I read a lot of longer-form content on my computer, like the articles in…

I read a lot of longer-form content on my computer, like the articles in the Atlantic, so I’m always on the look out for ways to make this reading experience easier. My current weapon of choice is readability, which is a valiant attempt to strip out the dross around the content and to set the content in a way more comfortable to read.

I’m still stuck with a heavy, bulky device though. So we come to the tablet which all sources indicate will be unveiled later today by Apple. The tablets I’ve used in the past have tried hard to replace desktop computers, leading to heavy, bulky devices which are no better than a laptop for reading and worse for everything else. So I hope the tablet:

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My web development essentials

After working creating websites full time at Netsight for a few months, I’ve started to build up a toolkit of apps and sites which I find myself repeatedly using.

Apps & Tools

The raw tools through which my blood, sweat and tears flow to create websites. The connection between my mind and the text your currently see. These boys are the big guns.

Vim

There’s something about vim which sets it aside from other editors. It’s the way vim feels like it was designed to allow you to bash out text as fast as damn well possible. No distractions. No toolbars. No pussy-footing around between you and your characters.

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Link: The concept is the execution

The Concept is the Execution

I think this is a problem that’s easy to hit from the largest grandiose plans to the smallest website project. The devil is in the details.

There are a number of trigger phrases that people use to try to prevent you focusing on the detail of a project and back to nice, sweeping, high-level thinking, and “that’s executional” is one of them. I think it is supposed to mean that the particular detail you’re focusing on is not central to the service under discussion and is something that can be worked out at a later date. […]

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Weekend mode for Twitter Clients

Weekend mode for Twitter Clients

I tend to agree with Shawn Blanc’s comment that this mode would be more of a during-the-work-day than during the weekend mode for me.

	What I'd love to have is a "weekend mode" in my client. (Or it could even be a separate client.) The weekend mode would show me only mentions, direct messages, and items with links. However, the items-with-links would not include yfrog and similar links: if it’s just a picture of someone's sushi or their wacky goldfish, I can skip it.

Link: A piece with a lot of screenshots about the close tab behaviour in Google Chrome

A piece with a lot of screenshots about the close tab behaviour in Google Chrome

To out-polish Apple, you have to get up pretty early. That such a high level of attention is paid to a detail like browser tabs is why Google’s applications are so invisible. Apart from Google Wave, of course, whose UI is pretty much a steamroller running you over in the getting-out-of-the-way stakes.

Tabs, tabs, tabs. The specialist subject of UI experts everywhere. Should tabs just rearrange horizontally or also detach? How much vertical scroll buffer should a tab have before it detaches? Under what circumstances should it detach? What about reattaching?

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