meaning
What does the phrase "for the rest of us" mean? I am coming across this one a lot recently. I googled to find its meaning, but with no luck.
For example, from Startups for the Rest of Us
Welcome to Startups for the Rest of Us, the podcast that helps developers be awesome at launching software products. Whether you’ve built your first product or are just thinking about it.
Also "The iPad Review For The Rest of Us" and "Functional Programming For The Rest of Us"
The New Oxford American has this:
rest one's case conclude one's presentation of evidence and arguments in a lawsuit.
• humorous said to show that one believes one has presented sufficient evidence for one's views.
It predates Perry Mason by a bit. My New Shorter Oxford English dates the following definition of rest from the mid-1800s:
rest v.
c. Voluntarily conclude presenting evidence in a law case. US.
But I found use of rest [one's] case as early as 1744 (check) from a British trial published in The Gentleman's Magazine Vol. XIV:
Dictionaries sometimes give a specific definition for rest easy (to relax and stop feeling worried) because both it and the virtually identical breathe easy aren't exactly being used literally. You probably weren't really having difficult breathing before something relaxed you and allowed you to "breathe easy".
But they won't be likely to define rest/breathe easily because that's normally only used in an absolutely literal sense. If you have trouble with your sinuses, you might take a decongestant to help you breathe easily.
One can thus understand easy in such contexts as meaning at your ease, in a relaxed manner (cf take it easy), as opposed to the more literal easily = without undue difficulty.
That distinction isn't absolute though. OP's citation is an instance of rest easily being used figuratively, and people also sometimes use rest/breathe easy in the literal sense.
Best Answer
For the rest of us in the context of the above web pages you have linked to indicates that the author has found other resources that explain what they are explaining, but thinks that they are too technical and so are difficult to understand.
You could replace for the rest of us with the idioms
This would indicate that the content of the articles was aimed at people who do not (at the moment) have a deep understanding of the subject at hand, and so won't be familiar with the technical jargon associated with it. The article may in fact introduce some of the more technical terms and thus be a gateway for the reader to less accessible, but perhaps more informative, articles.