Jay Robinson

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  • But an effect can become a cause, reinforcing the original cause and producing the same effect in an intensified form, and so on indefinitely. A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that…

  • Tracking nearly anything you do is alarming and humbling. The aggregates of our actions are lost on us: we can watch hundreds of hours of television and write it off as a small time commitment. How much is too much? It’s hard to make pretty charts without learning something and thinking about what they should…

  • Download Safari Extension: Maximize Flash Videos for YouTube & Vimeo

    Download Safari Extension: Maximize Flash Videos for YouTube & VimeoI made a stupid browser extension to maximize Flash videos on YouTube and Vimeo pages. It’s stupid because I tried for an hour or more to get it to only inject the stylesheet when you click the toolbar button, but it’s just too stupid to work.…

  • Safari Web Inspector versus WebKit Web Inspector (pictured above) The latest Safari 5.2 Update 3 (available to registered Safari developers) includes a Safari-specific Web Inspector enabled by default. You now have two web inspector’s to choose from: Safari’s, or WebKit’s. You can use the Develop menu to switch between the two. Overall, there’s more consistency…

  • Photoshop Tip: Disable Hyphenation in New Documents

    Webpage Photoshop comps look silly with paragraphs auto-hyphenated. This is almost never what a web designer wants. In order to turn off hyphenation for all new documents, proceed with the following steps: Open Photoshop. Close all open documents. Select the Paragraph panel. Uncheck “Hyphenate” checkbox. Result: All new documents have “Hyphenate” unchecked, solving all your…

  • Created this CSS3 animation for the Sencha Architect launch, but I didn’t end up using it. Made with Sencha Animator, natch.

  • I want to attain to a greater degree of proficiency all the time. My education is never completed, it’s wide open all the time. As long as you’re green, you continue to grow. But when you get to where you’re ripe with knowledge, then the next step is to become rotten. Napoleon Hill, In His…

  • New Sencha Architect Page

    This page used to look like this: Now it looks like this:

  • Sencha Architect 2 Launch Video Congratulations to the Sencha Architect team for a fantastic release. I had fun putting this video of you guys together.

  • Returned to my new favorite place today for some reading, writing, and life ’rithmatic.

  • However little the world needs the next lolcat, the message “You can play this game too” is a change from what we’re used to in the media landscape. The stupidest possible creative act is still a creative act. Once you accept the idea that we actually like making and sharing things, however dopey in content…

  • Just chillin’ at the office.

  • Braun clock by Filip Slováček on Dribbble. Click through to see the animated gif.

  • Check out this post I contributed to WebKitBits: -webkit-filter is the new hotness, and it’s coming to your browser sooner than you’d expect! This slide comes from a recent presentation given by Vincent Hardy of Adobe, showing off the rapid innovation in tweaking web graphics. Download the latest WebKit Nightly and take a look!

  • My dear old friend, John Porter, has begun to collect his thoughts digitally at wine for the dreamers: Bath Time.Being in constant contact with objects can remove a certain amount of the surreal nature inherent in all. Thankfully a step back reveals it once more, and nowhere is this fluttered with such whimsy than in…