Extra Future

Year: 2012

  • Coda 2 Released, 50% off Today Only

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    I’ve been using Coda 1 every day for 5 years to do my job. [Coda 2 is great][link], already, and couldn’t be more worth the price ($49.99 today!) If you’re a fan of the alternative CSS syntax [LESS][less], there’s already [a Coda 2 syntax extension for you][ext]. [link]: http://www.panic.com/coda/ “Coda 2” [ext]: https://github.com/bbpaulwelsh/Coda-2-LESS-mode “Coda 2…

  • Eephus League Magazine

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    [There Is But One Game & That Game Is Baseball][link]. A gorgeous, well-written, bit of reading material for your Wednesday. Play ball. via [@mattfraction][via] [link]: http://eephusleague.com/magazine/ “Eephus League Magazine” [via]: http://twitter.com/mattfraction “Matt Fraction on Twitter”

  • Jeffrey Zeldman on his Web Design Manifesto 2012

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    [A follow-up interview with .net Magazine:][link] >If we don’t focus on the content the reader came for – if we continue to bombard and bamboozle our users with cluttered interfaces that satisfy stakeholder committees but frustrate the people who actually want to use our sites – our users will retaliate by removing our designs altogether.…

  • Coda 2

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    [Panic finally announces version 2.0 of Coda. Available May 24th, 2012.][link] I’ve been using Coda 1.x every day as my primary tool for web development since 2007. To say I’m excited about this is an understatement. As you might expect, the product website is gorgeous, innovative, and informative. Hint: Type the backslash key to make…

  • Field Notes Colors: “National Crop” Edition

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    [The spring 2012 Field Notes release][link] is so effortlessly charming that it feels something like Field Notes coming full circle. Draplin has always been fascinated by the working-man no-BS design of old farming equipment, manuals, and almanacs. Now Field Notes is paying a more direct homage to that influence. [link]: http://fieldnotesbrand.com/crop/ “FIELD NOTES COLORS: “NATIONAL…

  • Jeffrey Zeldman’s Web Design Manifesto 2012

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    [In a post full of quote worthy paragraphs][link], he makes the case for bigger type, layouts that don’t train users to ignore ads, and what it used to mean to have a “personal site.” I like it. It’s very Zeldman, but more than that, it’s *interesting*. [link]: http://www.zeldman.com/2012/05/18/web-design-manifesto-2012/ “Web Design Manifesto 2012 – Jeffrey Zeldman…

  • The Inequality Speech That TED Won’t Show You

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    [Sounds like good sense to me.][link] Shame that TED is too spineless to make it available: >We’ve had it backward for the last 30 years. Rich businesspeople like me don’t create jobs. Rather they are a consequence of an eco-systemic feedback loop animated by middle-class consumers, and when they thrive, businesses grow and hire, and…

  • Twitter Implements Do Not Track Privacy Option

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    [Another big privacy / security win for Twitter][link]. They’re using a new feature in Firefox called, appropriately, “[Do Not Track][dnt]”: >Do Not Track is a step toward putting you in control of the way your information is collected and used online. Do Not Track is a feature in Firefox that allows you to let a…

  • MESS in a browser!

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    Phil Nelson
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    [A project attempting to port the MESS emulation framework to JavaScript.][link] This is noble work. [link]: http://jsmess.textfiles.com/ “MESS in a browser!”

  • DVDs and Blu-rays will now carry two unskippable government warnings

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    [Guess who doesn’t have to watch these warnings? Pirates.][link] ICE is essentially penalizing people who already pay money for DVDs and Blu-Ray by making them watch two stupid videos before they can watch their legally-obtained DVDs. Pathetic. [link]: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/05/dvds-and-blu-rays-will-now-carry-two-unskippable-government-warnings/ “DVDs and Blu-rays will now carry two unskippable government warnings | Ars Technica”

  • How Deep Can You Dig Dug?

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    [Don Hodges fixes Dig Dug’s kill screen.][link] Either you’re interested in someone fixing a 20+ year-old video game’s biggest bug, or you aren’t. [link]: http://donhodges.com/How_Deep_Can_You_Dig_Dug.htm “DONHODGES.COM – HOW DEEP CAN YOU DIG DUG?  FIXING DIGDUG'S KILL SCREEN”

  • Opera confirms WebKit prefix usage

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    [Mozilla, Microsoft, and Opera are none too happy][link] about Webkit’s prefixes becoming a sort of organic standard, especially on mobile: >Opera, along with Microsoft and Mozilla, announced at a CSS Working Group meeting that we would support some WebKit prefixes. This is because too many authors of mobile sites only use the WebKit-prefixed version, and…