Category: Design
10 Years
So for the tenth anniversary, the Zen Garden is open for business once more. I’ve thrown the codebase on Github, given the dusty copy a refresh, started the conversion of the site to HTML5, and brought all of the existing designs kicking and screaming into the modern age. The work isn’t done yet, but it’s […]
Line Clampin’ | CSS-Tricks
You want X lines of text. Anything after that, gracefully cut off. That’s “line clamping” and it is a perfectly legit desire. When you can count on text being a certain number of lines, you can create stronger and more reliable grids from the elements that contain that text, as well as achieve some symmetric […]
Hex Color Tool
I needed a tool that either added white or black to a hex color. Launching Photoshop just to drag a color picker around wasn’t cutting it. I looked around for a web app that would do this but unfortunately most good programmers are terrible designers. I built HexColorTool to fill the gap. It’s responsive too! […]
Users’ Pagination Preferences and ‘View All’
When providing a choice of display options, the computer should almost always respect the user’s stated preference and employ it as the default the next time around. I am amazed at how many sites and applications don’t do this and instead force users to repeat their choices again and again. In short do pagination but […]
Frankie Roberto – Responsive Text
In agreement, nifty idea, but defiantly unsure of the practical application.
Tinycon – Favicon Alerts
Pretty sure I could count the number of times I actually looked at a favicon alert on one hand, that being said nice work.
whatwg – Requests for new elements for comments
Want to do comments on your new spiffy HTML5 site, use an article element inside your main article element.
inessential.com – Fantastical and language detection
That is practically the definition of great software, causing your users delight in the everyday workings.
O’Reilly Radar – The President’s challenge
The idea that we’ll be able to go back in time and make it harder for people to get digital information/media/anything is just wrong.
Subtraction.com – Subscribing to The New York Times
Media companies respect their customers or maybe not.