Month: May 2015

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    BLEEP BLOOP! Mystery project has begun…

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    Little My Softie Femgineer – 2 Simple Steps to Start Getting Paid to Speak GoDaddy Isn’t the Company You Think It Is Mad Max’s insane vehicles look awesome in Lego Dust off your crayons: Adult coloring books are here

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  • Little My Softie

    I wanted to make a special present for my niece Cali, so I thought that I’d whip up a “Little My” softie. Little My is from the Moomin books, and she’s Cali’s favourite character. (I know because I sent her this Uniqlo t-shirt and she LOVED it.) So I started by downloading a line drawing…

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  • I mentioned recently that I entered YOW!‘s “Women in Tech Speaking Competition” and won a spot at a full-day training session with Damian Conway. The training took place at the start of May, and the format was essentially to give a talk and get feedback from Damian and the other participants (nine other women). We…

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  • Yesterday I found myself staring at the Brumby skirt from Megan Nielsen and my finger was hovering above the “Buy” button. Something made me hesitate. Don’t I already have loads of skirt patterns? I realised that one of the downfalls of buying PDF patterns online is that I don’t have a good system in place…

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  • Fred George / Kevin Lynagh – Agile JIT / ClojureScript | YOW! Nights – Looks like an interesting evening of talks! Anybody else going?

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    The housesitter left it behind. Dare I? The cats are dubious.

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    Ash vs. Evil Dead Teaser: 30 Years Later and Ash’s Chainsaw Is Still Very Bloody Student Designs an Extra-Extra-Large Game Boy Why Ben & Jerry’s Will Never Put Bacon In Its Ice Cream The Mystery of the Margate Shell Grotto – Neatorama The Scripps National Spelling Bee Ends in Another Tie

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  • TIL: Back pressure

    Knowing when to back off – Engineering at Canva – Great post by brendanh about how Canva throttles back its “auto-save” functionality during times of peak usage. It introduced me to the term back pressure as applies to IT as well.

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  • Reading

    How BentoBox Is Ending the Era of Badly Designed Restaurant Websites Despite What Zappos Says, Middle Managers Still Matter Moleskine releases a gorgeous, minimalist calendar app for iPhone Pebble Time review: the simple but effective answer to Apple Watch

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