Web Excursions are select bookmarks from my travels around the interwebs, because I'm always thinking about you while discovering other people's cool stuff. You mean that much to me. You can see all of my (public) bookmarks on my LinkDing, and visit the bookmarks archive for curated lists across the last few years.
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- explainshell.com - match command-line arguments to their help text
- Via One Thing Well, this little tool can do more to explain the shell commands I and others share than any of us will probably ever write out. Just paste in the command and get an explanation for every option and argument.
- square/apropos
- A very handy Compass plugin that sets up CSS for serving mobile, desktop and @2x versions appropriately from a specifically-named set of assets.
- Spektro Audio
- A talented new sound design company looking to work with developers on UI and game sounds. Demos and a sample pack available.
- Inc
- We’ve started using this at work and it’s been great for collaborative bookmarking.
- Ice.js
- Via Erik Sagen:
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Ice is a track changes implementation, built in javascript, for anything that is contenteditable on the web. Conceived by the CMS Group at The New York Times, ice has been piloting successfully for articles written in the newsroom.
- Mac App Store - Droplr
- This has long been my file-and-screenshot-sharing app of choice. The new annotation option (pro subscription required) is everything I needed to make it a complete solution for me.
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