Compound Interest is a really interesting site that gives information about chemical compounds in various everyday items, what they do, and how they work. The information is provided as an infographic. Examples include: What Causes “New Car Smell”?, How Does Sunscreen Work?, The Colors of Gemstones, and Why Does Bacon Smell So Good?
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wavepot
Cool audio experiment thingie in the browser.
Videogrep: Automatic Supercuts with Python – Sam Lavigne
A simple concept, but a good bit of hackery. Videogrep can search through video dialog (using a subtitle file) for patterns, and automatically assemble a supercut.
Socket.IO — Introducing Socket.IO 1.0
Socket.io 1.0 is out, with some, modular new architecture.
Data Sources
I hadn’t realized that Atlanta’s MARTA transit system has public real-time data feeds for bus and train arrivals.
Migrating virtual machines from Amazon EC2 to Google Compute Engine | @jnoxon's thoughts
Nothing I need to know how to do right now, but maybe I’ll find it useful in the future.
Migrating virtual machines from Amazon EC2 to Google Compute Engine | @jnoxon’s thoughts
JavaScript Charts | amCharts
Debugging Asynchronous JavaScript with Chrome DevTools - HTML5 Rocks
Async call stack debugging in Chrome Canary. Mind. Blown.
Debugging Asynchronous JavaScript with Chrome DevTools – HTML5 Rocks
After Dark in CSS
Just for fun: After Dark screensavers in CSS.
Cockos Incorporated | LICEcap
“simple animated screen captures” Capture an live view of a portion of your screen as an animated GIF.