November 2008
23 posts
Meters, choices, and making meaning →
I’ve often thought about myself as a character in the Sims, being controlled by a higher gamer. How poorly he manages me! I’m allowed to sit playing games for hours after my fun meter is full and…
“I’ve often thought about myself as a character in the Sims, being controlled by...”
– Monadology (via ayjay)
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to...”
– Scott Adams, in The Dilbert Principle (via northtemple.)
“Abraham was asking God for just one child — just one — and God asked Abraham to...”
– Shiferaw, via Shaun Groves
Dean Edwards: Using Google To Serve Faster... →
Curious. And fascinating. Dean Edwards is apparently able to use Google Code to act as an assets server … essentially using them as a CDN. Could really speed up delivery of digital assets. Also,…
40+ Tutorials for Working with Wacom Tablets →
Some Wacom tutorials. No idea if they’re any good, but … good Lord … there are a lot of them.
Redeye VC: After the Techcrunch Bump →
A great write-up explaining how to perform a cohort analysis.
CalendarDateSelect Demo - A lightweight Ruby on... →
This looks like a great calendar plugin for Rails. Uses Prototype as a foundation.
Hacker News | Ask HN: Does the SaaS model really... →
Some really good thoughts. Consensus is that focusing on businesses is crucial, that a service that helps businesses make money is going to have a much easier time than a service that helps…
“When ideas are cool they seek out as many people as possible to execute on them.”
– Jackson Fish Market » A brief (and incomplete) history of a design meme.
Visual jQuery 1.2.6 →
A brilliant drill-down overview of the various things you can do in jQuery.
SitePoint » Why The data: URI Scheme Could Help... →
A really interesting optimization (think: Steve Souders), where you pass the data URI instead of passing the PNG/JPG/GIF address.
Typeface Selection
superamit:
mattmcinerney:
I have a few pet peeves. Sometimes I try to keep them to myself, but this is one that I feel needs to be aired. And maybe if I post it for everyone to see, I can prevent a future type crime. Even if I can just stop one person from using a terrible typeface, it’s worth a post. I’ll start with a quote:
We believe there are not that many good typefaces. If I want to be...
WDVL: JavaScript Tutorial for Programmers →
A great introductory tutorial for javascript. And … really? ten years old? Wild.
Pony - simple e-mail in Ruby apps →
This looks cool. A simple way to send e-mail. I’ll probably still have no idea what to do with it. Pony.mail(:to => ‘you@example.com’, :from => ‘me@example.com’, :subject => ‘hi’, :body => ‘Hello…
How to Organize Mental Clutter |... →
CSS SystemsView SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: bulletproof robustness) I’m very intrigued by slide 17, which suggests that CSS files should be laid out in three parts: by element (based on tag), by class (based on effect), and by ID (based on single-use blocks of code).
I’m a little curious about how class-based tags (the middle grouping) can be done well in a way...
“Saying that ‘my camcorder is 1080p and has larger hard drive and its got a...”
– Jonathan Kaplan, CEO of Pure Digital, makers of the Flip Video Camera
jQuery Examples →
An excellent page outlining the different ways that jQuery selects DOM elements on the page and then can manipulate them.
They vote by night | Culture Making →
A neat representation of the population centers of the us, and how those districts voted. A mashup of the US-at-night map and the red-blue-purple county-percentage map.
The Simple Dollar » How to Focus in a Heavily... →
A classic Trent post about how to stay on-task. Includes cutting off external stuff.
