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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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Hand-written receipts FTW
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Responsive questions
Jeremy Keith answers a bunch of great questions about responsive web design. I agree with almost every word of it. The only thing that bugs me is when he says people were “angry” that RWD doesnt solve mobile context issues. It bugs me because I can’t help feeling like he’s talking about me. “Angry” isnt the right word at all. I can honestly say I’ve never been “angry” about anything related to the web. This is my job, not my life. If I’m “angry” you’ll know it. I’ll probably never be “angry” about any topic I’d write about on this blog, or on Twitter. Rather, I simply raised a concern with the growing idea that using RWD for a website was a “magic bullet” for making a great mobile website. It’s not. It’s a useful tool, but not a be all and end all (largely because, again, it doesn’t address context issues).
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HaiLey. <3
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Me and my amazing daughter @reckless_abandonment. <3
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Angry Birds in Space…Needle.
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Content Folding
Chris Coyier has some tips on using the new CSS Regions functionality with responsive layouts.
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I, Dog, am twice the size of my owner.
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Stamen map tiles for OpenStreetMap
These are really stunning, and free to use in your OSM applications. I especially love the Toner one.
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CSS preprocessors and “view source”: is output readability important?
Earlier today, I stumbled across a podcast interview with one of my early web design heroes, Dan Cederholm. You may know Dan as the founder of Dribbble, but it’s worth noting that he’s been on the cutting edge of CSS and web design since the early 2000s — Dribbble is just the latest in a long line of manifestations of his talents.
Anyway, the entire interview is worth listening to, but I was particularly interested in their conversation about Sass (starts around 56:20). I hadn’t realized Dan was using Sass, but I was excited to hear his thoughts on it, as it seems to me a lot of the old guard of CSS gurus have not taken to CSS preprocessors the way the younger up-and-comers have. As I was listening, I was surprised to hear my name was mentioned in reference to a recent post I wrote called How I’m Implementing Responsive Web Design. Turns out, they’d discussed my techniques for RWD with Sass in a previous episode with Chris Coyier (starts around 13:30), so I ended up listening to that, as well (The Industry seems like a great show…definitely check it out).
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Responsive Web Design: Missing the Point
Nice piece by Brad Frost on adaptive design. Although it hits on several topics as well, it addresses my key issue with the trend that is “Responsive Web Design:” the dogmatism that Ethan Marcotte has put around it by insisting that a layout only qualifies as “Responsive Web Design” if it consists of fluid grids, fluid images, and media queries. The result of him shunning other techniques (multiple fixed grids, using JavaScript instead of media queries, etc.) is a community that now cares more about fitting into some arbitrary ideal (mostly to impress Ethan and each other), rather than the user experience. Adaptive layout and device-agnostic design is an incredibly important issue for users, and will continue to be, going forward. But “Responsive Web Design” in the sense of Ethan’s dogmatic prescription is overblown. There are many ways to achieve great multi-device user experiences. RWD is one of them, but by shunning all the others, we are doing our users a disservice.
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About HTML semantics and front-end architecture
Great piece by Nicolas Gallagher on smrt use of class names and other naming conventions in front-end develoment.
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Bubbles to celebrate a Mizzou loss at Sport.
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So heterosexual
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Sobriety!
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Frederic, CDT, EBJ, and Shans
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KJ Bafro
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GoTime farewell party. What the fuck is GoTime?
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One of the great photo bombs I've ever seen. Discovered while going through some older photos on my phone.
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My hair is ridic.
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Git Submodules: Adding, Using, Removing, Updating :: Chris Jean
Useful tutorial on using git submodules.
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QR codes: worst idea in the history of mankind?
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Fraser Speirs: ‘We Need to Talk About Android’
Grreat piece answering the question “what’s wrong with Android.” i have friends who love their Android devices, but I think Speirs hits the nail on the head when he notes that Android devices are probably fine as long as you’re not thinking beyond the length of your contract. With iOS, you’re buying into a platform, which is more of a long-term decision. With Android, you’re buying a device with a two-year lifespan. The distinction may not matter to you, but it does matter to a lot of folks in a lot of industries (including education, where Speirs is).
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Prix Fixe
Really nice overview of the whole CSS venor prefix kerfluffle by Jeremy Keith. My opinion, predicatably, is that i dont really care. I’m just here to make shit, not argue about academic details like this. Long as I can get my box shadows and transitions and transforms and gradients, i really don’t care what, exactly, the code looks like (Sass, of course, helps me not care).
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Emerald City Jazz Orchestra
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Measuring the Django Community: The Django community in 2012
Jacob writes about the size of the Django community in 2012. It’s pretty amazing how the little framework built in Lawrence, KS by some of the best friends and co-workers I’ve ever had has exploded in the past few years. I remember vividly being in that basement in Lawrence when Google announced App Engine and we all sat, dumbfounded and beaming with pride that it was based on Django. Later, we all were so stoked when Pownce launched on Django, because we felt like there was finally a big “app” (versus “site”) that ran on Django. Today, as Jacob writes, “the high-profile uses of Django read like a Who’s Who of the Internet. Check this list out: AMD, Canonical, Discovery, Disqus, HP, IBM, Instagram, Intel, Lexis-Nexis, the Library of Congress, Mozilla, NASA, National Geographic, the New York Times, Orbitz, PBS, Pinterest, Rdio, VMWare, Walt Disney, and the Washington Post. Not bad for a few nerds hacking in a basement in Lawrence, Kansas, eh?” Not bad at all. Those days in the basement were special, indeed.
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Reflection.app: AirPlay Mirroring to your Mac
I’m not sure I need it,but it feels pretty damn cool nonetheless. I currently use a product called AirServer to send AirPlay audio and video to my Mac, but this actually mirrors the entire display of your iOS device onto your Mac.
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Before she was Gaga: The unseen photos
A never-before-seen series of photos from a photoshoot of Lady Gaga when she was simply Stefani Germanotta.
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Most Web Design Agencies Suck
If there were ever a blog post that suffered terribly by not being written by a journalist who knows a thing or two about proper sourcing, this is it. If everything Andy has to say is true, its a shame. But the constant stream of unnamed sources really makes you wonder — especially when you add in the fact that Andy runs an agency himself and has plenty to gain by saying all the others suck.
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Scaling with EM units
Great concept that willwork neatly with some designs (and not others).
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How I’m implementing Responsive Web Design
Responsive Web Design is hard. Really hard, actually. But I’ve recently been exploring ways to make it fit more neatly into my development workflow, and I thought it’d be worth sharing what I’ve learned. I don’t have all the answers, but I am finally to a point where Responsive feels worth the extra effort — and for me, that’s saying something.
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Jeff Croft
I’m a digital product designer and developer in Seattle, WA. I currently work with Simply Measured, and recently co-founded Lendle, a Kindle book sharing service.
Some of my past clients include Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Copious, The New York Review of Books, Django, 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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