Viewed through today’s eyes, a site that calls excessive attention to its creators’ skills is like an oversized, gold-plated vanity press book of rhyming couplets. Or maybe it’s more like a penis extension in a men’s prison. Either way, although it may be impressive, it’s something nobody needs.

I especially love what Daniel Jalkut had to say about it

Google’s two major assets were awesome search results and likability. They seem to be systematically eroding both with no help from others.

Doug Avery’s immeasurably helpful TextMate bundle allows you to easily insert dummy and placeholder images into your markup, simply by using the “dummy” and “place” tab triggers.

Flash is never going to decrease in popularity so long as all web browsers support it. Flash might decrease in popularity because of iOS. If you believe that Flash’s current position as a de facto standard technology is harmful to the web, then users — not just iOS users but everyone using the web — would benefit if that happens.

Exactly why I have had flash blocked in all of my browsers for years

A command-line utility I use daily in place of grep. Written entirely in Perl, it can take advantage of Perl’s regular expressions to make searching through files from a terminal a snap.