Control Structure #7: A Sexy Font

Andrew Bailey and Matthew Petschl talk about the New Year, progressive JPEGs, user interfaces, Postgres, Guild Wars, Fonts, and more.

Andrew Bailey and Matthew Petschl talk about the New Year, progressive JPEGs, user interfaces, Postgres, Guild Wars, Fonts, and more.

Things:

It’s official: U.S. hits debt ceiling – Dec. 31, 2012
Performance Calendar » Progressive jpegs: a new best practice
The Perception of Speed | High Performance Web Sites
Max Themes Blog – ✎ If you see a UI walkthrough, they blew it
The Technology Problem – notes.unwieldy
Solve your first-world problem
How multi-disk failures happen – SysAdmin1138 Expounds
MicroSD card FAQ « bunnie’s blog
Ost — Rethinking the value of Scrabble tiles
Summary of the December 24, 2012 Amazon ELB Service Event in the US-East Region
This Mom Gave her Teenage Son an 18-point Contract with his iPhone.
How the Queen of England Beat Everyone to the Internet | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
The comet of the century in 2013 | TIME.com
VP-Elect Joe Biden is Responsible for Open Sourcing Email Encryption? « :-Dustin
The Long Strange Trip to Java
A Tale of Two Bridges – Unprotocols
Scaling Guild Wars for massive concurrency – Code Of Honor
Whose bug is this anyway?!? – Code Of Honor
How 3.6 nearly broke PostgreSQL [LWN.net]
Scaling PostgreSQL at Braintree: Four Years of Evolution
Lanyrd’s Big Move | The Lanyrd Blog
Rob Conery – Five Things You Didn’t Know About PostGresSQL on Vimeo
Is JavaScript the Future of Programming?
PostgreSQL: The world’s most advanced open source database
GAMEFACE : Developing Typefaces for the Xbox 360 and Other Devices – YouTube
Google Web Fonts Open Sans
Google Web Fonts Droid Sans
Segoe UI
DejaVu
Google Web Fonts Cousine
Google Web Fonts
New form features in HTML5 – Dev.Opera

Music:

Younnat – Radar – His Name is Radar
Kyle Gabler – Years of Work*
Kyle Gabler – Just Like You*
Dma-sc – Hail to Sunny Days*

* used with permission of the respective musicians

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #29: CS #7 — Corn Juice!

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