yoz's bookmarks

• How to win a grant 2013/07/22
  "Skip the long-winded argument on why your idea—your life’s work—deserves institutional support, and instead do this:"
• Bullies Called Him Pork Chop. He Took That Pain With Him And Then Cooked It Into This. 2013/04/12
  Amazing multi-artist video for Shane Koyczan's poem about being bullied.
• learnfun and playfun: A general technique for automating NES games 2013/04/11
  Algorithmically analysing recorded gameplay and in-memory value increments to ascertain scoring techniques. The video is fantastic and funny, and the algorithm finds some useful bugs in the games.
• How we use Redis at Bump - Bump Dev Blog 2011/07/16
  How Redis became Bump's Swiss Army Knife to solve all kinds of data-related problems
• Heroku | The New Heroku (Part 4 of 4): Erosion-resistance & Explicit Contracts 2011/06/29
  Fascinating description of how Heroku's recent changes are aimed at killing software erosion (or what I think of as "bitrot").
• What are the most interesting HTML/JS/DOM/CSS hacks that most web developers don't know about? - Quora 2011/06/17
  Marvellous collection of JS, CSS & HTML hacks. Did you know you can get the browser to parse a URL or escape HTML for you, with existing JS functions? (via gnat)
• Avatars In Motion 2011/05/21
  "This blog is to show all the beauty you can find in Second Life." Gorgeous photography of great SL locations. (via Hamlet)
• Gabe Newell on Valve | Game development | Features by Develop 2011/05/14
  Great, inspirational interview on how they hire and organise.
• Design @ Quora (Web2.0 Expo Presentat... by Rebekah Cox - Quora 2011/05/03
  "Great design is all the work you don't ask the people who use your products to do."
• David Kelley on Designing Curious Employees | Fast Company 2011/04/20
  "In this interview, he explains why leaders should seek understanding rather than blind obedience, why it’s better to be a coach and a taskmaster and why you can’t teach leadership with a PowerPoint presentation."