From a great blog article comparing our service vs Tumblr's at raddevon.com. Yellow gloves FTW. Man, I want these on little keychains and stuff.
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Here are my quick notes from SXSW talk "More Secrets of Javascript LIbraries"
Bundling/dynamic loading (Nate Koechley, YUI)
Javascript files for modern websites really have gotten huge. So it makes a difference how you load them. Some cool tools mentioned:
Meta language libraries (Andrew Dupont, Prototype)
Google Caja sounds like a fascinating way to allow rich JS embeds on-page, perhaps solving the XSS dangers of embedding 3rd party JS. Definitely going to check that out later.
Dupont points to Resig's blog post about JavaScript Language Abstractions that a lot of these meta-language libs actually divorce you from being able to harness the full power of Javascript because you never actually learn how to write it. "Thicker abstractions have more hassle, but offer greater rewards." --Andrew Dupont At the end of the day, I think you use the tools that work best for you. I love what the guys are doing at 280 North, but a site like Posterous probably wouldn't use it because we're more of a native web experience. And in talking to them, they're not meant as a replacement for Prototype, etc. Cappuccino is really for extra-rich internet apps where you might use Flash/Air, instead of classic native websites. So different strokes for different folks!Pretty cool stuff coming -- hopefully browser support comes sooner rather than later, since that determines when we'll be viably able to use these new standards. Might have to switch to jQuery to take advantage of this on Posterous.
The Idea is to tunnel all outgoing traffic through DNS. Yes, you heard right, through DNS, the Domain Name System, used to translate human-readable hostnames to numerical IP addresses and vice versa.
Pretty interesting/novel way... Unix admin skills required, but it's probably better that way.
Luckily I don't ever have to worry about this anymore -- I pretty much just use my Sprint 3G USB modem when I'm out and about.
Just found this illustration massively striking.
Inspiring amateur and semi-pro fashion and fashion photography.
Before posterous, I was building out a bit of a fashion/portrait portfolio, and doing some editorial magazine work. Maybe after we push out a few more of these huge features, I'll be able to do some more photo projects here and there.
I was thinking of doing 52-Week portrait project -- one portrait per week for a whole year. I think I know what blog platform I'd use for it. ;-)
I think this is the first 'posterous' exclusive discount I've heard of yet.
Reggie Soang (who has a totally amazing food blog) has started a new brand of healthy food products called iFS, and he's giving everyone a 10% discount if you type the 'posterous' code into the checkout.
I know I'm going to buy some -- $8.95 for a 1 lbs. bag of delicious granola from a guy who really knows food and nutrition looks like a great deal. =)
Neil’s new book, Emergency, teaches you how to become Jason Bourne.
Multiple passports, moving assets, lock-picking, escape and evasion, foraging, even how to cross borders without detection (one preferred location: McAllen, Texas, page 390)–it’s a veritable encyclopedia of for those who want to disappear or become lawsuit-proof global citizens…
This looks like it could be useful at some point in the future. *grin*
It's Detroit week on garry's posterous. The latest installment: some fast facts that bring a lot more clarity to the situation in America's most maligned city.
Matt Labash at the Weekly Standard wrote an incredible piece on the city entitled The City Where Sirens Never Sleep: Detroit is dying. But it's not dead yet. -- A truly fascinating must-read. Check it out. Hat tip to vpescado. In addition to the facts above -- a detailed, heart-wrenching journey through the history of leaders who wrought this American failure and the people who now must live in its aftermath.
(Photos from forgottenmichigan.com)
Brilliant. Major hat tip to master designer Dustin Curtis, who has posted the brand guide to his posterous.