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From our balcony right now.
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From our window right now.
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Discontent, by Jeffrey Zeldman
Jeffrey outlines many of the issues we face as web designers today. Much of Jeffrey’s work is focused around “content” and publishing — that is to say, sites which provide text passages for reading — and from that standpoint, i agree with everything he has to say, here. Really smart stuff. If you, like me, tend to be more focused on the application side of things than the publishing side, it may not apply as cleanly, but its still worth a read.
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The new Adobe CS6 branding
Facinating look at the branding and identiy work behind Adobe’s new Creative Suite.
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The Great Discontent: Dan Cederholm
Great interview with one of the people I respect most in this industry. Beautiful site, too.
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On Coda 2 and Diet Coda
Launching later this week are Panic’s new web development tools, Coda 2 and Diet Coda. I truly believe Panic makes the best software anywhere. Every Panic product is impeccably designed, works flawlessly, and is incredibly well-supported. They’re absolutely my favorite software shop, and they have been since I discovered Audion in 1999. That’s almost 15 years of making incredible stuff. Nothing to sneeze at.
You may know Coda, their Mac web development tool. It’s been around for a while. Much as I love Panic, I’ve never used Coda, because it never felt like it was aware of web developers who do something other than edit and deploy PHP files via FTP. I know over the years they’ve added syntax highlighting for other languages and they added SVN support, but it still always felt like it was designed for a previous generation of web developers, not those on the cutting edge today. For example, by the time they added SVN support, most modern developers weren’t using SVN anymore. I’ve always recognized it as being a good tool, but not one that I felt like I was the customer for.
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On The Verge, Episode 006: Damon Lindelof
Those of you who have been following me for a while will recall that I am and was a huge fan of the show Lost. I was mildly disappointed by its ending, but not to the degree many others seemed to be, and I’ve always felt like the fact that the ending wasn’t spectacular shouldn’t take away the six years of enjoyment that show brought to my life. Now, Damon Lindelof, one of the two main writers on the show and a ridiculously interesting guy to listen to talk, speaks to The Verge on their talk show and actually is somewhat specific about what really happened with the ending. Really good stuff. There’s also an extended version of the interview that I haven’t had a chance to watch yet.
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How To Choose The Right Face For A Beautiful Body
Nice piece from Smashing Magazine on typography in general, and specifically on choosing great text faces.
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Matt Langer on TED talk and intelect today
I love TED and have nothing bad to say about them, but this is a pretty damn good rant about why they,re stupid.
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10 QUESTIONS: Jeffrey Zeldman
Some good stuff in this interview with The Man, especially where it relates to Internet Explorer.
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Sunset from our balcony.
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My favorite feature of Sass
If you read my blog, or follow me on Twitter, you know that Sass is one of my favorite tools in my web stack. It makes writing CSS so much more efficient and painless, and I really can’t imagine living without it.
Sass has a lot of great features. Variables, mixins, nesting, color math, control directives…all incredibly useful. But there is one feature of Sass people don’t talk about much anymore — and frankly, a lot of people don’t even use — that I put above all the rest: the indented syntax.
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“Object Value Pricing,” by Dan Mall
“Here’s a system I use to help qualify my gut reaction. Ask yourself what object you would barter for this project.” Clever.
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Photos: If All of Earth’s Water was put into Single Sphere
Pretty facinating. Big as it is, i think its smaller than I might have expected. Also: that’s what she said.
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On top of Columbia.
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How we rolls.
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This is @katygarrison's iPhone case. This is not a joke.
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We are so mature.
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Space Needle orange paint progress: getting there.
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Why We Shouldn’t Make Separate Mobile Websites
Why does everyone assume a “seperate mobile website” means something stripped down, and something that doesnt give access to all the content?
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What's wrong with this picture?
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Current status…
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Facebook Introduces New Instagram Filters
Funny because it’s true.
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Responsive Design, Responsively Illustrated
Pretty cool (if not particularly useful).
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My amazing wife's handiwork.
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How Not To Sort By Average Rating
Sweet. Now someone implement this in Python. Oh, and as a Django ORM aggregation method.
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Lea Verou: In defense of reinventing wheels
I tend to agree with Lea, here. Assuming an existing library for something is right for your needs is just as asinine as assuming your own work will always be better. These things have to be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Also, another benefit of reinventing wheels: learning. You learn a helluva lot more when you write something yourself than when you grab an off-the-shelf library.
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Reading “Game of Thrones” in the Real World
Khoi talks about the sponteanous, happenstance encounters that occur when you read physical books, observing that the same generally doesn’t happen with ebooks. I bet those guys that used to carry a boombox on their shoulder had happenstance encournters, too.
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Ryan Funduk: Our Culture of Exclusion
Ryan has a lengthy rant about the culture in the tech community and how much of it seems to revolve around alcohol. Conferences have after-parties at bars, meetups are typically at bars, companies have beer in the fridge, etc. It’s a well-written piece with some thoughtful points, but for me it has two glaring and problematic issues. First, virtually all of the examples Ryan cites (tweets, etc) are clearly jokes. It’s obvious they were posted to get a laugh, not to brag about drinking, and certainly not to exclude anyone who doesn’t drink. Second, Ryan doesn’t seem to be aware that moderation, as a concept, exists. He constantly uses the word “binge,” suggesting that these conferences and such are encouraging drinking in excess. I’ve never seen that from any conference I’ve attended, and I’ve never seen people “wasted” at work, either. He turns one company’s “weekly happy hour” into “getting sloshed” with no evidence at all that’s what really happens, and certainly no evidence that the company in question encourages it. When conferences and companies start saying, “non-drinkers are not allowed,” then I’ll be outraged at the exclusion. But right now, Ryan is choosing to exclude himself because he doesn’t want to be in the presence of alcohol. That’s fine, and it’s his right, but it’s a very different thing than conferences and companies actively excluding non-drinkers.
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The Man Who Broke Atlantic City
If you enjoy gambling, and especially if you enjoy blackjack, you gotta read this story. Hell, even if you don’t, it’s an incredible tale.
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This does not seem accurate.
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Terrific photo of me, Nobu, Wilson Miner, Laura Brunow-Miner, Matt Brown, and Tiffani Jones-Brown, taken by Kirk Mastin of Mastin Studio (MastinStudio.com) at Tom and Jodie's wedding.
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One of the best photos of me in a long time, taken by Kirk Mastin of Mastin Studio (MastinStudio.com) at Tom and Jodie's wedding.
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Halftime power up. C'mon, dammit. #RCJH
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An Ajax-Include Pattern for Modular Content
Clever and useful pattern for brining in non-essential content to a page after its iniital load. i do a good bit of this on Lendle (although not with this particular technique). The intesting thing to me when this is discussed in regard to mobile, as it is here, is that the “loading…” aspect of web sites and apps is one of the thing that make people like native apps so much better. They always feel so much faster because once a view appears on screen, it’s all the—theres nothing more to load. Tradeoffs…
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Jeff Croft
I’m a digital product designer and developer in Seattle, WA. I currently work with nGen Works, and recently co-founded Lendle, a Kindle book sharing service.
Some of my clients include Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Copious, The New York Review of Books, The Lawrence Journal-World, and the University of Washington.
I’ve authored two books on web and interactive design and spoken at dozens of conferences around the world.
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