Extra Future[A full-responsive, CSS3-enabled, touch-ready, arrow-key supporting, draggable carousel that you can instance with one line.][link]
Having built and used probably a dozen different image slider / content carousels this one looks like it covers all of the bases and with minimal markup bullshit. Color me impressed.
[link]: http://kenwheeler.github.io/slick/ “slick – the last carousel you'll ever need”
[Github has added a new “Zen mode” button to all text areas on the site][link], the clicking of which will grow the writing area to the full window size, hiding the rest of the page, so you can focus on writing without distractions.
[link]: https://github.com/blog/1379-zen-writing-mode “Zen Writing Mode ยท GitHub Blog”
[Some astute analysis][link] from a developer who truly gets what making effective user interfaces for iOS devices entails.
[link]: http://www.marco.org/3991237704 “Marco.org – Why the Quick Bar (dickbar) is still so offensive”
[A jQuery plugin that makes reordering rows, sorting, and show/hide look absolutely great][link]. The plugin’s page is itself a perfect demo for the tech. At something like 2kb minified I’m wondering how I lived without it.
[link]: http://isotope.metafizzy.co/ “Isotope”
[This is what comes up when I double-click the Fireworks uninstaller.][link] It’s like these applications were designed by angry, angry, monks.
[link]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/zerolives/4902173236/ “Screenshot on Flickr”
[Sketched and screenshotted examples of what the Chrome OS (the open source project is called Chromium) is going to look like][link]. The goal is a noble one: An OS that boots super fast (under 10 seconds), gives you instant access to a modern web browser (WebKit) and gets the hell out of your way.
I am on board with that.
[link]: http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/user-experience “User Experience (The Chromium Projects)”