decatrek.com
DecaTrek – My 10 Year Journey
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My 10 Year Journey. April and no showers. Posted by Michael on May 19, 2010 in Journal. Yesterday we woke up to find that we had no water. Few things in the scheme of modern conveniences are more devastating than the lack of indoor running water. Toilets function for one flush, and unless you have maintained a store of backup water for one purpose or another you have to take care of the essentials of personal hygiene somewhere that has running water. Posted by Michael on April 8, 2010 in Journal. Recentl...
niklasmorberg.blogspot.com
Niklas's Blog: March 2012
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On the rare occasion I write something longer than a tweet it ends up here. Thursday, March 29, 2012. Insta-bility: The Instapaper and Readability apps for iPad compared. Are two similar services that provide an uncluttered reading experience of web pages. They are both available as iOS apps and directly on the web. Instapaper is developed by Marco Arment. And Readability by Arc 90. There is a third contender, Read it Later. But I have never been able to stand it for long enough to form an opinion. Most ...
darrennewton.com
Articles | Miscellanea
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Code, design and cultural ephemera. Sour Mash: getting your Clojure into a JAR. This weekend I decided to finally bite the bullet and deploy one of my Clojure. Apps as a JAR. I thought to myself,. There are great tutorials for this online. Yes, yes there are, except none of them worked for me and in fact did lead to the consumption of some rye whiskey. Read more about Sour Mash: getting your Clojure into a JAR. Mar 8, 2015. Code, Clojure, Deployment. I’ve always liked identicons. Jan 4, 2015. Nov 16, 2013.
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Hacking up sites with Middleman | Miscellanea by Darren Newton
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Code, design and cultural ephemera. Sep 16, 2012. Hacking up sites with Middleman. I’m going to walk through how I rebuilt this blog using a static site generator. In the first half I walk through my decision for moving to a static site. You can skip down. To the tech talk if you want. When re-designing/building my portfolio. Site in 2007 I did the tried and true geek thing: I hacked up my own custom CMS using CakePHP. It was also complete overkill. To meet my server-side. I got 99 reasons. If you want y...
arrix.blogspot.com
It Takes a Whole Life to be Arrix: Server side readability with node.js
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It Takes a Whole Life to be Arrix. Arrix writes about web development, programming and all his weird thoughts. November 20, 2010. Server side readability with node.js. For people just looking for code: node-readability on github. Is a fantastic javascript tool that makes web pages easier and more enjoyable to read. It removes the clutter around the article content and applies legible and beautiful styles. Apple has incorporated. It into Safari Reader. Many other apps have integrated readability, too.
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It Takes a Whole Life to be Arrix: November 2010
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It Takes a Whole Life to be Arrix. Arrix writes about web development, programming and all his weird thoughts. November 20, 2010. Server side readability with node.js. For people just looking for code: node-readability on github. Is a fantastic javascript tool that makes web pages easier and more enjoyable to read. It removes the clutter around the article content and applies legible and beautiful styles. Apple has incorporated. It into Safari Reader. Many other apps have integrated readability, too.
pileofturtles.com
Reading in the Dark
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Pile of Turtles Archive. Reading in the Dark. I like to read in the dark. I find it soothing to hold a dimly glowing screen to the background of a pitch-black room. It’s like WriteRoom’s. Minimal approach to writing. Blocking out all the distractions in the room allows me to entirely focus on reading. Sadly, by default, most websites aren’t conducive to reading in the dark. What follows are the best ways I have found to read anything comfortably in the dark. White Backgrounds Are Blinding. Just receieved...
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Notes by Paul Phongsak Yuhun - Memonic
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New climate study deals blow to skeptics. Oct 22, 2011. New climate study deals blow to skeptics. A new study backs up previous research which says that global temperatures are rising. Independent study concludes global land temperatures have risen since 1950s. Study examined 1.6 billion weather reports from nearly 40,000 weather stations. Climate skeptic concern over "urban heat island effect" not borne out by research. Study also finds no evidence of data selection bias claimed by skeptics. This confir...
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Teehan+Lax - Defining Experience
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A Social Shopping Platform. One Feed For All Your Interests. Painting A Social Portrait. A Place for Ideas and Stories. Getting Down to Business. A Platform for Reading. Pictures Instead of Words. Shipping a Great Idea. A Platform for Reading. Is the platform for reading on the Web. From infancy to extraordinary. Readability started as an open source JavaScript library. In its earliest forms, it was code that let anyone take a web page and create a clean reading view of the page. Its code became ...That ...