h1. JR : Scratchpad

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2013 stories to read or read again. #readlater

h2. Oct 29

Making a minimal wordpress theme — what’s really essential? https://medium.com/design-ux/cf2717849c1a


h2. Oct 28

http://jimromenesko.com/2013/10/28/the-politico-culture-explained/

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/28/opinion/a-conversation-in-lieu-of-a-column.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/10/28/keller-vs-greenwald-why-not-both/


April 5, 2007: "Show HN, Dropbox" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6625306 --> (2007 post by Drew Houston) --> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 

How Kentucky Built the Country's Best Obamacare Website 
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/how-kentucky-built-the-country-s-best-obamacare-website 
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6626739 

Progress report on cross-platform Open Web Apps
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/10/progress-report-on-cross-platform-open-web-apps/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6627555
https://hacks.mozilla.org/category/apps/


h2. Oct 25

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/10/the-psychology-of-online-comments.html

http://www.usv.com/posts/welcome-to-the-new-usvcom

http://scripting.com/2013/10/24/unionSquarePutsNewsOnTheirHomePage


h2. Oct 24

Touch The Sky with HTML5 - 15 Exclusive HTML5 Tools For Web Developers https://medium.com/design-ux/1194132aba2f 

Start Something: The Power of Side Projects - Little Projects that have Changed the World - https://medium.com/design-ux/648223f673af

Why Success Is Really Simple - Don’t think about it “Too Much!” https://medium.com/design-ux/3a42501f6fc0 

http://blogs.reuters.com/jackshafer/2013/10/23/move-over-bezos-espn-can-do-news-better-than-you/


h2. Oct 23

The coolness of Medium explained from a JSON
https://medium.com/tech-talk/89bc0d679c1a
https://gist.github.com/vinceprignano/6995546

http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/22/lg-fireweb/

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/22/skysql-raises-20m-to-support-open-source-relational-database-mariadb/


h2. Oct 22

Fine UX: flat design in the late 1800's - How Manet’s style has more in common with iOS7 than you might think https://medium.com/design-ux/562ffea55535

How I Improved My Typography Skills - 5 resources for learning the basics. https://medium.com/design-ux/6d0dfe09ddee
http://www.kaikkonendesign.fi/typography/#section/1


http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115020/syrias-news-smugglers-they-go-where-professional-journalists-wont


h2. Oct 21

http://www.fastcolabs.com/3020218/why-wordpress-gobbled-up-this-scrappy-icloud-alternative

http://business.time.com/2013/10/21/google-digital-rebels/

http://adactio.com/journal/6537/


h2. Oct 19

http://pandodaily.com/2013/09/17/former-facebook-editor-launches-beacon-a-platform-that-pays-journalists/

http://paper.li/

http://viniciusvacanti.com/2010/12/20/the-shortcut-we-took-to-build-yipit-in-three-days/

http://www.lejeunesbakery.com


h2. Oct 18

3 Things That People With Good Habits Do Differently https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/a20e90836eb7 

Ghost is out and amazing - https://medium.com/design-ux/b88e1afc89e0

Responsive design trickles down - https://medium.com/design-ux/5257e36981de

Text-only UIs - https://medium.com/design-ux/26e74d719081



h2. Oct 15

http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/03/discoverable-tests-and-creating-testing-standards.html


h2. Oct 14

http://ghost.onolan.org/travelllll-post-mortem/

https://www.digitalocean.com - hosting

http://redecentralize.org/ --- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6543846
http://www.servalproject.org/
https://arkos.io/
http://mediagoblin.org/
http://cryptosphere.org/
https://www.zerotier.com/
http://drogul.us/


http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/10/why-microsoft-word-must-die.html 
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6537471

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/10/a-necessary-evil-what-it-takes-for-democracy-to-survive-surveillance/

h2. Oct 12

https://www.subtome.com

Envisioning the future of File Systems - How tags & smart search could change the way we organize personal data - https://medium.com/medium-ideas/3c3883c8540b 

