Lots of great reads this week, enjoy!
–kale
#Featured
Google Reader shutting down //googleblog comments→
Poll: Best RSS reader
State of RSS Readers //superfeedr comments→
We're Building A Reader //digg comments→
#Favorites
Why I'm switching (back) to Firefox //campaul comments→
Automatic Launches //automatic comments→
How We Went from 30 Servers to 2: Go //iron comments→
Procrastination is Not Laziness //thoughtcatalog comments→
Apartments So Small They Can Only Be Photographed From Above //theatlanticcities comments→
The hypocrisy in Silicon Valley's big talk on innovation //sfgate comments→
Walk Through The First Minutes of a Linux Box Troubleshooting //devo comments→
Bulletproof demos using Chrome's playback mode //hubspot comments→
Show HN: Word Tree in D3.js //jasondavies comments→
Developing a responsive, Retina-friendly site (Part 2) //paulstamatiou comments→
#Ask HN
Ask HN: How did you find your early adopters?
Ask HN: How do blind people code and work with terminals?
#Show HN
Save 95% memory in Google Chrome //one-tab comments→
My side project about side projects //sideshowhq comments→
Incorporate your startup online with YC's forms (built by two lawyers) //clerky comments→
Weekend project, fun spin on dating. Only friends edit your profile //cupidwithfriends comments→
Write Better with Draft //draftin comments→
Real-time Wiki //document comments→
Task.li turns emails into shared task lists for you //task comments→
#Classics
Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas //paulgraham comments→
New IDE: code bubbles //brown comments→
More in this week's Wayback Letter...
#Code
Huginn, an Open Source IFTTT / Yahoo Pipes //github comments→
Clojure: All grown up //wit comments→
Announcing Kiln Harmony: the Future of DVCS //fogcreek comments→
Sails.js: Realtime MVC framework for node.js //github comments→
Lua: Good, bad, and ugly parts //kulchenko comments→
Marc-André's two day Programming Master Class starts March 25th. He covers everything you need to know about how a programming language works, from your code to the machine. It will change the way you view programming forever and will make you a better programmer in the process.
#Design
Why I created Comic Sans //connare comments→
Bootstrap 3 preview //getbootstrap comments→
14 lousy web design trends that are making a comeback due to HTML5 //econsultancy comments→
Introducing A New Article Design //nytimes comments→
Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick People //darkpatterns comments→
Some amazing CSS3 background patterns from Lea Verou and others //verou comments→
The Era of Symbol Fonts //alistapart comments→
#Books
Releasing my book "Hacking the Xbox" as a free PDF in honor of Aaron Swartz //nostarch comments→
Show HN: Today I launched a comprehensive and free guide to drop shipping //shopify comments→
Learning Python while processing raw text: The NLTK book //nltk comments→
The Joy of Clojure (2nd Edition) //manning comments→
#Watch
Dad hacks Donkey Kong for his daughter; Pauline now saves Mario //arstechnica comments→
This is What Happens When You Run Water Through a 24hz Sine Wave //thisiscolossal comments→
SpaceX’s Autonomous ‘Grasshopper’ Rocket Makes Milestone Flight //wired comments→
#Longreads
The Professor, the Bikini Model and the Suitcase Full of Trouble //nytimes comments→
Best short story about the future I've ever read //skyhunter comments→
#Fun
Official Hacker News T-Shirt //teespring comments→
Massively multiplayer city-building game in HTML5 //tholman comments→
#Prompt
Did you finish a great book recently? Have a book to recommend? Let me know and I'll put together another book list, plus one randomly selected person will get the new Practical Programming ebook from Pragamtic Programmers.
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