Aaron Parecki

#web

• Who Killed the Desktop Application? (blog.codinghorror.com)

  All the innovation in user interface seems to be taking place on the web, and desktop applications just aren't keeping up.

  Tue, Feb 10, 2015 7:54am -08:00 #web #design #ui
• The “Web Application” Myth (medium.com)

  Sun, Feb 8, 2015 6:41pm -08:00 #javascript #webdev #web #internet #indieweb #apps
• You’re Missing the Point of Server-Side Rendered JavaScript Apps : Tom Dale (tomdale.net)

  Fri, Feb 6, 2015 2:31pm -08:00 #javascript #web
• 

  Today in Internationalization is Hard, "The curious case of the disappearing Polish Ś" https://medium.com/medium-eng/the-curious-case-of-disappearing-polish-s-fa398313d4df

  Portland, Oregon, USA

  2 likes

  Mon, Feb 2, 2015 5:47pm -08:00 #web #i18n #language
• Wow, that's some bad usability there. Talk about chasing the shiny over form *an... | Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com)

  Javascript pages are the 'Flash site' of the 2010s and I can't wait until it's similarly consigned to its rightful place in the dustbin of history.

  Mon, Feb 2, 2015 11:40am -08:00 #web #indieweb #javascript
• Sitemeer http://www.sitemeer.com

  http://aaronparecki.com/articles/2015/01/22/1/why-not-json
  
  #XML and #JSON are great formats but the article makes a valid point. There'll be a next hype
  #webdev #web @aaronpk

  Sat, Jan 31, 2015 2:25am +01:00 (liked on Fri, Jan 30, 2015 7:53pm -08:00) #XML #JSON #webdev #web
• Talking to DC | Adam Bosworth's Weblog (adambosworth.net)

  Standards work best when they are focused. Don’t build an 18 wheeler to drive a city block. Standards often fail because committees with very different complex goals come together without actual working implementations to sanity check both the complexity (see point 1 above) and the intelligibility (see point 2 above).

  Fri, Jan 30, 2015 2:52pm -08:00 #standards #web
• jquery.adaptive-backgrounds.js • A jQuery plugin for extracting dominant colors from images and applying it to its parent (briangonzalez.github.io)

  A jQuery plugin for extracting dominant colors from images and applying it to its parent.

  Sun, Jan 25, 2015 8:48pm -08:00 #jquery #web #design #resources
• CSS Modal - Modals built out of pure CSS (drublic.github.io)

  Fri, Jan 23, 2015 8:53am -08:00 #css #resources #web #ui

• So you implemented an OAuth 2.0 API...

  While OAuth 2.0 is a good framework for building an API, the spec itself leaves many things un-specified, and it's up to the implementer to make a decision based on their own security requirements. As such, most OAuth 2.0 implementations are not interoperable, which is often cited as a failure of OAuth 2.0. On the other hand, the current state of OAuth 2.0 implementations is that they are often similar enough that developers don't need to learn too many new concepts when dealing with them.

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  19 likes 6 reposts 3 replies 5 mentions

  Thu, Jan 15, 2015 12:15pm -08:00 #oauth #oauth2 #standards #web #authentication #checklist
• UI design – A history of web design trends (www.butterfly.com.au)

  Thu, Jan 8, 2015 2:38pm -08:00 #web #ui #design #trends
• Flakes • An Admin UI & Template Framework (getflakes.com)

  Flakes is a combination of CSS Libraries, JavaScript Libraries and Design files that serve as a foundation. Flakes gives priority to function and usability over glitz, it takes a no-nonsense approach to user interface design.

  Thu, Dec 4, 2014 9:34am -08:00 #css #web #design #resources
• Scaling PHP apps via PHP-FPM clustering | Jamie Alquiza (grey-boundary.io)

  Thu, Nov 13, 2014 6:23pm -08:00 #fpm #php #scaling #web
• Using server-sent events (developer.mozilla.org)

  Wed, Nov 12, 2014 1:32pm -08:00 #web #sse
• Rolling Your Own CDN – Build A 3 Continent CDN For $25 In 1 Hour (www.scalescale.com)

  Sun, Jul 27, 2014 5:00pm -07:00 #DNS #ops #web
• This URL shortener situation is officially out of control (www.hanselman.com)

  Mon, Jun 9, 2014 1:24pm -07:00 #url #web

• The Importance of URLs

  No, Chirpify did not acquire Urban Airship. Goes to show just how important the browser's address bar is.

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  8 likes 10 reposts 1 bookmark 2 replies 3 mentions

  Fri, Jun 6, 2014 7:00pm -07:00 #web #shrturl #buy #hoax #chirpify #urbanairship #pdx #startups
• 7 things I wish every search box did (insideintercom.io)

  Mon, Apr 7, 2014 9:56am -07:00 #search #UI #web
• A Second Here, A Second There… (devblog.songkick.com)

  Wed, Jan 8, 2014 10:14am -08:00 #curl #http #ruby #sinatra #unicorn #web
• blacktie.co (www.blacktie.co)

  Free handsome Bootstrap themes for everyone. Because "free" doesn't always mean crappy.

  Thu, Jan 2, 2014 12:47pm -08:00 #bootstrap #css #resources #theme #web