Invaluable for troubleshooting web development in IE. Wish I'd known about this before today!

"I'd much rather rely on a subset of trusty old HTML than expend brain cells trying to remember the fake-HTML way to make something bold, or create a hyperlink. HTML isn't perfect, but it's an eminently reasonable humane markup language."

In response to Calacanis' "fire people who aren't workaholics" bullshit. "If your start-up can only succeed by being a sweatshop, your idea is simply not good enough."

Hide an email address from spammers with Javascript-powered character encoding. Sweet.

"Given the coming battle for dominance over the mobile web and the size of the potential market (over half the world’s population), the most likely outcome is that we will see a return to proprietary extensions—a replay of the browser wars..."

Some rather obvious reflections, but valuable all the same -- the continued appearance of articles like this shows how important these lessons are. On the volatility of web apps, designers, the relationship thereof, and how important the user is.

Big Medium developer Josh Clarks talks about the many miles to go after completing the launch milestone, the importance of long and consistent hours, and the constant refinement of software development and support.

"WebKit is an open source web browser engine. WebKit is also the name of the Mac OS X system framework version of the engine that's used by Safari, Dashboard, Mail, and many other OS X applications."

What's new in OpenID 2.0. There are "160 million already existing OpenIDs." Still, we need "support for OpenID-authenticated commenting by the major blog hosters."

Run IE5, 5.5, 6, and 7 in OS X under X11 emulation. It actually works perfectly and installs in minutes with a few clicks.

rsaquo.net is your first and best source for all of the information you’re looking for. From general topics to more of what you would expect to find here, rsaquo.net has it all. We hope you find what you are searching for!

Finally, a tutorial for getting size and line height to render and scale exactly the same in all browsers for a given font size. Requires some basic math in the stylesheet.

Free Mac software for taking webpage screenshots. Can capture the entire length of a page (beyond the "fold").

An excellent resource for wireframing.

On using microformats in posts and the like. Takes a considerable amount of extra effort, but that's what being an early adopter is all about.

Like it says, a shell script to automatically install the perfect Ruby on Rails development environment on OS X. Useful!

Notes on optimizing for speed and the benefits thereof. Note: "If someone completes their task on a site successfully, they will feel the site was faster than it truly was. If they can’t succeed, they will perceive it as being slower."

Great interviews with web developers and luminaries, including Khoi Vinh, Jason Fried of 37signals, Jeff Veen, Merlin Mann, Heather Champ, Dan Cederholm, and Guy Kawasaki.

Detailed to the point of being almost unreadable!

Notes on the growing importance of design in business. Good short reads.

Persai is the Web 2.0 app of the guys who write Uncov. They've been pre-blogging the app for months now. I'm not sure how many people are reading this because I've seen zero mention of it anywhere, but it's a nice model to follow anyway.

Ugly "Browse..." buttons be gone!

On starting over. "It's better to have something we're both proud off than to try and salvage the work done so far. Sometimes you have to go all the way through the design process before you realize that you've built the wrong thing."

A history of Amazon's site design, and a preview of what's next.

Discussion, in regards to mircoformats and WHATWG , of the value of the "Pareto Principle," which states that 80% of the problems should be solved with 20% of the effort.

The technologies that went into the latest one-to-many message-tumblr-filesharing-social web app.

The API, which "has 10 times as much traffic as the site itself," has been arguably the biggest reason for Twitter's success. I'd say its simplicity and the fact that it was more or less the first of its kind were just as important. Good article.

An awesome collective of creative/design types. A great "About" page.