1. The best way to fight experience rot is to say ‘no’ to everything except the most essential of features.

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    Know that approach from a specific company…

    Via: Experience Rot

  2. Steve Jobs: Secrets of Life (von SCVHA)

  3. Framework simplicity is good if your application is meant to be simple. But you should be cautious when choosing simplicity if your application is ambitious and you care about supporting it for a long time.

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    Good summary!

    Via: AngularJS vs Ember - Evil Trout’s Blog

  4. In conclusion, in a SPDY world, XHRs are requested at low priority (except sync XHRs), and are opaque to the browser. Using declarative markup like enables the browser to do appropriate resource prioritization.

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    Interesting!

    Shubhie Panicker - Google - Interesting results from an experiment I ran recently to…

  5. Was Mietern und Käufern in den Städten tatsächlich nützen würde, steht leider in keinem der Programme: Zügige Bereitstellung von Bauland zu einem fairen Preis. Dies lässt sich jedoch nicht so leicht per Bundesgesetz festlegen und im Wahlkampf unterbringen, sondern erfordert konkrete Arbeit in den Ländern und Gemeinden.

    — Wohnungsmarkt : Politik ignoriert wahren Grund für Mietpreisanstieg - Nachrichten Geld - Immobilien - DIE WELT

  6. If services don’t trust me enough to give me an RSS feed, why should I trust them with my data?

    — Adactio: Journal—Battle for the planet of the APIs

  7. Die ehemals besten Lagen der Städte sehen einander immer ähnlicher, ersticken in ihrer Uniformität und den Abfällen von Legionen von Fast-Food-Buden.

    — INSM – Schöpferische Zerstörung

  8. Die Wähler gelten der Berliner Politik-Riege als eine Art Altenheimwohngruppe, deren Mitglieder unter weit fortgeschrittenem Gedächtnisverlust leiden. Diesen Wählern wird das Blaue vom Himmel herunter versprochen im Vertrauen darauf, dass sie das alles wieder vergessen. Denn liefern will und kann keiner.

    — Wirtschaftswoche - Roland Tichy: Holland(e)isierung « Chefsache

  9. 13 hours and 29 minutes. That’s all you really need to know — that’s how long the new MacBook Air running Safari lasted running the Verge Battery Test.

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    Killer!

    Via: MacBook Air review (13-inch, 2013) | The Verge

  10. The best thing you can do is just capture values such as scrollTop in your scroll handlers, and then use the most recent value inside a requestAnimationFrame callback.

    — Gone In 60 Frames Per Second: A Pinterest Paint Performance Case Study | Smashing Magazine

  11. I need to see everything, not just what’s popular, to do my job.

    — Why Facebook isn’t the right company to create a Google Reader replacement — Tech News and Analysis

  12. OSX Mavericks: Core Technology Overview [PDF] →

    Interesting PDF on the technology behind OS X Mavericks. Especially liked: Compressed Memory, App Nap, Timer Coalescing and SMB2.

  13. There isn’t a single great work in the history of civilization, no novel, symphony, film, or song that was completed as a 1/5th time-slice between e-mail, IM, cellphones and television.

    — #51 – Attention and sex

  14. Apple doesn’t do NFC. And that speaks volumes. Don’t forget, NFC is not new. It’s been kicking around in phones since forever. And Apple still reckons it sucks.

    — NFC Stands For Nobody F****** Cares And Apple Gets That | TechCrunch

  15. Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or deep empathy.

    — How Not to Be Alone - NYTimes.com