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The American civil war then and now – interactive | Art and design | The Guardian

Fascinating look at the Civil War featuring before and 150 years later photos. The women who dug the graves, the kids who watched the largest battle in US…

Linux file system hierarchy v2.0 – blackMORE Ops

Given my affinity for using my Mac and my web servers via their command lines, I love this reference: Linux File System Hierarchy v2.0. Check it out and…

WP Time Capsule

WP Time Capsule provides incremental backups of your WordPress site. It only backs up files and db changes. This type of backup strategy provides features like going back…

Six Colors: Three culprits that were eating up my Mac’s disk space

I was able to find some extra disk space on my Mac by cleaning up two out of three of Three culprits that were eating up my Mac’s disk…

Sitecake – a flat-file CMS

Sitecake is a flat-file CMS for building HTML websites. I’ve tried out their demo, and it may be just the solution I’m looking for with regards to a…

Rocket.Chat

Rocket.chat is an open source chat solution built with Meteor.

jlevy/the-art-of-command-line

This is a great reference for learning how to use the command line. Fluency on the command line is a skill often neglected or considered arcane, but it…

CamanJS – Javascript Image Manipulation

CamanJS is a nice little library for manipulating your images with Javascript: CamanJS is (ca)nvas (man)ipulation in Javascript. It’s a combination of a simple-to-use interface with advanced and…

Imagining MessageKit: Apple’s path to turning iMessage into a platform

I would love to see this happen (be sure to click through to read the full article): What if instead of installing an app, we might instead allow…

Links of Interest – WordPress Development

Today’s Links of Interest are all about WordPress development: So You Want To Use WordPress To Make An App? At WordCamp Miami, which I attended recently, one of…

Tiny Content Framework

Crafting content around your brand/message/event/etc can be tough. This Tiny Content Framework is a set of tools for helping you write the words that tell your story. This…

Toyota #MásQueUnAuto – Name Your Car

Do you name your cars? My second car was a late eighties, navy blue Toyota Camry. It was the “The Blue Streak”. My next car was a mid-nineties silver Camry,…

The Lomography New Petzval 58 Bokeh Control Art Lens by Lomography — Kickstarter

“Bokeh like a boss,” says it all. Lovely “bokeh control” lens from the folks at Lomography. Check out their Kickstarter.  

ASCII Generator

You know you wanna’ generate some fly ASCII text art with this: ASCII Generator Generate a ASCII graphic from a word or text. More than 130 fonts. Source:…

#devnotes – site concept, logo, and website in one week

I have a couple of clients who primarily know me as a “coder”. I’m the guy who keeps their website running and codes new functionality for their existing…

StackShare

StackShare is a site for learning about the technologies that power all your favorite sites on the web. For example, via StackShare, I learned that the following comprises…

Flock — Free chat for Teams and Businesses

Flock is a polished looking, free chat solution for Teams and Businesses. The primary reason why I’m interested in them is because I just found out that Flock…

Adding HTML id attributes to Visual Composer rows in the X Theme

I’ve been providing coding assistance for the web team over at CodeTN. For their initial launch, they’ve built out a one page scrolling website which also has a…

Meteor Security Checklist – Meteor Club

Meteor Club has published a nice MeteorJS Security Checklist.