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February 2012
- Twitter ♥ Open Source
- Twitter has a bunch of open source stuff that we can use.
January 2012
- A Beginners Guide to HTML & CSS
- Looks like a nice intro to HTML and CSS.
- Kern And Burn
- An online and print publication that curates discussions, interviews, and essays about design entrepreneurship.
- Git Immersion
- A guided tour that walks through the fundamentals of Git.
- Eloquent JavaScript
- An interactive JavaScript tutorial.
- Switch to OSM
- A guide for switching to OpenStreetMap.
- The Science of Magic Series
- A series of easy magic tricks made available for the purpose of teaching students about how to apply the scientific method.
- CartoDB
- A cloud-based geospatial database.
- HandBrake Batch
- An app that uses HandBrake and allows you to drag and drop a bunch of files at the same time.
- Goodbye, Google Maps
- StreetEasy made their own maps using OpenStreetMap, TileMill, MapBox, and Leaflet.
- Mattebox
- An iPhone camera app, designed from the ground up with the heart of a luxury point and shoot.
- Million Mile Secrets
- A pretty good travel hacking blog.
- Updating a Menu Based on Page Location
- Kenton Glass explains how to update a menu as the user scrolls.
- Code Year
- Get a new interactive programming lesson sent to you each week.
December 2011
- AntiMap
- The AntiMap is an open source toolset for recording and visualizing your own data.
- Prettymaps
- An experimental map from Stamen Design. It is an interactive map composed of multiple freely available, community-generated data sources.
- PixelPhones
- A huge display made with smart phones.
- The Industry
- Aims to be something like TechCrunch for the design community.
- Makedo
- For the MacGyver in all of us, a set of connectors for creating things from the stuff around you.
- Vim Revisited
- Great intro to Vim that focuses on starting simply.
- Little Big Details
- A daily dose of design inspiration.
- Spire.io
- Provides secure, reliable, and scalable APIs for web and mobile apps.
- CORS: An Insufficient Solution for Same-Origin Restrictions
- A blog post from Louis-Rémi talking about the problems with CORS.
November 2011
- Mapvelopes
- A map envelope generator. I loved this idea when it was an idea and am glad to see someone did it.
- Safety Maps
- Make and share maps of safe places to meet in the event of an emergency.
- OOptOut
- Chrome extension for modifying, or opting out of, Facebook permissions.
- Hastebin
- Sharing code is a good thing, and it should be really easy to do it.
- Little Printer
- Little Printer lives in your home, bringing you news, puzzles and gossip from friends. Use your smartphone to set up subscriptions and Little Printer will gather them together to create a timely, beautiful mini-newspaper.
- Factual Places
- Database of local businesses and points of interest from around the world.
- What's In A GIF
- A very detailed, and illustrated, explanation of the GIF format.
- Equity Investment Simulation
- Tool for calculating and visualizing equity dilution in startups.
- LayerVault
- Simple version control for designers.
- Asynchronous UIs
- Nice post from Alex MacCaw advocating for UIs that never block for background processing.
- ExtendNY
- A map showing where you are based on the Manhattan grid.
- Invisibility for iPad
- An app that makes your iPad invisible. Pretty neat idea. Mediocre reviews.
- Grove.io
- Hosted IRC and a decent web client.
- iPad and iPhone Application Development
- Slides and lectures from a Stanford class on iOS development by Paul Hegarty.
- Unconventional Guides
- A very small business with the goal of helping people do more of what they are most excited about.
- Travel Hacking Cartel
- Earn lots of frequent flyer miles without flying.
- Bits Blog
- http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/feed/
- Are We Playing Yet?
- An interactive HTML5 audio test suite.
- Sandwich Video
- We make videos, mostly for neat tech products.
- Obliterate Startup Depression
- Honest account of the highs and lows of running a startup.
- Castle.so
- Upload and share your files, beautifully.
- Melvin the Machine
- Melvin the Machine is a Rube Goldberg machine with a twist.
- GET, POST, and Safely Surfacing More of the Web
- Google is going to start sending POST requests as it crawls the Web.
- Kuvva
- Kuvva changes your desktop and Twitter background into a daily source of inspiration.
October 2011
- Maps 3D WebGL
- Very cool map from Nokia using WebGL.
- Brooklyn Beta Radio
- The Brooklyn Beta radio show put together by Skylar and Aymie.
- Dart
- New web programming language from Google.
