fwiw, we launched a new design for the NYT in Jan with a proper print.css stylesheet.

You might like https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/JSVerbalExpressions

This might be a dumb question: are there shells that have a HTML-based front and passes commands into the background? Seems like something like that would be far more flexible than this – which feels like a Jenga tower of hacks.

TermKit[1] was built in this way a few years ago. It was novel at the time and the demo[2] seemed promising, but looks like it hasn't been updated in ~2 years now.

[1] https://github.com/unconed/TermKit

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6Z5dnlfcls

A reminder that the imbalance of 3px may be intentional:

It means that the post is closer to the comments are closer than to the user, and it pulls your eye more naturally to the comments than if they were perfectly equal.

Sometimes asymmetry is a useful design element, too.

Edit: I noticed that lukeholder has said the same thing.

My guess would be that Twitter has had plans to offer the same functionality.

That's a good point. At this moment, I'd say they are open to anything that makes them money.

Hi, designer here. Sorry about that, you haven't actually been subscribed to a newsletter - you've been put on the waiting list, but we haven't updated the message in the confirmation email. Fixing this now.

Looks interesting, a lot of similarities with android app (I don't own other mobile devices so can't tell if they are all they same).

Question. How long did it take you guys to come up with this design from start to finish?

Also take a peek at:

http://www.nytimes.com/skimmer/#/Top+News

I can't really say – I joined back in August and the project was already underway.

I do a similar thing on my site, filtered by a couple tags I find the most interesting:

http://tanmade.com/reading/publishing.html

Say more about this, please? Is it a single text box?

Sure, here's the source: https://gist.github.com/1609919 Also requires jQuery.

I access it like this: http://domain.com/notepad?key=yoursecret

The JS checks to see if the contents of the textbox has changed, and if it has, it makes a POST request via AJAX to the server that saves it to a text file.

Thanks so much for that! I also added in a Ctrl+S capture because I have an irritating habit of pressing it! Kudos!

Mind sharing your code for that? I think I tried implementing that originally but I could never get it to work.

I just used the shortcut.js library.. You can find it here : http://www.openjs.com/scripts/events/keyboard_shortcuts/

Nothing wrong with working hard. But do it for yourself. Don't do it because a VC tells you to. Don't do it because the owner of a publication that thrives off of startup news tells you to.

I wholeheartedly agree, and I think this is what jwz is getting at as well. Hard work can be rewarding, but only if you let it. Hard work which is pushed on you without your consent is rarely rewarding in any sense of the word.

You might find this interesting: https://github.com/jwiegley/ledger