Tumblr Engineering: Staircar: Redis-powered notifications

Our team just implemented a backend service in Redis as well (though not nearly as large), and our experience was just as positive. It’s is an incredible piece of code. Read more »

“Enhanced” Pat-Downs / Mass Sexual Assault

I usually stay away from soap boxes on here, but this is just too much: Read more »

When intuition and math probably look wrong

Fascinating riddle: The part about Tuesday does matter, and there is an answer. Read more »

Define “Open Standard”

From an interview of Adobe Cofounder Chuck Geschke by All Things Digital’s John Paczkowski: As John Gruber observes: "In other words, Adobe maintains as much control over its own platforms and formats as it sees… Read more »

What they don’t teach you…

— Paula Scher [via TJ] Read more »

It’s that simple.

From the blog of Jean-Louis Gassée. Read more »

Time interview with Steve J.

From this Time article. Read more »

IE6 Funeral

RIP, IE6: ie6funeral.com Don’t worry, I’ve already moved on… Read more »