By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: March 19, 2007
Monday, 19 March 2007
- Using the Undocumented Highrise API ★
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Simon Willison:
The Highrise API appears to be at least partially up and running; it just isn’t documented yet. In various places around the site you can add .xml to the end of a URL to get an XML representation of the resource (very RESTful).
- Mark Pilgrim Hired by Google ★
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Now that I think about this, I’m surprised they didn’t hire him long ago. Congratulations.
- Highrise: Shared Contact Manager and Task List ★
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Now available: 37signals’s answer to CRM.
- Human Breakout on YouTube ★
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Someone page Cabel for me. (Thanks to Jeremy Bogan.)
- Adobe Apollo Uses WebKit for HTML Rendering on All Platforms ★
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From the FAQ:
What HTML and JavaScript Engine is used within Apollo?
HTML and JavaScript within Apollo are handled by the WebKit HTML / JavaScript engine.
(Thanks to Jesper.)
- Jackass of the Week: George Ou ★
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What a moron.
- Sort Fields in iTunes 7.1 ★
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Paul Mison’s terrific exploration and documentation of the new sorting features in iTunes 7.1. The gist is that iTunes now lets you specify the “sort name” for various metadata fields, so, for example, you can have all tracks by “John Lennon” sort as though they’re by “Lennon, John”.
- Soho ★
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New family of typefaces from Monotype; I like the heavier weights quite a bit. (Via Jason Santa Maria.)
- Primality Regex ★
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Neil Kandalgaonkar explains Abigail’s famous Perl regex that identifies prime numbers.
- Todd Dominey Goes Full-Time With SlideShowPro ★
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Reminds me of Shaun Inman — a designer who turns himself into a very successful web app developer not as part of a plan, but as an unexpected result of building something very cool.
- Oh Yeeaahh! ★
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Khoi Vinh’s grid-based design of a hypothetical Yahoo-ish web portal, plus the slides from his and Mark Boulton’s “Grids Are Good” presentation at last week’s SXSWi.
Vinh is the world’s preeminent grid-based web designer. I find that it’s always worth studying his use of rules — where he places them, how thick, what color. (E.g. notice how 1-pixel gray lines create the illusion of thinner-than-1px hairlines.)
His article from December 2004 on Subtraction’s own design is a masterpiece of self-exempliflication.
- Twittermap FAQ ★
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“Fancy Web 2.0 Mash-Up created using Twitter’s public feed and the Google Maps API”.
- Branches: ‘What This Is About’ ★
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Nice piece on drawing inspiration and motivation from SXSW.