Week 279 - Interesting links

The Search Features You’ve Been Looking For

This is a great improvement to the search functionality in Trello. I’ve certainly felt the pain of not being able to find a card by searching for something I knew I’d written in a comment before. — CR

Google+ Stories and Movies: memories made easier

I really like the look of this new feature of Google+. It’s almost making me want to start using Google+ to store my photos. — CR

Habitat - a programmable personal datastore (early progress)

Habitat is a self hosted, programmable personal-data server controlled via gherkin syntax.

This project by Richard Pope sounds pretty interesting, and certainly appears to have some crossover with some Indieweb projects. — CR

Everyone is totally just winging it, all the time

This echoes advice I was given years ago. It’s good to be reminded of it. — JM

What 60 years of political gerrymandering looks like

An interesting analysis which suggests districts in US states are becoming more gerrymandered over time. — JM

The Plan for RSpec 3

You have to admire the amount of effort the Rspec team has put into the upgrade path from version 2 to version 3. — JM

Project: Columba

A neat internet-conected compass-like device built by Tom Armitage which always points towards the nearest Boris Bike docking station with free spaces. — JM