July 2010
1 post
June 2010
2 posts
May 2010
2 posts
April 2010
5 posts
The Man From Hollywood →
The Man From Hollywood is a Kinetic Type experiment that makes use of Advanced CSS selectors and Webkit CSS properties*. The idea is based off of kinetic type videos that are usually created using After Effects, Flash, or other animation tools. Javascript is used, but minimally, really just to turn class names on and off. All of the animations are accomplished using CSS.
“We often hear of the “Apple tax” and have seen vendors copy Apple’s form factor...”
– Read Details, Details, Details. Why Apple’s MacBook Pro refresh matters more than you think.
March 2010
17 posts
WatchJason Fried on Why You Can’t Work at Work, where he talks about interruptions at the workplace.
I find 37signals is a bit “it’s our way or the highway” about most topics, but Mr. Fried is damn right about this one.
The library of the Gutenberg Museum →
A beautiful and interesting post on I Love Typography, about type specimens and blackletters.
Only catching up on RSS reading in two weeks, I didn’t know that ILT’s recent posts have custom designs. This one is quite nice.
“All too often, when faced with a decision about how to implement certain...”
– Matt Legend Gemmell writes about Engineer Thinking and he’s damn right.
February 2010
26 posts
“The Opera -o- CSS prefix is brought to you by a guy in a sombrero on a bicycle.”
– Drew McLellan
“If somehow French electronic duo Daft Punk traveled back in time, they could be...”
– Dancing Plague of 1518, in Wikipedia (via timoni)
“[Google Buzz] It’s built right into Gmail. […] The best part about...”
– Buzz, why are you so intrusive?
“Constant vigilance is the price you pay for an elegant application. This means...”
– The excellent Lukas Mathis on removing features.
“Nathan Bowers recently wrote that quality is fractal. That is to say quality...”
– Be sure to read the whole post. It’s worth your time.
“A laptop is a very powerful device even with average hardware specs, you can do...”
– Kyle Meyer right on spot about the iPad.
“The iPad isn’t the future of computing; it’s a replacement for computing. It’s...”
– Mike Monteiro on The Failure of Empathy