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Behold, the printf of doom.

Whoa! I know kung fu.

For i (puts on sunglasses) for eyes. Yeeeeaaaaahhhh!

From Rossum's Univeral Robots to Google's driverless cars.

Enjoy it while it lasts. Skeuomorphism will return... to bury us all in Rich Corinthian Leather.

Once giants lived in the earth...

Computer models that might account for all the different phases in the lifespan of a bubble.

He knocked on all the doors. Many of them were unlocked.

And by "done right" we mean "so you can undo it later."

What's new is old again.

We should model our teams and our communication structures after the architecture we want.

This is finally the year of the Linux space station.

Survey says: Not documentation.

Google's decision to fork the WebKit codebase into Blink caused a lot of hand-wringing and gnashing of teeth among web developers, but as Nicholas C. Zakas points out, one important detail went largely overlooked: Google plans to stop creating new JavaScript and CSS vendor prefixes in Blink. Read on to find out why this is welcome and long overdue.

Faster is better. And vendors - from broadband providers to browser vendors to framework developers - love to tell you how much faster their solution is from the competitor. But how fast is fast today? Steve Souders takes a look at some speed metrics from across the industry to see how solutions compare and what that means for the business of the web.

As you've seen, site performance has a real effect on customer response. Is your site as fast as it can be? Here are five basic tips from the folks at Statsgram to help your pages load as quickly as possible. Start with these basics before you move on to more advanced optimization techniques.

Let's stick with site performance for a moment, but turn our attention to what that means for responsive web sites. You need to serve up different image sizes and pixel densities to different devices and browsers, but need to keep within your "performance budget"... and Jason Grigsby shows you how to weigh the different tradeoffs for determining the "breakpoint" sizes for responsive images.

Traditionally, we displayed long lists or longform writing by either loading up all the content at once (with potential performance issues) or paging it (with potential navigation issues). The infinite scroll design pattern lets you display all of the content in one page while only loading content beyond the first page as the reader scrolls to it. Yogev Ahuvia explains the good, the bad and the ugly of the long scroll.

We're still figuring out the best practices for responsive design in a rapidly changing web landscape. Adobe and National Geographic recently worked together on these technical and design issues. Christian Cantrell shows you what they created and how you can employ their design ideas in your own projects.

The rise of mobile devices brings with it a new, touch-centric direction for web browsing, and Microsoft is leading the way in embracing this paradigm in IE10. Florence Ion explains what Microsoft learned from iPad users on the way to building a new browsing experience in Windows 8 with IE.

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New features help much more at review time than improvements to old ones.

This is real and it's dangerous. Be careful out there, folks.