What does designing in the browser mean
https://medium.com/design-ux/3ccb1dfad980

Responding to the new mobile landscape
https://medium.com/tech-talk/4d36dba01249


h2. Oct 9

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24458783

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2011/03/07/you-can-increase-your-intelligence-5-ways-to-maximize-your-cognitive-potential/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6522901

http://danielmall.com/articles/now-with-responsive/


http://jothut.com/cgi-bin/junco.pl/blogpost/95/30Jul2013/CSS-media-queries-width-versus-devicewidth


http://jothut.com/cgi-bin/junco.pl/blogpost/312/22May2013/Hacker-News-post-about-current-Web-design-trends



h2. Oct  8

http://gawker.com/meet-silk-roads-alleged-drug-lord-a-29-year-old-calif-1440275594

http://gawker.com/silk-roads-downfall-killed-the-dream-of-the-dark-net-1441310875

http://humanjavascript.com


h2. Oct 4

http://waterpigs.co.uk/notes/4RPKPs/

http://indiewebcamp.com/indieauth

http://indiewebcamp.com/POSSE

http://waterpigs.co.uk/notes?tagged=taproot

http://indiewebcamp.com/webactions

http://waterpigs.co.uk/notes/1100/

http://indiewebcamp.com/Taproot

http://news.indiewebcamp.com/

http://aaronparecki.com/notes/2012/09/09/3/indieweb
http://aaronparecki.com/notes/2013/04/25/1/original-post-discovery

http://aaronparecki.com/notes/2013/03/31/1/indieweb 
https://github.com/indieweb/mention-client-php

http://aaronparecki.com/notes/2013/03/31/1/indieweb.json


http://waterpigs.co.uk/articles/statuses-updates-notes-mess/

http://indiewebcamp.com/Semantics_Of_Article-Note_Distinction

http://indiewebcamp.com/reply-context

http://aaronparecki.com/articles/2012/10/22/1/creating-content-on-the-indie-web

http://indiewebcamp.com/p3k

http://indiewebcamp.com/notes

http://indiewebcamp.com/articles

http://aaronparecki.com/articles/2012/08/23/1/you-should-not-be-displaying-relative-dates

http://waterpigs.co.uk/articles/blogging-policy/

https://willnorris.com/2013/08/a-place-to-call-home

https://willnorris.com/2013/08/jailbreaking-the-internet

https://plus.google.com/+MikeElgan/posts/DHAsXKwr6AR

https://plus.google.com/+MikeElgan/posts/DHAsXKwr6AR

https://willnorris.com/2013/08/testing-in-go-github



h2. Oct 3

http://latticelabs.com/blog/2013/09/premium-freemium-subscription/

http://ruben.verborgh.org/

http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/why-functional-programming-why-haskell.html


h2. Oct 2

http://www.airpair.com/pair-programming/our-future

http://dave.smallpict.com/2013/09/30/whatILearnedAtTheEvernoteConference

http://inessential.com/2013/10/01/vesper_sync_diary_1

http://daringfireball.net/2013/09/vesper_whats_new_whats_next

https://eschnou.com/entry/so-so-true-thinkbig-rt-alexbanayan-when-you-are-surrounded-by-people--24948-8867064.html

http://tantek.com/2013/272/t3/atom-feed-reduced-subscribe-home-page-h-entry

http://tantek.com/2013/272/t2/atom-inefficient-required-artificial-precision



h2. Sep 27

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/top-stories/221138/nprs-new-redesign-aims-to-create-a-less-overwhelming-reading-experience/

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/09/your-story-is-ready-medium-experiments-with-the-homepage-of-the-future/280026/


h2. Sep 26

http://gitolite.com/gcs/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6450191

 - http://open311.org
 - https://speakerdeck.com/nickgrossman/cities-that-work-like-the-web
 - http://openplans.org

http://www.codeforamerica.org

http://tympanus.net/codrops/2012/04/03/color-and-emotion-what-does-each-hue-mean/

https://medium.com/help-center/128f049a7ad

https://medium.com/design-ux/c34e0def892

https://medium.com/design-ux/587b66677bf3

https://medium.com/design-ux/dd0991c7c4d5

http://joekraus.com/were-creating-a-culture-of-distraction


h2. Sep 25

http://hackerjournalist.net/2013/09/25/if-it-doesnt-work-on-mobile-it-doesnt-work/

http://idno.co

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/22/magazine/no-comments.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0


h2. Sep 23

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/09/23/this-hacker-might-seem-shady-but-throwing-him-in-jail-is-bad-for-everyone/


h2. Sep 21

http://source.mozillaopennews.org/en-US/learning/kill-all-your-darlings/
http://tantek.pbworks.com/w/page/19402879/CommunicationProtocols


h2. Sep 20

http://www.beatmuseum.org/

http://ghost.onolan.org/what-it-means-to-be-non-profit

http://jothut.com/cgi-bin/junco.pl/microblogpost/5288 - raspberry pi
[[Web-based editors]]
http://www.bentobox.io/
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2353818/how-do-i-get-started-with-node-js/5511507#5511507


h2. Sep 19

http://www.niemanlab.org/2013/09/reuters-nixes-next-failed-redesigns-and-the-challenge-of-expanding-a-digital-audience/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2013/09/19/why-reuters-nixed-next-anatomy-of-a-very-expensive-misfire/

http://www.themediabriefing.com/article/quartz-to-reach-profitability-by-2015

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/09/19/apple-jony-ive-craig-federighi/2834575/

http://shawnblanc.net/2010/08/simplenote/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonplace_book

http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/18/4741908/simplenote-reborn-first-great-notes-app-ios-android-mac-web

http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/23/2959214/dnp-verge-at-work-nv



h2. Sep 18

https://editorially.com

http://mistersugar.com/

http://wiredcraft.com/posts/2013/09/18/github-for-everything.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6404847

http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2013/tomato-can-blues/

http://www.aeonmagazine.com 

http://www.wired.com/business/2013/09/dropbox-2/ 

http://pandodaily.com/2013/09/16/the-best-magazine-on-the-internet/

http://modernfarmer.com/2013/07/straw-bale-gardening/ http://strawbalegardens.com/ 


h2. Sep 17

http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/17/paper-li/

http://pandodaily.com/2013/09/17/former-facebook-editor-launches-beacon-a-platform-that-pays-journalists/

http://blog.beaconreader.com/post/61376491652/the-reader-writer-relationship


h2. Sep 16 and earlier

"Microsoft Throws its Weight Behind Ghost":https://medium.com/tech-talk/e103e33a0fa8
Hacker News "thread":https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6390437

Responsive design needs more than a good squeeze - 
The browser just isn’t enough https://medium.com/design-ux/953d840c3a17 

Parsing webmentions
http://adactio.com/journal/6495/

http://digiday.com/publishers/what-does-mobile-first-mean-to-publishers/

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/16/business/media/politico-plans-for-new-york-are-drawing-some-doubt.html 

http://jerilanders.com/working_on_book_three4.htm

http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/how-joota-aims-to-build-communities-around-content/s2/a554059/

http://www.objc.io/issue-4/SQLite-instead-of-core-data.html

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/14/alabama-jihadi-killed-somalia

