Mike linked me to this interesting page on subtle UI cues and features the other day. It focuses mainly on stuff in the old Apple OS’s, in many cases showcasing interesting little things you may not even have noticed. It’s kind of depressing, then, to see the recently-released iTunes 10 sporting this abomination: →

Spur is a small-ish gastropub in Belltown run by acclaimed chefs Brian McCracken and Dana Tough. Their focus is “New American” cuisine, and their lineup shifts every month or so, according to what is seasonally available. The restaurant’s blog posts the changes to the menu as they happen; it’s a bit tricky to find out what currently available, but it’s probably more fun just to show up and be surprised. →

Consistency is the principle benefit of having a documented coding style. The details of the style itself are usually not terribly relevant. If you are a developer who works on multiple projects, or even one who just dabbles at home after work, you probably have to cope with at least two different coding styles. →

I came across Robert Nystrom’s Game Programming Patterns site a little while back; a link to it has been sitting in my Instapaper queue for a while now, accompanied by a note that says I should write something about it. The site is the online counterpart to a book that Nystrom, a lead engineer at EA Tiburon, is in the process of writing. The book itself sounds like it will shape up to be a modern, game-oriented version of the classic Gang of Four patterns book, and while the website is still relatively sparsely populated, the content that is available makes for good reading. →

Fever is a unique RSS reader that tries to alleviate the psychological pressure of unread counts and the grind of paging through essentially-duplicate stories from multiple feeds by performing some sort of analysis on the items in your feeds and bubbling the ‘hot’ content to the top. I’ve been using it for a week or so now. →