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  • Hello Instagram.

    For a short while now, I’ve been working together with the great people at Instagram. And today I am happy to announce that I have joined their team!

    What I have learned in my short stint of freelancing is that I especially love working on a product, even if it’s been on a client- / contract basis. The focus this work brings allowed me to put extra care, and dare I say love, into my past few projects. Focusing on a single product is, for me, the next logical step.

    I wish all of you happy holidays! Let’s make amazing, delightful things in 2012.

  • CodeKit

    A while ago I wrote about a SASS Watcher service I had written. Somewhere in between then and now CodeKit got released as a public beta.

    CodeKit supports compiling of LESS and Sass, inclusion of frameworks, syntax checking and minification of Javascript, optimization of images and much more. The only thing I’m not a fan of is how it treats network drives and mounts.

  • Wilson Miner’s When We Build

    Please drop everything and watch this now. And if you can’t, make it the only priority you have next to your current task.

    It’s amazing. Not that commoditized sense of amazing. Actually astonishingly, beautifully amazing.

  • scriptogr.am

    A simple online tool that converts static Markdown text files, located in your Dropbox, into a beautiful blog.

    Not sure it’s for me, but that’s pretty awesome.

  • UI Toolkit

    An amazing package of royalty free patterns, icons and the whole shebang for a measly eight bucks.

  • “Why I hate Android”

    Personally, I am not a fan of the design perspective; the proliferation of screen sizes and versions, and the lack of proper update support.

    But MG Siegler’s article just outlined a whole different side to Android and the lifetime of the OS that has made me even more skeptical about it.

    When I see Google talk about how “open” the platform is, setting it up as the foil to the “closed” (and framed as “evil”) iPhone, I want to scream and rip someone’s head off. It’s not only the most extreme example of being disingenuous that I can ever recall seeing — it’s nuclear bullshit.

  • Acko.net Re-design

    For today, “Steven Wittens”https://twitter.com/unconed wins at the internet, with an insane re-design of acko.net.

    P.S. Insanity only available on WebKit.

  • Flickr’s update ambitions for 2012

    This year is going to be big at Flickr! In the coming weeks and months you will see significant updates to Flickr’s user experience, new features and offerings across devices. Our goal is to build a gorgeous, intuitive, and truly beautiful experience for you, your friends and your photos.

    Their blog post is centered around focus, announcing the removal of certain features as well as support for older browsers. I have my hopes set high for a re-aligned, more focused flickr.

  • Ben Chestnut’s CreativeMornings Talk

    Ben is the CEO and co-founder of MailChimp. In this talk, he shows a glimpse of his path to where he is today, as well as an insight into how MailChimp is run.

    Definitely a must-watch for any creative or entrepreneur.

  • Cubby Hook

    Perfect for entry areas as a place to hang a scarf or a handbag and store keys at the same time, it will also work near your desk, in the kitchen or bathroom and hold small items or any kind.

    One of those things that you know they will de-clutter your living space.

  • Why we shouldn’t bike with a helmet

    Mikael Colville-Andersen talks about the fear mongering that surrounds cycling and the parties that push this fear to the forefront.

    Cycling helmets are only really useful for single-party accidents at higher speeds. If you’re a racing cyclist, wear a helmet. But wearing a helmet in everyday cycling commute is ridiculous. He also wrote an interesting article that goes into a bit more detail.

    (via @shiflett)

  • Poly

    [Poly] is inspired by the Triangulation invented by the mathematician Boris Delaunay in 1934. While the process behind is complicated, the result reduce an image to its essentials, creating the illusions of triangles, prisms and pyramids.

    Just watch the video. As @danrubin noted: an instant purchase.

  • Chosen

    Chosen is a JavaScript plugin that makes long, unwieldy select boxes much more user-friendly.

    Pretty fancy. (via)

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