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Hi, I’m Phil Nelson, a writer, developer, and audio-visual maker of stuff. I have been making stuff online for over 25 years. I run RetroStrange and Set Side B. Good to see you.

Blog Archives

Month: March 2012

  • aws – simple access to Amazon EC2 and S3

    [A working and feature-rich command-line interface for Amazon S3 and EC2][link]. Pretty cool. via [@joshu][josh]

    [link]: http://timkay.com/aws/ “aws – simple access to Amazon EC2 and S3”
    [josh]: http://twitter.com/joshu

  • Beautiful web type

    [A collection / demo of the “best” typefaces from Google’s web font directory][link]. Well-curated and paired nicely. This is a great resource.

    [link]: http://hellohappy.org/beautiful-web-type/ “Beautiful web type — the best typefaces from the Google web fonts directory”

  • Apple’s Solution To Image Resolution On The Web

    [The image-set() function][link], which was submitted to the css4-images public mailing list earlier this year.

    [link]: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Feb/1103.html “[css4-images] The image-set() function (for responsive images) from Edward O'Connor on 2012-02-22 (www-style@w3.org from February 2012)”

  • BrowserQuest

    [An HTML5-based massively multiplayer game using WebSockets.][link] I’ve been wishing for something like this to exist for years now.

    [link]: http://browserquest.mozilla.org/ “BrowserQuest”

  • The importance of a response.

    [Authentic Jobs is adding a user-viewable metric for the response rates of potential employers][link]. I love these guys.

    [link]: http://authenticjobs.tumblr.com/post/19742577782/response-rate “Authentic Jobs, The importance of a response.”

  • Adobe Shadow

    [A new iOS app from Adobe which helps you test websites you are developing locally on your mobile devices more easily][link]. Currently free in the App Store.

    [link]: http://itunes.apple.com/app/adobe-shadow/id498621426 “App Store – Adobe Shadow”

  • Community Returns With Wins Over American Idol

    Community is my favorite show on TV right now not titled “Archer” or “The Venture Bros.” and despite how little I care about ratings, it’s good to see the hard (and great) work of the cast & crew rewarded in said ratings.

  • BERG’s Matt Webb on “Products”

    [Ruminations on what a product is and how to think about it.][link] Lots of fairly big thoughts, here, and I like it.

    [link]: http://interconnected.org/home/2012/03/08/air_quotes_product “Air quotes, product ( 8 Mar., 2012, at Interconnected)”

  • Alex Bilbie’s MongoDB Library for CodeIgniter 2

    [Easy to use, and v2 can be implemented in ANY PHP application, not just CodeIgniter.][link] CodeIgniter as a platform just keeps getting better.

    [link]: https://github.com/alexbilbie/codeigniter-mongodb-library/tree/v2 “alexbilbie/codeigniter-mongodb-library at v2”

  • JavaScript WebRTC in Opera Mobile 12

    [Featuring live video from the built-in camera on your mobile, totally within the browser and without plugins.][link] This is great and exciting. [WebRTC][webrtc] is making big strides today.

    [link]: http://weblog.bocoup.com/javascript-webrtc-opera-mobile-12/ “JavaScript WebRTC in Opera Mobile 12 – Bocoup”
    [webrtc]: http://www.w3.org/TR/webrtc/ “WebRTC specification”