Hay, I wrote this in 2012! I still like the notion of the metaphorical connection between content-based sizing units (e.g. ems) and layout definitions (e.g. breakpoints). And the zooming behavior cited here was always meant more as a sidelong example than a core argument. Nonetheless! You should…

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We now live in a country where libraries campaigned for by people are stripped of books by night. Jesus. http://t.co/bAiXnb04

Pinterest Architecture Update - 18 Million Visitors, 10x Growth,12 Employees, 410 TB of Data Monday, May 21, 2012 at 9:15AM There has been an update on Pinterest: Pinterest growth driven by Amazon cloud scalability since our last post: A Short on the Pinterest Stack for Handling 3+ Million Users .…

The crisis in digital advertising is deep and potentially apocalyptic--so how come nobody's worried? http://t.co/wdDrPSn3

some good ones here - 8 Rules For Creating A Passionate Work Culture - http://t.co/XD9Aw2JR from @fastcompany

"Which CSS preprocessor language should I choose?" is a hot topic lately. I've been asked in person several times and an online debate has been popping up every few days it seems. It's nice that the conversation has largely turned from whether or not preprocessing is a good idea to which one…

“Six hours’ sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool,” Napoleon famously prescribed. (He would have scoffed at Einstein, then, who was known to require ten hours of sleep for optimal performance.) This perceived superiority of those who can get by on less sleep isn’t just something…

Watch out IE, Chrome is ready to take the crown :) http://t.co/HOUnnSGv #browser

Hey Paydirt: Your Site Works Just Fine in IE by @reybango http://t.co/ATOAW8kj "blocking all IE is arrogance, not pragmatism" @codepo8

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Catchy compendium … England's Graham Thorpe claims the wicket of Sri Lanka's Sanath Jayasuriya at the Asgiriya Stadium in 2001. Photograph: Rebecca Naden/PA It isn't surprising that a sport that goes on for days, often without result, inspires this much writing. There are as many tomes on cricket as…

Well read … Ebooks are now equivalent to 6% of physical book sales by value. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian Consumer ebook sales in the UK increased by 366% last year helping to offset a decline in the market for printed books, according to new official figures. Drawing its data from…

British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and social critic Bertrand Russell (May 18, 1872–February 2, 1970) endures as one of the most intellectually diverse and influential thinkers in modern history, his philosophy of religion in particular having shaped the work of such modern atheism…

I want to talk to you about scope creep. No, not the wait, we never talked about e-commerce! kind of scope creep. Too much is said about that variety of scope violation, and frankly, I’m not convinced that it actually qualifies as creep anyway. Most of the time, when that…

Classic: 6 tips on writing from John Steinbeck http://t.co/7Sup9XY6

If you haven't seen this, make it the one thing you watch today: Noam Chomsky on the purpose of education http://t.co/mg09tqIU

Photographs by Peter DaSilva and Byron Smith, for The New York Times WE live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection. At home, families sit together, texting and reading e-mail. At work executives text during board…

Some days everyone needs a little extra encouragement. The words or lines or colors don’t want to come , or worse, we don’t even want to sit down to create . That’s when we turn to these inspiring manifestos, any one of which is guaranteed to give our uncooperative creativity a sharp kick in the…

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There be monsters … Maurice Sendak, children's author, at his home in Connecticut. Photograph: Tim Knox for the Guardian M aurice Sendak looks like one of his own creations: beady eyes, pointy eyebrows, the odd monsterish tuft of hair and a reputation for fierceness that makes you tip-toe up the…

"Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality." http://t.co/108LhcPG

"Failure is not something to be avoided but rather something to be cultivated." This Will Make You Smarter http://t.co/GPIdZJD8

Last Sunday, I taught six kids of ages 5 to 7 how to program. “In what programming language?” you may ask. Well…I didn’t use a programming language, at least none that you know of. In fact, I didn’t even use a computer. Instead, I devised a game called “How To Train Your Robot”. Before I explain how…

I sat on a panel for a conference last year with fellow owners of “boutique” software development firms. I use the word cautiously, as I’m not completely sure what people mean by boutique in this context, but there are usually implications of small size, specialization, and expertise. One of the…

When you’ve got a small group, you don’t need to constantly formalize things. You communicate and you know what’s going on. If you have a question about something, you ask someone. Formalized rules, deadlines, and documents start to seem silly. Everyone’s already on the same page anyway. Ten-groups…

One of the questions we always get asked at meet-ups and conversations with other engineers is, “what’s your stack?” We thought it would be fun to give a sense of all the systems that power Instagram, at a high-level; you can look forward to more in-depth descriptions of some of these systems in the…

The Instagram Architecture Facebook Bought for a Cool Billion Dollars Monday, April 9, 2012 at 12:49PM It's been a well kept secret, but you may have heard Facebook will Buy Photo-Sharing Service Instagram for $1 Billion . Just what is Facebook buying? Here's a quick gloss I did a little over a year…