Command+R in Chief

Fair and Squire General web Android IDE Android studio has been updated to 1.0 [android-developers.blogspot]. Squire [github/neilj] is an HTML5 rich text editor, built for writing documents rather than creating websites. Rant [github/theberkin] is a language for adding rich, interesting variations to text, allowing randomness to creep into documents. What an <adjective-postive> < noun-abstract>!

Open a Dialog Design So this is a great collection of dialog effects [tympanus]. And here’s the designer’s guide to DPI [sebastien-gabriel]. Then here are some Despicable Me minions created in CSS [cssdeck].

Character Trait SitePoint First up on SitePoint today, we had a look at sorting tables in JavaScript with Tablesorter. Here’s an examination of six static blog generators that aren’t the commonly-used Jekyll. Then we have a look at Traits in PHP, using Doctrine in a Symfony environment. As part of our Christmas sales extravaganza this year, we asked our editors and authors what they’d want for Christmas, sourced it for them, and then found a few more goodies to give away. Today’s All I Want for Christmas giveaway was Sendy, a self-hosted email provider. Take a look and win!

Command+R in Chief News/business Barack Obama has become the first president to write a computer program [wired], drawing a square on a screen using Google’s ‘Blockly’ tool, and writing a line of JavaScript. If only he’d thought of doing this a year ago, the Obamacare website launch might’ve gone a little smoother. Facebook has brought its Graph Search to mobile [search.fb], so now you can perform weird stalker-ey searches on the go! Meanwhile, Portland is suing Uber [portandoregon]. The Verge has a nicely-presented list of the 50 most important people in tech, art, science and culture [theverge]. Trigger warning: Features Matthew McConaughey, Kim K. Do a lot of the start-up ideas you see lately feel a bit familiar? Yeah, they kinda are, as a lot of the Dot-Com boom ideas have returned from the dead [wired]. Not ominous at all.

Virtual Lethality Off-topic It’s very hard to describe this, so just check it out for yourself: Entire Screen of One Game [entire.spacebar]. Maybe hold off on all the virtual reality, if this list of possible risks from Samsung is anything to go by [arstechnica]. Today in bleak apps: Alibi [motherboard.vice] records everything your phone sees and hears, which is apparently necessary for interacting with the police these days. Status [trystatus] is a canned-status-update app. It’s pretty much Twitter back when Twitter first launched. Mailtoself [mailtoself] is an iOS app to make emailing yourself something easier than ever. Which is probably not a good thing.

Those are our links for today. We're all recovering from not being on the Verge's top 50 list, but we'll get over it. See you again tomorrow!