Jay Robinson

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  • We see culture and selfhood as shaped by market forces, technology constraints, business decisions, and arbitrary software designs. No form of meaning stands apart from the technopoly and remains relevant; there is no evidence of meaning beyond those actions which can be turned into apps or pages and made to generate profit. In the democratic…

  • We blink into a sunset, search for our phone’s camera, and imagine how the photo will play on the screens where our avatar lives, screens belonging to other selves whom we know only as representations. Mills Baker, on leisure as “non-activity”

  • Ah, I dream of my native valley. I used to walk there singing, Will I ever sing again under those great trees? Ah, poor Hylas? Let me sail home, gently rocking on the oceans mighty breasts Oh, the powerful sea, the child of Dindyma! I dream of my native trees. They shield me from the…

  • esbueno: Kyle Steed created this beautiful lettering from one of my list of Thirty Five. Should probably get this tattooed to my forehead.

  • How to stop iTunes from opening every time your iPhone is connected

    How to stop iTunes from opening every time your iPhone is connectedThis was driving me crazy. I had the “Prevent devices from syncing automatically” checked in the preferences, yet every single time I docked or _un_docked my iPhone, iTunes would jump to the front of my screen. The answer is rather unintuitive: Go to iTunes…

  • Font or Typeface?

    Font or Typeface?I wasn’t completely clear on their usage, so I googled it, and this was the best result: the physical embodiment of a collection of letters, numbers, symbols, etc. (whether it’s a case of metal pieces or a computer file) is a font. When referring to the design of the collection (the way it…

  • Simurai: “We’re in an icon-sharpness limbo”

    Simurai: “We’re in an icon-sharpness limbo”Simurai explains why there is not one “silver bullet” image format when it comes to serving images for normal resolution and high-density displays: With the rise of Retina displays people are looking for resolution independent alternatives to PNG icons. Some fell in love with font-icons, some are shouting “SVG”. But…

  • Always Specify Image Dimensions to Avoid CSS Reflow/Repaints

    I took an hour the other day and dove into helpful documentation to avoid CSS Reflows and Repaint, but I came up pretty short; in modern browsers, most of these things don’t add to perceived page load in any significant way. Except one thing that always irks me: Always specify a width and height for…

  • If a text isn’t online and publicly pointable, then it doesn’t exist. Craig Mod, “A Pointable We” This is my ideal understanding of the web, and I loved reading Craig’s thoughts on it. And I believe content providers are starting to understand this, too. Over the next year we’ll start to see the smart guys…

  • Rich Boy, “Throw Some D’s”

  • From Ken Segall’s new book, Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple’s Success: Steve’s idea was to do a Willy Wonka with it. Just as Wonka did in the movie, Steve wanted to put a golden certificate representing the millionth iMac inside the box of one iMac, and publicize that fact. Whoever opened the lucky…

  • George Taylor McKnight: And to think how little time we spend here and how much we spend in front of a computer. I also like George’s new philosophy on photos: I don’t backup any photos I take on any hard drive anymore. Instagram and Tumblr are my backup. If its not good enough to post,…

  • Google HTML/CSS Style Guide

    Google HTML/CSS Style GuideTelling a chick you’re a front-end developer won’t get you laid, but it couldn’t hurt to try. You could always use the phrase “front-end engineer” to make yourself sound smarter. Anyway, HTML and CSS dorkery isn’t for everyone, but this collection of best practices from Google is right up my alley. This…

  • We have a crisis of leadership in America because our overwhelming power and wealth, earned under earlier generations of leaders, made us complacent, and for too long we have been training leaders who only know how to keep the routine going. Who can answer questions, but don’t know how to ask them. Who can fulfill…

  • Realising the Full Potential of the Web

    Realising the Full Potential of the WebThis Tim Berners-Lee piece will definitely be included as one of my personal canon articles, whenever I get around to making one of those.