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Great great post on why you cannot just take performance tips as facts. You must constantly evaluate to see if they are *still* facts. Most perf hacks depend on the browser's existing behaviour which are constantly being changed for the better.

brilliabt use of rasterize & tracing in Ilustrator to mimic vintage print effect.

This is a great list of things that *cannot* be your excuses or focus-funnels when you create stuff. I especially like the one where 'it does not matter whose fault it is'.

Cleartrip is a very awesome Indian travel reservation site & Sriram Karra writes about how they are working on a small service within it called Small World that tries to do geographically 'nearby' searches

Cleartrip is a very awesome Indian travel reservation site & Sriram Karra writes about how they are working on a small service within it called Small World that tries to do geographically 'nearby' searches

Wow this is great set of research done on drunk users. This is amazing because I find myself most uninhibited when intoxicated, and less capable of adjusting my behaviour to confirm to the judgements of the observer. Please watch this to understand all the typical user frustrations with using a web page.

Wow this is great set of research done on drunk users. This is amazing because I find myself most uninhibited when intoxicated, and less capable of adjusting my behaviour to confirm to the judgements of the observer. Please watch this to understand all the typical user frustrations with using a web page.

There is now a CSS Filters polyfill that brings most of the functionality of native CSS Filters to almost all browsers except IE10 & above.

An experiment in using discretionary ligatures to show the time differently. Very interesting to see fonts compete with SVG in a sense to provide accessible yet beautiful representations of data (like Chartwell: http://tktype.com/chartwe...). Fonts do mask most of the magic that happens, which means you do not have the ability to edit them. But SVG has really verbose & incomprehensible syntax.

There is now a CSS Filters polyfill that brings most of the functionality of native CSS Filters to almost all browsers except IE10 & above.

An experiment in using discretionary ligatures to show the time differently. Very interesting to see fonts compete with SVG in a sense to provide accessible yet beautiful representations of data (like Chartwell: http://tktype.com/chartwe...). Fonts do mask most of the magic that happens, which means you do not have the ability to edit them. But SVG has really verbose & incomprehensible syntax.

Pretty good list of how to be a productive programmer.

Pretty good list of how to be a productive programmer.

The content of this talk has been espoused before several times. Yet, we do not see people optimizing their sites for web performance. This talk summaries with statistics how much of a big deal performance improvements can be and how significant. At the very least, you can be inspired to consider optimizing your sites for better performance.

The content of this talk has been espoused before several times. Yet, we do not see people optimizing their sites for web performance. This talk summaries with statistics how much of a big deal performance improvements can be and how significant. At the very least, you can be inspired to consider optimizing your sites for better performance.

This is a great set of slides to start your understanding of how rendering works on WebKit.

This is a great set of slides to start your understanding of how rendering works on WebKit.

This post is the best introduction to requireJS I have seen so far.

Must must read. Just replace mathematics with JavaScript or HTML or CSS and you get the idea. This is how you self-learn and this is important more than ever nowadays when we have new technologies coming out every day.

Must must read. Just replace mathematics with JavaScript or HTML or CSS and you get the idea. This is how you self-learn and this is important more than ever nowadays when we have new technologies coming out every day.

This post is the best introduction to requireJS I have seen so far.

@esparadine writes on the travails & troubles of making the JS console more intuitive & how various browsers handle this. He also notes that the console API is the most functional and consistent cross-browser API that does not have a spec :) Makes you wonder why we get into speccing things before creating APIs to begin with (see http://smus.com/how-the... ).

Jason Kiss is back again with tests on support for ARIA Widgets & focus/forms mode in JAWS & NVDA.

Most of everything I do in programming has to do with manipulating text in some way. So the first thing to master when learning a new text editor would be how to manipulate text. This post goes a long way in identifying shortcuts for most common tasks in Sublime Text.

If you wanted to test your rewrite rules and conditions for apache. Unsure if this works or not though :)

Very nice.

This looks like a great interface for API documentation, especially the "Try it out" button.

I didn't know it had a name! A catalogue of animations from the very early era, where they were technically scrolling comic strips. Felix the cat, Betty Boop, etc.

Sitecounter is often cited as the go-to reference for browser data. But this is significantly better data given Akamai powers a lot of assets for popular websites. What might be depressing is IE occupies still 49% of market share. But if you drill down, it looks like IE7 has only 12% (and IE6 gets covered in 'Other browsers'). I wish more CDNs offered browser data.

Alan Kay - "Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs."