A detailed description of Backblaze‘s setup, getting a lot of storage to fit in a limited budget.
This is quite old news (1 September), but I didn’t read it the first time around, and was reminded of it today via a newsletter from them.
New non-profit from American Association for the Advancement of Science, dedicated to help US Federal Government make use of the expertise of its citizens.
A collection of HTML elements and CSS styling, to test a font’s usefulness on the web. Made by Tim Brown of Nice Web Type fame.
Marvellous. An entire site dedicated to shoelaces.
(Via Put This On.)
Jason Santa Maria in A List Apart on how to pair web fonts in the new world of @font-face.
Jeremy Keith has a post on a new visual cue he has developed for Huffduffer, to signal a small change. The change is akin to the visual feedback one gets in Super Mario when scoring points, and I must say, it’s quite well-executed.
‘A web series about dressing like a grownup’.
Jesse Thorn and Adam Lisagor have made this wonderful blog and small-scale tv series about how to properly dress yourself. The first episode (published 2 November) is about denim, and is very well-done. The blog is well-written, and whilst I don’t agree with all the advice (a tweed vest? No thanks), most of the advice is pretty sound.
(Also, they’re looking for funding to continue the series. Yes, I am considering turning this into a Kickstarter promotion blog.)
Why would you use a screwdriver?
Coudal Partners are celebrating their 10-year anniversary, and are having a contest: send an email. From 1999.
I would’ve liked to contest, but I find it would be rather anachronistic: in 1999, I was 10 years old, and at this point in time I had been taught English in school for some two months.
I learned some years ago that symbolics.com was the first ever domain name – I never understood why that name was chosen, though.
The first domain of a company I’d heard of was xerox.com. (And while all this internet, domain stuff is still considered very new, I find it worth noting that the last one from that list was registered one and a half year before I was born.)
This is Simply Jonathan, a blog written by Jonathan Holst. It's mostly about technical topics (and mainly the Web at that), but an occasional post on clothing, sports, and general personal life topics can be found.
Jonathan Holst is a programmer, language enthusiast, sports fan, and appreciator of good design, living in Copenhagen, Denmark, Europe. He is also someone pretentious enough to call himself the 'author' of a blog. And talk about himself in the third person.