If you’re Dutch and especially if you’re under twelve (wait, you can read this in English? wtfbbq. you’re smart!) go ahead and partake in the Z@PP Puzzelactie! This is a cool project I did across various websites.
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Category Archives: web
On sign-up fees
Pinboard has launched, aka Social Bookmarking for Introverts. The most brilliant aspect about this website is not that it’s basically del.ici.ous as it should have been, but that you have to pay a small fee to sign up. Continue reading
What's new in HTML5?
Title says it all really, and this post is more for my future self than anything else. So what is new in HTML5?
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Video 2.0
Great post on how to publish video on your website, 2009-style. I reckon the <video> tag is here to stay, but I don’t really like the implementation outlined in that post. I would much prefer using something like swfobject to render all that code.
House for sale
The rumours are true! I am moving house to the center of Amsterdam. This means that my current house is on the market. Looking for a nice apt in Oud Zuid/De Pijp? Grab it!
MJ songs through the roof
It was bound to happen: more than a few servers melted under pressure after the news of Michael Jackson’s death broke. Most noteworthy: last.fm plays of MJ went through the roof. (graph after the break)
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Who's the most bestest RoR developer?
Funny “search engine” you can ask a human question: Hunch has just launched. What kinda questions? Well, which sci-fi movie should I watch? The answer, all of them, duh.
Open Flash Chart
Note to my future self. Open Flash Chart is an awesome flash app to display charts. Works with JSON data, easy!
Much2c
Time for a small shameless plug. Nico Schilders, the artist who designed our wedding rings, has a blog. There’s not “much 2 c” yet (har har) but he does showcase some beautiful lighting fixtures. Looks like we will be heading south again, soon.
Canonical URLs
There’s now an official way to denounce the ‘canonical’ URL of a website. Say that my website would listen to ‘spacebabies.nl’ as wel as ‘www.spacebabies.nl’, the new canonical link tag will tell Google which one is the ‘real’ one. Great for SEO purposes.