It’s one of Silicon Valley’s great oddities that start-up founders refer to themselves as “entrepreneurs.” More often than not, the people who come up with company ideas have no understanding of how to run a business or turn a profit. Partly as a result, the relationship between the entrepreneurs, who have the ideas, and the venture capitalists, who finance them, can become tense.

Nick talks about the history Twitter, it’s founders, and how it got to where it is today. I’m very curious to know how much of this story is true—but regardless it’s an incredibly fun read.

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Updates while you sleep: With WordPress 3.7, you don’t have to lift a finger to apply maintenance and security updates. Most sites are now able to automatically apply these updates in the background. The update process also has been made even more reliable and secure, with dozens of new checks and safeguards.

This is a huge feature and another great reason to be developing on WordPress. It’s amazing to see how far this platform has come.

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CSS features that can degrade gracefully (E.g. border-radius) are set by default to adhere to the $graceful-usage-threshold variable. This variable defaults to 0.1 which means that when 0.1% of users (1 in 1,000) would be affected by removing the prefix for that feature, it will be removed.

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This is one of the main reasons I continue to use Compass instead of SASS by itself. It’s a very smart system that derives its use threshold variables off of Can I Use data.

UPDATE: I use vanilla sass now days in combination with Autoprefixer.

That’s a significant number. Should be interesting to see where they’re at next year and I wouldn’t be surprised if they tip the 50% marker.

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If you learn and fol­low these five ty­pog­ra­phy rules, you will be a bet­ter ty­pog­ra­ph­er than 95% of pro­fes­sion­al writ­ers and 70% of pro­fes­sion­al de­sign­ers.

The world would be a better place if everyone would take ten minutes to read this.

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Start blogging, right now. It’s the single highest-return strategy that we’ve used for user acquisition.

It’s hard to argue with numbers.

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(Via Ian Stewart)

The time has come to simply acknowledge that the PC era peaked two years ago, and has started to irreversibly contract. The only question is how fast.

Yep.

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GoDaddy has been transformed in recent months and is essentially a new company.

How a company becomes ‘essentially new’ in a few months takes a stretch of the imagination. It’s hard to forget SOPA and Godaddy’s full support of the bill before everyone on the Internet voiced their opinion about it. At any rate I’m relieved that I all ready migrated my sites off of Media Temple earlier this year and by chance remain a non-customer of GoDaddy.

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Team Sass Design goes at with a sharp new look for sass-lang.com. Overall it’s a bit less in-your-face sassy, but it’s refreshing and those glasses are brilliant.

#noparents is more than an emotionally charged hashtag to express your individuality and independence as an angsty teenager. Turns out it makes a lot of sense when writing CSS, too.

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Jonathan Snook also talks about this in his book, which I recommend you check out if you’re a CSS developer.

Beautiful.

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These are fun and make the hamburger icon just a bit more bearable.

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Looks like a great concept for improving performance by reducing document reflows.

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A Web where you cannot cut and paste text; where your browser can’t “Save As…” an image; where the “allowed” uses of saved files are monitored beyond the browser; where JavaScript is sealed away in opaque tombs; and maybe even where we can no longer effectively “View Source” on some sites, is a very different Web from the one we have today. It’s a Web where user agents—browsers—must navigate a nest of enforced duties every time they visit a page. It’s a place where the next Tim Berners-Lee or Mozilla, if they were building a new browser from scratch, couldn’t just look up the details of all the “Web” technologies. They’d have to negotiate and sign compliance agreements with a raft of DRM providers just to be fully standards-compliant and interoperable.

Really surprised (and concerned) that DRM seems to be working its way into W3C proposals.

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