1. Sep 5th, 2011

    Rounded Corners 283 — Faster horses

    Faster horses Dan Saffer nails it:

    If I’d asked designers what they wanted, they would have said a quote to put in all their powerpoint slides. Henry Ford

    On a more serious note, Patrick Vlaskovits on what Ford did and didn’t say and why his attitude cost him dearly:

    The real lesson learned was not that that Ford’s failure was one of not listening to his customers, but of his refusal to continuously test his vision against reality, which led to the Ford Motor Company’s failure of continuous innovation, resulting in a catastrophic loss of market share from which it never recovered.

    All your base The universal Base class you’ve always wanted. And you thought ActiveRecord::Base is too big for comfort.

    Smart cookie 5 obscure facts about HTML5′s localStorage.

    Misogyny So this happened Death Threats and Hate Crimes, Attacks On Women Bloggers Escalating. And yes, this shit is real, Google and you’ll see some of the crazy directed at her.

    Sweet Sugar.js and ES5 Compliance: What does it mean?

    Pitching Pitchography is a fun and cool service for making up pitch presentations. Watch the video, you’ll love it. One of my favorite entrants in Node Knockout.

    Image, found via Gimme Bar, which is totally awesome. Here’s my firehose.

    Your comment, here ⇓