Jay Robinson

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  • Step 1: Helvetica. Step 2: ? Step 3: Profit! Chris Wanstrath

  • Technologies like Safari Reader sound a salutary warning to media companies and advertisers. From now on, we must love our readers or die. The Guardian, via Nik Fletcher.

  • If you’re creative and technical, you’re unstoppable. Robert Rodriguez  (via Ext JS)

  • Apple’s and RIM’s game is selling the integrated whole — their own devices, running their own software. Google is playing Microsoft’s game — licensing a platform to many device makers. John Gruber, DaringFireball.net

  • Everything is unminified in Texas. @TXJS Headed to Austin, Texas for the weekend with @DavidKaneda and @EdSpencer.

  • Standards aren’t add-ons to the web. They are the web. Apple’s new HTML5 page.

  • Don’t worry about UX being marginalized. It’s just a term. It will be the people who make false promises and don’t do actual UX work who will become marginalized. The excellent (and beautiful) 52 Weeks of UX tumblelog. (Via Ext JS.)

  • The next person to call any CSS effects sexy should really have some sex to see the difference. Christian Heilmann

  • I can’t even eat. The food keeps touching. I like military plates, I’m a military man, I want a military meal. I want my string beans to be quarantined! I like a little fortress around my mashed potatoes so the meatloaf doesn’t invade my mashed potatoes and cause mixing in my plate! I HATE IT…

  • Ext JS allowed us to develop a rich, sophisticated interface in less time and with a smaller development team than would have been needed with other JavaScript UI frameworks. Jeff Nadler, Director of Product Development at Attensa, quoted in our latest Ext JS Spotlight article. (via Ext JS ttumblelog)

  • I love reading #EEE Verdana at 1.8 ems of line-height set against #4A525A.

  • I’m not saying you want an iPad or need one (or any of the upcoming tablets) — I don’t get commission. I’m just saying, what’s the big deal? It’s a computer and television and radio and newspaper and book and magazine and game console and Internet the size of a piece of paper and the…

  • One of the more attractive traits I can assign to a technology is how well it can support all the different tasks I might want to give it. Whether I need to hack up a prototype quickly, sprinkle in some Ajax, or build a brand-new custom framework, Ext has always pulled through nicely. Brice Mason,…

  • I propose a new language, Suggestive-C. All keywords are inuendo. Matt Comi

  • I’m convinced it would be huge, even with the dumbest domain. Look at chatroulette, who would have thought people could spell roulette? And yet here we are, sitting with our dicks in hand as living, throbbing proof. Peter Vidani on the importance of a good domain name. (via Jacob Bijani)