“You will not concede me philosophical poetry. Invert the order! Will you give me poetical philosophy, poetical science?” — Ada Lovelace in a letter to her mother
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Seeking out sources
I saw this set of Marvel characters morphing into their movie counterparts in my social media feed. If you use Tumblr long enough, you’ll recognize when something comes from a photoset (a grid of images in different configurations, which are captioned and/or animated) even after they get screencapped and land elsewhere, like Twitter, or Imgur, 9gag, or Pinterest. Thankfully, I could finally make out the credit watermark on the Imgur […]
#socialmediaprobz
Social media is not as easy or brainless as you think it is. Especially when you’ve spent a fair amount of time on it for things that you’re really passionate about. The more you use it, the more you want the workflow—the experience—to be better.
Underscores
WordPress feels like a distant planet these days. I’ve been concentrating so much on front end development that I can barely recall building with it even as recently as several months ago, and this included redesigning Stellify after four years. So as I went back to WP for a couple of projects, a blog for a web app and a company site without a blog, it was time to survey […]
Unheap
Unheap is a gorgeous compilation of jQuery plugins. I’m already grateful that such a listing exists (although bookmarking service Kippt is also lovely in case you want to do it yourself), but what I really appreciate are the colorful flat retro thumbnails, a custom design for every project serving not only as eye candy but a visual description of how the library would serve your needs. Unheap was assembled in […]
Moderniety
You gotta hand it to the IE team for turning their lemon of a reputation into lemonade. On the viral front there’s The Browser You Loved to Hate, currently tickling my nostalgia with a #childofthe90s campaign. They’ve also teamed up with Atari and ZeptoLab via Cut the Rope to put its newer browser versions on display. But despite a long-needed push to abandon version 6 for good, IE still has […]
“Web-site creation isn’t something you learn once and then check off on your to do list.”
From Jeff Veen in 1997, via Tim Brown‘s presentation on Universal Typography at the 2012 Ready to Inspire Conference. Yep.
Inbox zero
It’s a shame Google doesn’t have a more interesting address. Microsoft has @live.com while Apple has @me.com. Not sure why people opt for @outlook.com or @mac.com/@icloud.com when you can have those. Update (10/17/13): Added updates to Yahoo! Mail and iCloud. Their interfaces look slick too, but neither compare to the power of Gmail. I don’t really have a reason to give out those other addresses either. Ocean theme at dawn […]
Anything you say, post, tweet, reblog can and will be used against you
“I will spell it out for those who don’t understand: The recently signed Cybercrime Bill provision of libel will mean: 1) You can be taken to court for expressing a negative opinion. 2) You can be taken to court if someone is affected by your opinion. 3) You can be taken to court at a court which is farthest from where you live, because you as the defendant has to […]
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