When I first caught wind of Svbtle by Dustin Curtis, I immediately wanted to sign up and try out its features but found it was extremely exclusive—an elite circle of the best minds in tech and design, in fact. Fast forward to today, I ran into this project that transforms any WordPress installation into a Svbtle-like interface. That’s on top of Obtvse, Essence of Blogging, and several more others. People […]
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I recently worked on a site redesign that features different blogs in its posts. The site also used plural forms for category names, which to me felt unfriendly in describing individual sites. For example: “Pet365, a pet blog” seems more human and appropriate than “Pet365, filed under Pet Blogs” If people are lobbying for more readable hyperlinks with URL sentences and relative/fuzzy date formats are commonplace these days, I believe […]
Here’s something I wrote a year ago: I panic when I hit Save Draft in WordPress & see the Publish button gets the same “pressed” visual effect. I switch tabs, then forget I’m just saving it, then what I see is the blue button getting pressed, then I panic The probable explanation for this is to disable the Publish button when you press Save Draft. But there was no indicator […]
TIME Magazine writes about fan fiction (with a timely Harry Potter slant, of course). I want so badly to quote the whole thing here (but it’s long, 5 “pages” long) so I’ll just grab the snippet being passed around on Tumblr: Fan fiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed […]
Allen Rabinovich of the YUI team says a front-end engineer has many hats. One must be an engineer, an anthroplogist, an artist, and a writer, and to a lesser extent, a paranoid and a futurist. Even if this isn’t up your alley, the talk is insightful and inspiring for conference speaking—he used one long slide of doodles (instant sketchnotes) revealed portion by portion. Transcript here. (via)
A vague and gnawing pang of anxiety centered around an IM window that has lulled. A sudden and irrational rage in response to reading an ‘@-reply’ on Twitter. The state of being ‘installed’ at a computer or laptop for an extended period of time without purpose, characterized by a blurry, formless anxiety undercut with something hard like desperation. The car collision of appetite and discomfort one feels simultaneously when using […]
As if the mainstream isn’t confused enough as it is, the W3C has gone ahead and unveiled a new logo for HTML5 and used it as the umbrella term for the latest technologies in front-end web development, much to all the standardistas’ protests. HTML5 is HTML but now, apparently, it now also encompasses CSS3, the new audio and video formats, and even more jargon like geolocation, web sockets, SVG, and […]
“…people in the newspaper industry saw the web as a newspaper. People in TV saw the web as TV, and people in book publishing saw it as a weird kind of potential book. But the web is not just some kind of magic all-absorbing meta-medium. It’s its own thing. And like other media it has a question that it answers better than any other. That question is: Why wasn’t I […]
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