Whew! It’s been awhile. Here’s some links for the New Year!

• Sonic Pi - Neat Ruby-based synthesizer
• OSS Perks - Organizations offering free services for open-source projects
• criterion: a Haskell microbenchmarking library - I don’t know Haskell, but this looks like a nice library with some benchmarking statistics
• smartystreets/goconvey · GitHub - Beautiful test runner for go with a nice web and terminal UI
• E.gg Timer - a simple countdown timer
• What 2,000 Calories Looks Like - NYTimes.com - Maybe a biased, but I enjoyed the photography
• What colour is it? - color based time
• Aerial Wallpapers
• Making the most detailed tweet map ever | Mapbox
• DataTau - HackerNews for data people
• Norse - IPViking Live - Watch DDoS attacks on a world map in real time
• Music Reviews, Ratings, Charts, News | Album of The Year - Awesome site for music discovery (via @jordi2108)
• NoiseTrade - Free indie music, a project of
• SelectorGadget: point and click CSS selectors - Awesome bookmarklet for generating selectors
• Pttrns - Mobile User Interface Patterns
• MetricsGraphics.js - a library based on D3.js, optimized for visualizing and laying out time-series data - Neat charting library powered by D3
• New Event Notifications for Amazon S3 - You can now trigger events when objects are added/removed/updated in S3 buckets to SNS, SQS, or “Cloud Functions”
• Couleurs - Free Mac color picker that also lets you tweaking the colors
• Disney’s new Production Renderer ‘Hyperion’ – Yes, Disney! | fxguide - Big Hero 6 was a pretty good movie
• 7 Principles of Rich Web Applications | - UX and performance tips
• Rails Rumble Gem Teardown - DwellableTrends - Great resource to see what gems folks are choosing for Rails apps, found some gems I haven’t heard of
• My favorite iOS 8 features, big and small | DanFrakes.com - Even dimmer!
• Whiskey - New Markdown Mac app
• huyng/bashmarks - Bookmarks for your shell
• What’s Behind the Great Podcast Renaissance? – NYMag - Why podcasts are popular
• Gear for Making Great Pour-over Coffee | The Sweethome - I’ve got into a rhythm of using an Aeropress almost every morning, but I’d like to try pour-over, the Kalita Wave Dripper 185 looks like a good way to go (via @greghuber)
• Usage - Simple little app that sits in your Mac’s menubar and watches what apps you use the most