March 2015
26 links saved this month.
blog.codinghorror.com
Post holding up the playful Beagle Bros software of the Apple II era as a model for interactive, animated textbooks on the web.
atelier.net
Reading of a GfK survey of 25,000 mobile users on what shoppers do with their phones in physical stores, and how French habits diverge from the worldwide pattern.
dantehranian.wordpress.com
Walkthrough of running a private Docker image registry behind an Nginx reverse proxy so that pull and push traffic can be logged and measured.
spark.io
Device connectivity, fleet management and data pipelines for connected hardware, from edge to cloud.
youtube.com
Recorded meetup talk demonstrating the Ionic framework for building hybrid mobile apps, given to the Gainesville Front-end Developers Meetup.
ionicframework.com
Open source mobile SDK for building cross-platform apps from a single web codebase, with platform-themed UI components and native device access.
presse-citron.net
Présentation d’Innov&Connect, l’accélérateur lancé par BNP Paribas pour faire collaborer onze start-ups avec onze entreprises de taille intermédiaire pendant six mois.
chase-seibert.github.io
Walkthrough of tracking runaway memory use in long-running Python and Celery workers with objgraph, Heapy and gdb-heap, plus process-recycling workarounds.
apievangelist.com
Post on how API-driven integration platforms put ETL-style data movement within reach of non-technical users, away from heavyweight enterprise tooling.
paulgraham.com
Essay taking apart sixteen common reasons people give for not founding a company, backed by Y Combinator's early success-rate data.
paulgraham.com
The five qualities Y Combinator looks for in founders: determination, flexibility, imagination, naughtiness, and friendship between cofounders.
lucumr.pocoo.org
Armin Ronacher announces that he is joining Sentry as a partner, and reflects on what it takes to turn an open source project into a company.
paulgraham.com
Essay arguing that companies working in less mainstream languages such as Python attract better programmers, since only enthusiasts learn them by choice.
paulgraham.com
Seven lessons founders resist learning, among them releasing early, shipping constantly, and fearing other startups rather than established companies.
paulgraham.com
Eighteen common ways startups fail, from founding alone to mismanaging investors, all of which reduce to not making something users want.
atelier.net
Survey of desert, floating and skyscraper city concepts, asking whether such designs are experiments in style or buildable answers to urbanisation and environmental limits.
paulgraham.com
Thirteen condensed rules for running a startup, from picking good cofounders to making a few users very happy rather than many users mildly so.
