Bookmarks for 20140912

Some bookmarks as I haven't done this for ages and I need to test some automation.

My friend @PullMyDaisy 's new KickStarter, "Glass Senses"
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1337820983/glass-senses

Great Sci-Fi short story by Tobias Buckell - "System Reset"
http://io9.com/read-this-intense-pre-apocalyptic-hacker-story-by-tobi-1542763261

The art of Nick Gentry, which I am a particular fan of, especially the more abstract floppy disk pieces
http://www.nickgentry.com

A piece I found on using database tables as queues which is just useful to read
http://rusanu.com/2010/03/26/using-tables-as-queues/

That Manchester Evening News donation drive for Manchester Dogs Home just hit £857,000. Stunning.

Bookmarks for 20140313

Thursday is an exciting day. I'll tell you all why soon. Work is busy, things are progressing and I saw a cracking gig last night - Hollie McNish supported by Sabrina Mahfouz - awesome awesome awesome spoken-word poetry at Bush Hall. After the gig I popped in for a quick beer at my neighbouring bar and ended up on a call to technical support for half an hour to try and fix their card machine, which didn't get fixed but at least I got a free beer out of it. I then woke up with a headache this morning and I'm blaming the card machine.

Good article on thinking about appropriate data structures in Redis.

https://matt.sh/thinking-in-redis-part-one

StreamTools by the New York Times R&D Lab.
https://source.opennews.org/en-US/articles/introducing-streamtools/

Steve Jackson's Sorcery! A Fighting Fantasy RPG brought to Android and iOS. However, I'm biased so here's just the Android link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.inkle.sorcery1

I've been on a massive reading binge recently, here's a couple of highlights:

Red Phone Box: A Darkly Magical Story Cycle, by Salomé Jones, Warren Ellis, et al. This was quite a ride through London... Every London.

Gun Machine, by Warren Ellis. This is the detective novel I've been waiting for. Also some of my favourite writing I've come across for a while. An unsettling case that spreads across 20 years and all of Manhattan.

Bookmarks for 20140226

The careful arrangement of strings, bells, lenses and mirrors I employ to wake me at the appointed time definitely did not work this morning. However, it's a sunny day so here's some bookmarks.

Data modelling with MongoDB (general topic as I've been busy with re-writing bits of Xizi just recently):

http://mongolab.org/topic/?data

Warren Ellis has a new, epic looking graphic novel out (shortly), TREES:

http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=15103

Some Kickstarters of note that I've backed recently:

TimeWatch - Gumshoe and Time Travel RPG thingummy that did ridiculously well:

"You've got a time machine, high-powered weapons and a whole lot of history to save. Welcome to TimeWatch!"

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kevinkulp/timewatch-gumshoe-investigative-time-travel-rpg

Project: Dark - A stealth-based tabletop RPG that sounds amazing and that also smashed its funding goal:

"Play fantastic thieves in a fantastical city in this new stealth-adventure tabletop roleplaying game."

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wordstudio/project-dark

Hello Ruby - A delightful, almost perfect children's book that teaches kids the basics of programming. I cannot recommend this highly enough.

"Hello Ruby is a children’s book that teaches programming fundamentals through stories and kid-friendly activities."

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lindaliukas/hello-ruby

Coffee, Cake and Kisses - Fundraising for the new iteration of the Coffee, Cake and Kink space. Not totally sure about the new name but I understand why they've had to do it; their heart is in the right place and I hope they make it:

"A relationships-focused social design space. Tease your taste buds & stimulate your senses in the place that makes you go mmm."

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/coffeecakeandkisses/coffee-cake-and-kisses

Also: I've been listening to The Black Keys entire discography for about 5 days now. It helps.

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Bookmarks for 20130614

"No more miracles, loaves and fishes.
Been so busy with the washing of the dishes."

I'm back. Here's some stuff.

Some useful stuff on the blueimp jQuery.UI FileUpload control:

https://github.com/blueimp/jQuery-File-Upload/wiki/How-to-submit-additional-Form-Data

Twitter Bootstrap is just the best bloody thing ever. It feels like cheating when using it to produce what turn out to be really gorgeous, minimalistic, clean web designs.

https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap

Whole bunch of stuff I should have read BEFORE I started writing Xizi:

http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/core/data-modeling/

IPython Notebook looks like a lot of fun, bit like a live, interactive version of One Note maybe?

http://ipython.org/notebook.html