wiskus explains the process behind Vesper, his new note-taking app with John Gruber and Brent Simmons. The post features screenshots and video-clips of the different iterations before the completed app came out. 

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Everything you agree to do is other things you can’t do.

Merlin Mann

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Douglas Engelbart left this mortal world two weeks ago. Read his story and remember the vision he had for our present. 

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This can be useful not only to beginners. 

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New tutorial channel from Lucas Deraugh focused on Core Animation. 

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I’m skeptical of this system’s slavering, self-congratulatory fetishization of “disruption” while so obviously becoming the sort of stolid institution it seeks to displace. I’m skeptical of the startup community’s often short-term outlook.

Alex Payne on startups. 

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Storage adapter for Backbone that enables you to use Dropbox for model storage. 

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The title says it all. 

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The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.

Charlie Munger

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Really liked what Jason Santa Maria said about his expectations for iOS 7, just prior WWDC. Coincidently, or not he emphasised on the main points Apple addressed with the new version. 

I want iOS to grow up. I want it to act like it’s been around for 6 years and that it knows the score. Iteration like this can reduce the need for skeuomorphism; when people become more familiar with an interface, it can be pared down aesthetically over time. Not necessarily flat, just less.

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Craig Mod discusses his experience with a company which built as big as 4 million fans community just on Facebook. Typicall for his style it includes historical references and reflections on the publishing industry slow march towards the new era of digital-only media interactions.  

Also if you've missed Subcompact Publishing. 

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Some of the new features in Safari for OS X Mavericks.