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Good description of a handy tool that helps test mail server settings.

The annual state of the world.

Does what it says on the tin. !important

"Linux, and the Internet broke everything wide open. It’s taken 20 years to get a lot of it boxed back up again. I hope there are still air cracks by the time my kids are old enough to jam screwdrivers in there."

Nice little hack for faster dynamic HTML with JavaScript.

This library uses an API to get up-to-the-hour currency rates.

Congrats to Jeff and team, they completely changed the way designers work with type on the Web. This makes sense, and I hope Adobe lets the Typekit folks take the lead.

Adobe also purchased PhoneGap, a service that turns HTML5 Web Apps into native phone apps.

haha (not laughing at, with). I can sympathize.

"So, my hypothesis is that IAMA [I am a...] and AMA [ask me anything] are an important type of citizen journalism. Call it 'community journalism.'" TIL (today I learned...) is also a nice convention. [via waxy]

This command line browser that can run JavaScript looks handy for testing web apps.

A necessary evil.

Excerpts from the style sheet of the Kansas City Star, where Ernest Hemingway worked as a reporter in 1917.

Yes, this. There's no easy answer. "So the dis­cus­sion is re­ally about whether, on one hand, you build your mo­bile app with JavaScript and HTML and CSS, or on the other, you ship com­piled code that talks to a frame­work like Co­coa­Touch or An­droid or Win­Phone7."

Great security reminders. A password made up of three distinct words is fairly secure against a brute force attack. If developers build in a delay after failed password attempts that also helps deter brute force attacks. [via capn design]

ugh, this isn't good. "The fructose component of sugar and H.F.C.S. is metabolized primarily by the liver, while the glucose from sugar and starches is metabolized by every cell in the body. Consuming sugar (fructose and glucose) means more work for the liver than if you consumed the same number of calories of starch (glucose)."

Solarized is a color palette for code editors. I've been using these colors in TextMate for a day or so and I'm enjoying it.

"Diesels are wildly popular in Europe, accounting for roughly 50 percent of the car market there. So why don't automakers simply bring the European cars here?" An older article that explains why diesels are hard to come by here.

It's true. This is a very nicely done SSH for iPad/iPhone.