The Letter - link dump

Link dump #151

Wed, 08 May 2013 07:25:00 +0000

PaySwarm - a universal payment standard for the web
Winners of the 2013 Sony World Photography Awards
Parsleyjs - handy form validation script, uses jQuery and data attributes
I <3 image bytes - images are the most important bytes in the page, don't you know?
CODING.FM - the sound of coding
Shapeshift - an open source jQuery plugin which will dynamically arrange a collection of elements into a column grid system similar to Pinterest
Google Poetics
Quietweet - a read-only Twitter client, which ignores all tweets containing @s, #s or links
Pictures of families with what they eat each week
What your profile picture says about you
How frequently should we update our homepage?
Retinize It - Photoshop actions for preparing images for Retina-display websites
Download Google fonts to your desktop
U.S. Government's never ending quest to design the most difficult-to-manufacture object
Snap.js - handy navigation solution for small screens

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 06:05:00 +0000

SublimeText / BufferScroll - plug-in that remembers your folded code
Jamie Jones's favourite tracks
Flexy Boxes - flexbox playground and code generator
Start using the File API
jQuery 2.0 Released
Beautiful mix from Subjected, - orchestral, accoustic and graceful. Includes tracks from Nils Frahm, Kangding Ray, Johann Johannsson and Aphex Twin
Persona, Mozilla’s easy and safe way to log into your favourite websites, using any modern browser, is now in Beta 2
Accessible Data Tables - brush up on your tables
FriendFracker - randomly delete some of your Facebook friends
10 Best Tools to Compare and Test Website Loading Time
Fast is an incredibly, incredibly stressful thing to try and do (Radware podcast)
Top tips for Wordpress security
Technodating.co.uk - dating site for Techno lovers... now that's niche!
HEX to RGB Converter - handy
Seinan Music - home of music makers Sei A and Logan

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:10:00 +0000

ScotlandJS - two day JavaScript event, held in Edinburgh on May 9th & 10th
Nice mix from Nick Hoppner - includes Claro Intelecto, Autechre and Redshape
Front-end Code Standards & Best Practices - could be a useful resource
Here's something the internet can't do that a magazine can - hmm
Code Beautifier and CleanCSS - tidy up your CSS
Handy overview of new HTML form input types and attributes. I'm particularly keen on the pattern functionality, that let's you set a regular expression for the browser to validate against
Dubuggex - a visual regular expression debugger, tester, and helper
Designing with context - who's using what type of device to do something in which location?
Why I Left Google
No to NoUI - response from Timo Arnall on the idea that the best interface is no interface
The Short Cuts - the main points from all Matt Cutts' videos
The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web - a practical guide to web typography

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:43:00 +0000

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 17:03:00 +0000