• Automattic Acquires Texts.com I've never heard of Texts.com but there are other apps that do this. I remember Adium back in the day aggregated all your messaging accounts into one. With the disaster that is Twitter and the mass exodus of users to far-flung social networks, I guess you need something like this to stay up to date with your friends. Automattic has shown that they were good custodians of their acquisitions quite unlike Google.
• Texts Joins Automattic Matt Mullenweg also wrote on his blog about the acquisition.
• Rails is not dead
• This man likes FreeBSD One man's case for FreeBSD. I really need a free computer to try out FreeBSD, to see how I would like it.

Indieweb

• RSS Auto Discovery
• PESOS or POSSE
• The Verge - POSSE
• Indieweb Identity How would you go about branding the Indieweb protocols or services? Paul makes a few proposals.
• Indieweb I am really digging indieweb. It looks like something I would really enjoy and benefit from.

Web design

• Naming CSS Variables I love this site, it reminds me of Smashing Magazine.
• Why your Web Design Sucks

That's it for this week. See you next time.