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/15/domenico-quirico-my-hostage-ordeal

http://cir.ca/news/npr-staff-reductions

http://cir.ca/news/trader-joes-obamacare


http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/09/freedom-hosting-fbi/all/1


http://m.techcrunch.com/2013/09/14/twitter-co-founder-evan-williams-lays-out-his-vision-for-medium/


http://q.usatoday.com/2013/09/13/275798/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/12/google_mariadb_mysql_migration/


h2. Sep 12

http://cir.ca/news/nusra-front-in-syria

http://cir.ca/news/explainer-syrian-rebels

https://eloquentjavascript.net/2nd_edition/
https://eloquentjavascript.net/2nd_edition/

http://responsive-nav.com/

http://allthingsd.com/20120611/a-sports-aggregator-finds-a-home-gannett-buys-quickish/

http://www.quickish.com/



h2. Sep 11

http://williamcotton.com/how-to-publish-open-source-code
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6368602

http://chrome.blogspot.com/2013/09/a-fresh-mix-of-intel-based-chromebooks.html

http://speckyboy.com/2013/09/11/responsive-design-is-not-about-screen-sizes-any-more/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6366223



h2. Sep 10

http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/10/apples-iphone-5c-will-run-549-and-649-off-contract/

http://allthingsd.com/20130910/ios-7-ships-september-18/


h2. Sep 9

https://brennannovak.com

http://waterpigs.co.uk/articles/
http://waterpigs.co.uk/
http://drawnfromnature.co.uk/

http://indiewebcamp.com/self-dogfooding
http://indiewebcamp.com/OStatus
http://indiewebcamp.com/activitystreams
http://indiewebcamp.com/building-blocks
http://indiewebcamp.com/friendly
http://indiewebcamp.com/IRC


http://tantek.com/log/2007/02.html#d19t1813

http://indiewebcamp.com/antipatterns#mass_adoption



h2. Sep 7

http://ia.net/blog/logo-bullshit-co-inc/

http://reaganray.com/ - study css and responsive design

http://travisswicegood.com/2013/06/03/past-present-and-future-of-armstrong/
http://armstrongcms.org/

http://www.wireshark.org/ jquery css bootstrap menu

http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/how-to-build-a-three-line-drop-down-menu-for-a-responsive-website-in-jquery


h2. Sep 6

http://theconversation.com/spike-the-gloom-journalism-has-a-bright-future-17907

http://www.niemanlab.org/2013/09/the-newsonomics-of-big-sports-money-and-news/



h2. Sep 4

http://mailinator.blogspot.com/2012/08/i-further-predict-death-of-your-web.html


h2. Sep 2

http://www.flavourfirst.org/poilane/


h2. Sep 1

How Medium can be made more accessible
https://medium.com/medium-ideas/a2c5e6f6cff3

https://medium.com/the-web-we-make/b7a98098b342
What Medium Is

The Disconnection Paradox of Existing Social Media Platforms
https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/6982cb938251

Dear Thursday (My Day in Haiku) https://medium.com/tech-talk/77b7a46f93a7 

The guidelines for making sites accessible to people with Cognitive Impairments deserve much more attention.
https://medium.com/tech-talk/81e26780cda6

An experiment into using only web apps for web development https://medium.com/tech-talk/b99489eefc64 

http://www.stavros.io/posts/brilliant-or-insane-code/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6309853

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6306962

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/09/01/lg-announces-the-g-pad-an-8-3-inch-android-jelly-bean-powered-ipad-rival-going-worldwide-q4-2013/

h2. Aug 30

http://justinjackson.ca/hiring-developers/

http://justinjackson.ca/jfdi.html

http://justinjackson.ca/self-publishing-hangout/

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/31/business/media/for-news-from-syrian-battleground-a-reliance-on-social-media.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13930435

[[GitHub system for writers]]

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/02/github/all/1

h2. Aug 29

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2013/08/brand-messy-editorial-adventures-startupland/68636/

http://scripting.com/2013/08/29/encryptionInFargo114
http://crypto.stanford.edu/sjcl/


h2. Aug 28

http://ma.tt/2009/05/how-p2-changed-automattic/

http://p2theme.com/

http://blog.sqwiggle.com/post/56163161188/the-future-is-remote

http://blog.sqwiggle.com/post/53804205613/what-its-like-to-work-every-day-without-an-office

http://blog.tommoor.com/post/52891436890/how-to-build-company-transparency-and-reduce-email

