Best of 2011

What I learned from a month of blogging and 250k visits

How Not to Design a Home Page

Academic VC2011135 points24 commentsDesign & UX details

I don’t envy the print publications. First Web browsers, now iPads… new technology is destabilizing the very underpinnings of their business models. But some are adapting better than ot…

Dennis Ritchie has died

Pythonmeister2011135 points2 commentsHistory & Retro Computing details

Suspension, Ban or Hellban?

My ideas are shitty so I'm going on an Internet diet

Swizec Teller2011134 points84 commentsLife, Learning & Writing details

Hi 👋 you're reading a pretty old post! I started writing on here back in high school and this page may not reflect my current views. Recommend checking out related articles and categories down below, I've likely published more recent thoughts on this topic.

PHP: Cracks in the foundation

Xmonad 0.10 was released

Haskell.org2011134 points69 commentsSoftware Engineering details

This page is for keeping a record of significant changes in darcs xmonad and xmonad-contrib since the 0.9 releases. See darcs changes in the source repositories for the patches and more details covering documentation and bug fixes not noted here. Xmonad 0.9 was released on 26 October 2009, and Xmonad 0.10 on 18…

JavaScript and URLs

Chris Shiflett2011134 points69 commentsWeb & Frontend details

Scala At Yammer (Official position on Scala)

Amber.js (formerly SproutCore 2.0) is now Ember.js (and released)

Yehuda Katz2011134 points53 commentscited by 6Software Engineering details

After we announced Amber.js last week, a number of people brought Amber Smalltalk, a Smalltalk implementation written in JavaScript, to our attention. After some communication with the folks behind Amber Smalltalk, we started a discussion on Hacker News [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3335916] about what we should

Leaving JSPs in the dust: moving LinkedIn to dust.js client-side templates

LinkedIn Engineering Blog2011134 points41 commentscited by 3Web & Frontend details

Linode announces new datacenter location, Japan

Linode Blog2011134 points37 commentsInfrastructure & DevOps details

The W3C asks for help finding Prior Art to two Apple Patents.

The W3C seeks information about access control systems available before October 2005 and content distribution systems before April 2006 that offer a viable solution that may apply to the use of access requests policy in Widgets . Such information could suggest ways to define a specification that can achieve the…

The 44 Chromosome Man

The Tech Interactive2011134 points32 commentsScience & Space details

How My Lifestyle Business Became a Startup

FASO Blog2011134 points30 commentsStartups details

Introducing NodeBalancer, load-balancer-as-a-service

Linode Blog2011134 points24 commentsInfrastructure & DevOps details

Introducing appointment slots in Google Calendar

Gmail Blog2011134 points13 commentsWeb & Frontend details

Posted by Irene Chung, Software Engineer Google Calendar has become indispensable for organizing my own time and sharing my schedule with...

Microsoft refuses to comment as .NET developers fret about Windows 8

Tim Anderson2011133 points162 commentsTech Industry & Business details

There is a long discussion over on the official Silverlight forum about Microsoft’s Windows 8 demo at D9 and what was said, and not said; and another over on Channel 9 , Microsoft’s video-centric community site for developers.

The Problem with Implicit Scoping in CoffeeScript

Armin Ronacher2011133 points134 commentscited by 3Web & Frontend details

A longer explanation of why I think that the CoffeeScript scoping is problematic and should be changed.

Why the iPhone 5 never arrived

Google Android: The Accidental Empire

Tumblr "Disappears" Microsoft's Danah Boyd

danah boyd2011133 points93 commentsSociety, Policy & Culture details

Update: Tumblr called me, apologized, and restored my account. More details below.

House Keys copyable from 200 ft away via camera

UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering2011133 points69 commentscited by 4Security & Privacy details

 UC San Diego computer scientists have built a software program that can perform key duplication without having the key. Instead, the computer scientists only need a photograph of the key.

C'mon, stop writing Java for Android

thoughtbot Blog2011133 points64 commentsSoftware Engineering details

Stop writing Java for your Android apps! There are a slew of ways to build...

Close Tab Behaviour in Google Chrome

Tabs, tabs, tabs. The specialist subject of UI experts everywhere. Should tabs just rearrange horizontally or also detach? How much vertical scroll buffer should a tab have before it detaches? Under what circumstances should it detach? What about reattaching?

Scala == Effective Java?

Graham Hacking Scala2011133 points55 commentsProgramming Languages details

I started reading Joshua Bloch's Effective Java last week. I'll have to admit that I haven't read it before, but only because I've been told...

YouTube Videos Now Served in WebM

YouTube Blog2011133 points55 commentsWeb & Frontend details

The world of online video is incredibly complex and dynamic. Yet, our goal is to ensure that nothing stands between you and the great content you’ve always enjoyed. We’ll continue to invest in new video technology that improves the experiences for all users, builds a better infrastructure for online video, leads to…

Paul Graham and not being as right as he could be in “The Age of the Essay”

Jake Seliger2011133 points51 commentsLife, Learning & Writing details

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Chrome Developer Tools: Back to Basics

Chromium Blog2011133 points43 commentsWeb & Frontend details

It’s been an exciting past few months in the Google Chrome Developer Tools world as we keep adding new features, while polishing up existin...