The Perfect Website
This website is perfect:
http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
- Lightweight and loads fast
- Fits on all screens
- Looks the same in all browsers
- Accessible to everyone that visits your site
- Legible and gets your point across
Category Archives: Links
Why I Love Reading Other People’s Code And You Should Too
“Being good at reading code is important to your survival as a professional developer. Any non-trivial project these days will be a team effort and so there will always be large chunks of code you had no hand in which you have to work with, modify and extend. And so, code reading will likely be the most used and most useful skill you can have; better bite the bullet and get good at it – fast.”
Colonials Debate: Should Essayists Also Master The Mechanisms Of The Printing Press?
For those not in the know, this is satirizing the great “should journalists learn to code” debate of October 2013. (I note the date because it seems to recur every year or so.)
The Side-Project Project
My problem with side-projects is that I never think an idea is good enough…
git + webcam = lol
git + webcam = lolcommits.
teach yourself to code
teach yourself to code, resources for people to want to learn programming. By Kate Ray.
The Miso Project :: Dataset
“Dataset is a JavaScript client-side data transformation and management library. Dataset makes managing client-side data easy by handling loading, parsing, sorting, querying & manipulating data from all sorts of sources.”
Introducing the data journalism handbook
Introducing the data journalism handbook | guardian.co.uk
“The launch of the Data Journalism Handbook next week is the result of a unique journalistic collaboration…The book’s contributors are a who’s who of data journalism. There are pieces by data journalists from the BBC, the Chicago Tribune, the Financial Times, Propublica and the New York Times. And that’s besides contributions from three of us at the Guardian.”