paulrouget: Tips for smooth scrolling web pages: http://t.co/W2EDlLoO by @cwiiis

newsycombinator: What it's Really Like Working with Steve Jobs http://t.co/iseH7Fgl

Did you know that a task that’s interrupted takes 50% longer and has 50% more mistakes than an uninterrupted one? It takes a while for our brains to get into a focused state where we’re able to concentrate fully on a task without feeling distracted. Once we’re in that state, we can enjoy a very…

During the early development of Safari, I didn’t just worry about leaking our secret project through Apple’s IP address or our browser’s user agent string. It also concerned me that curious gawkers on the outside would notice who I was hiring at Apple. Other than a bit part in a documentary about…

For much of the time we spent developing Safari — long before it was called by that name — it pretended to be Microsoft Internet Explorer. Specifically, Internet Explorer for Mac, which Apple had provided with the OS since 1998. Less than six months before Safari debuted, it started pretending to be…

Ten years ago this month, my secret Web browser team at Apple became the “Safari” team — less than 30 days before we debuted the product on January 7, 2003. To this day, I don’t know who suggested the name “Safari.” I wasn’t in the room when the heavens split asunder and angels sounded forth as a…

Hi, it's Matt Seeley, engineer on the device UI team at Netflix. My team uses WebKit, JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3 to build user interfaces for the PlayStation 3, Wii, Blu-ray players, Internet-connected TVs, phones and tablets. Recently I spoke at the HTML5 Dev Conf about WebKit-based UI development…

kangax: So much awesome... RT @divya: I wrote about the talk I gave @jscamp_asia as I had no slides. http://t.co/bCQiC9WH

1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world" into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not impressed due to the lack of tail call recursion, concurrency, or proper capitalization. 1842 - Ada Lovelace writes the first program. She is hampered in her…

davidyeiser: "Prototype iPhone apps with simple HTML, CSS and JS components" – http://t.co/WmAjN8OX *Very* nice. And fantastic marketing/demo site too.

addyosmani: [New Post] Writing Fast, Memory-Efficient JavaScript http://t.co/g9VTVhbb #js #v8 #devtools

Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, two of the most important software engineers of the internet age — and two of the most underappreciated. Photos: Ariel Zambelich/Wired The truth about Jeff Dean appeared on April Fool’s Day 2007. Somewhere inside Google, a private website served up a list of facts…

Google employee benefits last into the afterlife It’s no surprise that the employee benefits of Google are among the best in the land—free haircuts, gourmet food, on-site doctors and high-tech “cleansing” toilets are among the most talked-about—but in a rare interview with Chief People Officer Lazlo…

In 1970, a Zambia-based nun named Sister Mary Jucunda wrote to Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger, then-associate director of science at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, in response to his ongoing research into a piloted mission to Mars. Specifically, she asked how he could suggest spending billions of…

FibreTigre: Google dispose d'un "Musée numérique" où l'on peut lire les 1ères mentions historiques de Microsoft, du SIDA ou du Fax. http://t.co/pcQLYdBx

dsmcl: How #google pulled off the Glass demo: http://t.co/aVC12EGa

mauriz: [video] Lightroom 4: Create Stunning Images http://t.co/ryXBBeZa

LeaVerou: If you don’t code, but work with people who do, you MUST read this excellent article by @slicknet http://t.co/xd3850dy

24 hours of news photos: 24 May 2012 Readers' photos on the theme Canada Landmark election 24 hours of news photos: 23 May Images from the streets of Cairo as polls open Press day at the Chelsea Flower Show Eastern Asia to the western US states 24 hours of news photos 22 May 2012 Bee Gees' singer…

spacefuture: The Onion's brilliant July 21, 1969 article on the first moon landing #space http://t.co/yoHCkiv2

Episode I is a failure on every pos­si­ble level. The acting, writing, di­rect­ing, and special effects are all atro­cious, and the movie is just plain boring. Luckily, George Lucas has done every­one a favor by making the content of Episode I com­pletely ir­rel­e­vant to the rest of the series.…

