Ladda – CodePen »

A UI concept that unites the loading indicator with the button that the user clicked to provide immediate feedback. Nicely executed.

Screensiz.es »

A table showing “the screen specifications of the most popular devices and monitors currently on the market.”

Media Queries »

A collection of sites that use media queries and responsive web design practices.

adobe-webplatform/balance-text · GitHub »

A jQuery plugin to ensure that multi-line text is rendered so that the amount of text per line is roughly the same.

The Top 50 Barbecue Joints from Texas Monthly »

Every five years, Texas Monthly “dispatches a team of trained eaters to travel around Texas incognito, ingesting huge amounts of barbecue. Their goal is to visit as many of the state’s approximately two thousand barbecue joints as possible in order to come up with a list of the fifty best.”

Only 18 from 2008 are made the list five years later.

TNEF’s Enough »

Handy OS X app to open winmail.dat attachments sent by Outlook users.

Swoop Bags »

A bag for legos and other toys, that transforms into a playmat. A clean design that makes cleanup easy.

This Is Responsive »

“Tips, Resources and Patterns for Responsive Web Design”

InterviewThis »

“an open source list of developer questions to ask prospective employers during the hiring process” Nice.

American English Dialects, Based on Pronunciation Patterns »

Save bandwidth with webP – soon with fallback! »

Retro Vectors »

It Will Be Exhilarating »

An ebook about “Indie Capitalism and Design Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century, As Observed By Studio Neat”

Why We (Still) Believe in Working Remotely »

If you aren’t doing this yet, you will – this is the future and the future is now.

Hidden Doors, Secret Rooms, and the Hardware that makes it possible »

/purpose »

A great idea: “Sharing your purpose means being explicit about the place you ultimately want to take people and about the metrics you use for measuring success. By doing that, you elevate the dialog you can have with users and treat them with greater respect. You also bring them along for the ride, transforming future updates from arbitrary change to progress. “

TowTruck »

This could be very useful for support and content teams of SaaS products. “A service for your website that makes it surprisingly easy to collaborate in real-time…TowTruck lets users communicate, co-author, co-browse and guide each other.”

Unfit for Work: The startling rise of disability in America | Planet Money »

CodePen »

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The Hidden Lever to Raise Aisle Seat Armrests on Airplanes »