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Hive an Idea General web bigpicture.js [github/josephernest] is a JavaScript library that allows for infinite panning and zooming around HTML pages. Skeleton [getskeleton] is a super light, responsive boilerplate, designed with mobile as a focus. Hive [github/nytlabs] is a Go tool built by the New York Times, designed to help organizations (like, oh, newspapers and publications) manage crowdsourcing tasks. Ubuntu has released Ubuntu Core, a quick new rendition of Ubuntu built with the cloud in mind. Here’s an intro [markshuttleworth].

Bookmark Up Design Bookmarker [github/turbobabr] is a way to bookmark layers in a Sketch document. Handy if you have a million layers you want to navigate easily. Here’s a great design concept for an Apple Watch task app [behance].

See Stars SitePoint On SitePoint today, we had a look at 9 reasons to love Meteor 1.0 Then there’s a very useful guide to 5 SEO trends you need to be taking into account for next year. And here’s a look at generating responsive image assets using Photoshop CC 2014.

Class Act News/business The Apple DRM trial is getting a little weirder, with the class action suit losing all its lead plaintiffs but then gaining a new one who read about the suit on tech site Ars Technica [arstechnica]. Meanwhile, Apple is doing some weird, contradictory things when it comes to approving apps using the new abilities that came with iOS 8 [cromulentlabs.wordpress]. No-one’s happy [mjtsai]. Here’s everything you need to know about micro-data, schema, and rich snippets [builtvisible]. This is a really great, bullet-point guide to getting started with coding and building products [christinacacioppo]. And here’s a look at a tool that silences Twitter harrassment [motherboard.vice]. Extremely depressing that this needs to exist at all. Wired takes a look at the effort put into making Google Maps so accurate [wired]. Lastly for this section, Paul Graham thinks mean people finish last [paulgraham].

Insta-Damn! Off-topic An interesting art project focused on terms of service agreements [behance]. It’s probably too late for Christmas, but get a load of these 3D printed earbuds [toolsandtoys], made to measure from photos of your ear. Famous paintings extended algorithmically [extrapolated-art]. A lovely post about introducing a child to video games in the order they were created [medium]. Markticle [markticle] marks how far through an article you are, so you can come back and start at the same spot. It’s like half the functionality of a tool like Instapaper or Pocket. Dashlane [dashlane] is a new password manager that appears to have a lot of great functionality. Finally, here’s the most terrifying app we’ve seen in a while. Likecreeper [likecreeper] will like a random old Instagram post from one of your friends, so they’ll assume you’re a stalker. Which, let's face it, you probably are.

Those are our links for today, and the week! The next few days will be spent in an undisclosed location far away from the grid of tubes and sites in which we spend our lives. We'll survive, probably. See you next week!