47% of initial applications for our Hacker Retreat came from women. This is how we did it. Unfortunately, if you’ve been in technology for any amount of time, you’ll have noticed that there is a slight gender imbalance . As we laid the groundwork for Hacker Paradise , we wanted to ensure that…

Check out Pinboard’s first foray into native advertising, this flattering article in the Atlantic: http://t.co/IICyS9ceid

The Good Boy, 1837. How to Be Polite Most people don’t notice I’m polite, which is sort of the point. I don’t look polite. I am big and droopy and need a haircut. No soul would associate me with watercress sandwiches. Still, every year or so someone takes me aside and says, you actually are weirdly…

Conor Oberst at Radio City Music Hall in 2011. Chad Batka for The New York Times Ella Yelich-O’Connor, better known as Lorde, the New Zealand-born teenage pop star, and Conor Oberst, the solo artist and frontman for Bright Eyes, are separated by 17 years and several continents. But in many ways they…

Version 2.2, for Lightroom 4 and Up $49 Do all your photo editing, from simple adjustments to complex, using an intuitive visual preview instead of sliders. Over 600 Lightroom presets arranged to create a unique “see-and-react” workflow. You don't need to be a Lightroom expert, you just need to know…

​​​Subscribe: http://bit.ly/PolarisSubscribe See what's next on Maker.TV ► http://mker.tv/Polaris THE FOUR PLAYERS is a bold new take on some familiar gaming icons. Here, THE FIXER decides he can't let things stay broken any longer. Written and Directed by Evan Daugherty Produced by Philip Schaeffer…

Mapping the international availability of entertainment services great work by @greyham and @macstoriesnet http://t.co/lcju104NHZ

Adam Scott as Ben Wyatt and Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope. (Ben Cohen/NBC) This post discusses the sixth-season finale of “Parks and Recreation,” which aired on April 24. “Are you ready?” a tuxedoed Ben Wyatt (Adam Scott) asked his wife, Leslie Knope, at the end of the season finale of “Parks and…

Special Topics In Gameology is an in-depth look at a specific corner of the gaming world in miniseries form. For this edition of the feature—Empty Spaces—we’re examining games’ most fascinating realms of desolation. America has seen plenty of cities rapidly grow and fade. From the boom towns of the…

A few years ago, when I was a graduate student in English, I presented a paper at my department’s American Literature Colloquium. (A colloquium is a sort of writing workshop for graduate students.) The essay was about Thomas Kuhn, the historian of science. Kuhn had coined the term “paradigm shift,”…

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great intro to designing your own language: http://t.co/ydgGxH4iIz - explains ASTs (via esprima) and grammar construction (via PEG.js).

We already knew that Siri has turned millions of iPhones into real-life Pokédexes , but now it seems that the iPhone 5c can actually become a Pokémon, too. A Pokémon fan named George Michael Brower has created a set of iPhone 5c backgrounds and sticker templates that give the colorful smartphones an…

Maciej Cegłowski von Pinboard auf dem XOXO Festival (2013) http://t.co/HffWxzFhc0

After the overwhelming reaction to my “ 50 writing errors that make you look like an amateur ” post, I couldn’t help but continue my mission of cleansing the Internet of all grammatical malfeasance. So here are 25 more transgressions to avoid if you want to be taken seriously as a writer. Of course,…

Its/it’s: Memorize this, study it, do something, because some readers think this error is so abhorrent, they will stop reading the instant they see you misuse it. For free: The word “for” is not necessary. “Get out of jail free.” As: I can’t understand how the word “as” has crept into writing like…

AliceBundle A Symfony bundle to manage fixtures with nelmio/alice and fzaninotto/Faker . Currently supports Doctrine ORM , Doctrine ODM , Doctrine PHPCR ODM . Documentation Advanced usage Enabling databases Fixtures parameters Doctrine ORM Doctrine ODM (MongoDB) Doctrine PHPCR ODM Custom Faker…

TeX line breaking algorithm in JavaScript This is an implementation of the Knuth and Plass line breaking algorithm using JavaScript. The goal of this project is to optimally set justified text in the browser, and ultimately provide a library for various line breaking algorithms in JavaScript. The…

CSSComb: Tool for sorting CSS properties in alphabetical order https://t.co/BrcuSCZP4c