TTMMHTM: Valves, Adobe

Things that made me happy this morning:

  • The [new employee’s handbook at Valve](http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/21/2964991/valves-handbook-for-new-employees-leak) ([PDF](http://newcdn.flamehaus.com/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.pdf)) is pretty much how things like that should be written. Great job.
  • [Adobe’s new HTML landing page](http://html.adobe.com/) shows their open source web things in one spot
  • [Angular.js](http://angularjs.org/) by Google is a new MVC framework in JavaScript
  • Twitter hacking the software patents world with their [](http://blog.twitter.com/2012/04/introducing-innovators-patent-agreement.html)
  • Twitter releasing a [Code Class](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh4O6DRs26M) video. this.droid joke FTW
  • Brad Frost, who will be the next web superhero, delivering a great article on HTML5rocks.com on [Creating a Mobile-First Responsive Web Design](http://www.html5rocks.com/en/mobile/responsivedesign/)
  • My boss Stormy opening the lid on how Mozilla creates communities of awesome at the [Global Community Champions Workshop](http://stormyscorner.com/2012/04/global-community-champions-workshop.html)
  • [Browser Pairs](http://moztw.org/foxmosa/game/pairs/) is a lovingly designed HTML5 game pairing browser images([source on GitHub](https://github.com/moztw/browserpairs)) – an upgrade of [my attempt at that](http://thewebrocks.com/demos/browsermemory/), if you will.
  • [Benham’s top](http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/col_benham/index.html) is an interesting little optical illusion creating colours by spinning a black and white pattern
  • [Stroll.js](http://lab.hakim.se/scroll-effects/) animates lists while scrolling them
  • [Open Exchange rates](http://www.josscrowcroft.com/2012/projects/open-exchange-rates-relaunched-part-1/) is a JSON API for hourly updated exchange rates
  • [Transferring apps and data from one Android device to another](http://monogatari.doukut.su/2012/04/transferring-apps-and-data-from-one.html) explains just that
  • [I love the internet](http://blog.timoni.org/post/21261045187/i-love-the-internet) is something I say every day, too