It looks like James Cameron is going to be recording three new Avatar films. I can’t wait to see the next installments!

This is a good read on design principles in software applications.

I stumbled on Animate.css today. It contains a bunch of pure CSS animations for use in your own projects.

I found this very comprehensive comparison of iOS text editors today. I’m still not happy editing without a filesystem, but perhaps one of these apps handles it in a non-shitty-cloud-syncing way.

Railsconf was a blast. Here are just a few links I gathered during the various talks: https://gist.github.com/2495211

Beyond excited to be attending Railsconf in Austin, TX this year! Can’t wait to finally meet the rest of Site5 Engineering team in person. If you’re at any of the bars afterward, make sure to flag down Site5 for a drink!

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This was a pretty cool story about how the developer of the original Prince of Persia game was able to recover it’s source code after 20 years. It almost makes me wish I had kept my pile of floppy disks!

This is a pretty comprehensive article that discusses the overall shittiness of PHP. Many of the points listed here are reasons I love Ruby over PHP.

Today I learned that gifs can have more than 256 colors. Using more seems unpractical, but it’s still a cool trick.

This was an interesting article about resizing vector icons — in short, the details count, and SVG is no replacement for a designer’s keen eye.