Bruce Lawson's personal site

Web tech

• HTML5 media and data URIs
• iPhone 5 website teardown: How Apple compresses video using JPEG, JSON, and <canvas> – the crazy lengths Apple will go to in order not to serve open video
• The EMs have it: Proportional Media Queries FTW
• Time to load localStorage into memory – how slow is localStorage on desktop? Not that slow at all.
• Server-Side Device Detection: History, Benefits And How-To – why UA-sniffing is better than Responsive Web Design, by the CTO of .mobi and the co-founder of WURFL

Do Not Track

• Direct Marketing Association attempts to subvert Do Not Track standard – “Marketing fuels the world. It is as American as apple pie…Its byproduct also furthers democracy, free speech, and – most importantly in these times – JOBS.”
• The Bizarre, Belated Assault on Do Not Track
• Advertisers ignoring Microsoft’s ‘do not track’ settings will not break industry rules, says ad body

Industry

• A primer on sexism in the tech industry by Faruk Ateş
• A primer on sexism in the tech industry – by an actual girl
• How Do They Make Money? – a look at how big web companies generate revenue

Misc

• The sound of a baby crying, pitched down. Freaky.
• I found your camera

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