Alexander Adell and Bertram Lupov were two of the faithful attendants of Multivac. As well as any human beings could, they knew what lay behind the cold, clicking, flashing face -- miles and miles of face -- of that giant computer. They had at least a vague notion of the general plan of relays and…

You just have to travel very, very fast. Much faster even than the speed required to avoid being sucked into a black hole. This is due to another strange fact about the universe. There's a cosmic speed limit, 186,000 miles per second, also known as the speed of light. Nothing can exceed that speed.…

By Patrick Desjardins I sat in front of my laptop at work, watching the videos from the previous night. While logically I knew this was Star Wars Galaxies, I recognized nothing on the screen. It was like watching a completely different game. In that video, I saw the end to what could have been an…

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Doing cache invalidation by hand is an incredibly frustrating and error-prone process. You’re very likely to forget a spot and let stale data get served. That’s enough to turn most people off russian-doll caching structures, like the one we’re using for Basecamp Next. Thankfully there’s a better…

When we started working on Basecamp Next last year, we had much internal debate about whether we should evolve the existing code base or rewrite it. I’ll dive more into that debate further in a later post, but one of the key arguments for a rewrite was that we wanted a dramatic leap forward in speed…

Monday, February 13, 2012 at 9:15AM With over 15 billion page views a month Tumblr has become an insanely popular blogging platform. Users may like Tumblr for its simplicity, its beauty, its strong focus on user experience, or its friendly and engaged community, but like it they do.Growing at over…

Javascript is prototype based language, which means every object can be a prototype for another object. This process is called forming of prototype chain. The prototype chain is a finite linked list of objects, from which the particular object inherits properties and methods. Behind the scene the…

A common pattern to speed-up the performance of your JavaScript code is to leverage the optimized property access found in modern JavaScript engines. In fact, fast property access is a key in design elements of V8. It is also achieved in JavaScriptCore, the default engine behind WebKit, via…

Two years ago this month, Apple Computer released a small, sleek-looking device it called the iPod. A digital music player, it weighed just 6.5 ounces and held about 1,000 songs. There were small MP3 players around at the time, and there were players that could hold a lot of music. But if the…

A lightning talk by Gary Bernhardt from CodeMash 2012 The sarcasm in this talk does not represent anyone's actual opinion. For a more serious take on software, try Destroy All Software Screencasts: 10 to 15 minutes weekly, dense with information on advanced topics like Unix, TDD, OO Design, Vim,…

MongoDB, as some of you may know, has a process-wide write lock. This has caused some degree of ridicule from database purists when they discover such a primitive locking model. Now per-database and per-collection locking is on the roadmap for MongoDB, but it's not here yet. What was announced in…

In the summer of 2006, I was lucky enough to be an intern at Google. At the time, Google had an internal tool called gsearch that acted as if it ran grep over all the files in the Google source tree and printed the results. Of course, that implementation would be fairly slow, so what gsearch…

Imgur is used to share photos with social networks and online communities, and has the funniest pictures from all over the Internet. ...

I decided to write a little article to discourage an unfortunately common pattern in Node.JS modules (and browser JavaScript, to a lesser extent) that can boil down to these two examples: and In both cases, passing a string instead of an error results in reduced interoperability between modules. It…

When the team was formed earlier in the year, our first job was to expand our stack with MongoDB. However, we felt it would be a disservice to you, our customers, if we added a NoSQL datastore into the stack without first updating the relational databases that we support. So, we decided to pause…

Monday, December 19, 2011 at 9:05AM Jeremy Cole, a DBA Team Lead/Database Architect at Twitter, gave a really good talk at the O'Reilly MySQL conference: Big and Small Data at @Twitter, where the topic was thinking of Twitter from the data perspective. One of the interesting stories he told was of…

“If you really want to … truly ancient history, you have to go back to delta decks on punch cards.” (Jim Rootham) In a world where biographies of cod are not just accepted, but rightly popular, it wouldn’t seem entirely crazy to write a history book on how computer programmers store the vital…

simonw: Fascinating post on Instagram's architecture - massive scale Django + PostgreSQL + Redis + Gearman all on EC2 http://t.co/Sq20O4HQ