http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/introducing-prologue/

https://www.sqwiggle.com/
http://blog.tommoor.com/

http://blog.instapaper.com/post/59614190398
 
http://www.j-lab.org/_uploads/publications/news_chops_final.pdf

http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2013/07/public-media-join-nonprofit-startups-collaborate-fill-local-news-gap


h2. Aug 27

http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/07/ghost-will-take-your-boring-blog-to-the-next-astral-plane/

http://mashable.com/2013/05/25/ghost-kickstarter-blogging/

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2013/05/01/check-out-the-new-ghost-blogging-platform-kickstarter-funded-in-under-12-hours/

http://agbeat.com/social-media/ghost-blogging-platform-that-could-be-the-next-wordpress/

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/10/ghost

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andyellwood/2013/04/30/innovation-in-creation/

* http://intentionjs.com/
* http://firstround.com/article/What-to-Do-When-Youre-the-Only-Designer-Theyve-Got
* http://www.interpretermag.com/author/james-miller/
* http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2013/08/we-need-a-digital-first-curriculum-to-teach-modern-journalism


h2. Aug 26

* http://www.trsst.com/paper/
* http://www.netnewscheck.com/article/28382/for-media-cos-cms-world-gets-complex
* http://johnkrolldigital.com/2013/08/does-journalism-make-a-difference-in-a-community/
* http://www.fastcolabs.com/3016147/this-open-source-twitter-replacement-is-absolutely-brilliant
** https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6280727
* http://thecontinentalsuper.wordpress.com/2013/08/24/how-to-remember-every-day-of-your-life/
* http://www.fastcolabs.com/3016147/this-open-source-twitter-replacement-is-absolutely-brilliant
* http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/z2010-09-13-GroomPleStudentControl
* http://pressthink.org/2013/08/to-make-journalism-harder-slower-less-secure/
* http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/26/pew-30-of-u-s-adults-dont-have-broadband-10-use-smartphones-as-sole-internet-access-20-have-zilch/
* http://scripting.com/2013/08/26/studentsCanRunTheirOwnServers
* http://noodlejs.com/
* https://moot.it/blog/technology/real-timey-wimey-stuff.html
** https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6276356
* http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/08/meet-matt-kruse-the-man-making-facebook-better/
* http://www.crockford.com/



h2. Aug 24

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6268248

* http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-08/23/jacob-marsh-modmypi

* https://medium.com/design-startups/9411fb583205

h2. Aug 23, 2013

* http://www.laweekly.com/2013-08-22/news/michael-hastings-crash/
* https://37signals.com/svn/posts/3589-why-were-doing-things-that-dont-scale 
* http://paulgraham.com/ds.html

h2. Aug 22, 2013

* http://2013.xoxofest.com/
* https://plus.google.com/communities/118307175501987556985
* http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/06/regular-expressions-now-you-have-two-problems.html
* http://www.metafilter.com/tags/Pyra
* http://www.metafilter.com/7018/Trellix-buys-Blogger
* http://www.bricklin.com/log/blogger.htm
* http://www.theobvious.com/archive/2000/05/01.html
* http://www.metafilter.com/6022/Blogger



h2. Aug 21, 2013

* http://coreos.com
* http://ellieharold.com/works
* http://www.inspirationalcona.org/CarolYager2013.html
* http://www.inspirationalcona.org/EllieHarold2013.html
* http://cir.ca/story/poison-gas-suspected-in-damascus-attack
* http://www.niemanlab.org/2013/08/why-the-washington-post-uses-wordpress-and-empathetic-design/
* http://wordpress.tv/2013/07/29/yuri-victor-why-the-washington-post-uses-wordpress/
* http://yurivictor.com/2013/01/09/why-the-washington-post-uses-wordpress/
* http://www.niemanlab.org/2013/08/the-newsonomics-of-patchs-unquilting-2/
* http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2007/07/co-founder-potts-shares-lessons-learned-from-backfence-bust197
* http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/johnonolan/ghost-just-a-blogging-platform



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