Jay Robinson

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  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Quick note on why you should always use Progressive JPEGs if larger than 10KB

    Lately I’ve been doing a ton of reading on decreasing website load time, image optimization techniques, responsive loading for different devices, and every detail I can find in between. One quick takeaway is that I will always tick the “progressive” checkbox in Photoshop’s Save for Web dialog from now on when saving JPEGs larger than…

  • Back to the Woods

    Nearly four years ago when I began this tumblelog I posted this quote by Columbia Professor of Music Aaron Brown, “Country music is born when the country becomes a nostalgic idea,” and it stuck with me. Partly because I have a deep appreciation for the simple songwriting of country music. Partly because when I post…

  • Monthly Playlists for 2012

    Last year I made monthly playlists of songs in heavy rotation. Really enjoyable to revisit at year’s end. Instant time warp. — Frank Chimero (@fchimero) January 5, 2012 Really excited to do this in 2012. (Also, embedded tweets look pretty legit on Tumblr.)

  • Resizing windows in Mac OS X Lion

    Today I discovered that you can resize windows in Mac OS X Lion with the aid of the Option and Shift key, a technique usually reserved for image editing software. Hold down the Option key while resizing the edge of a window to move the opposite edge the same distance. Hold down the Shift key…

  • How to Link to Stuff

    A demo: Check out this cool new thing here. Check out this cool new thing.

  • My Week with Google Android Nexus S

    I’ve been using a Google Nexus S running Android OS 2.3 as my phone for the past week and I like it. It makes for a very decent smartphone. Frequent needs can be met quickly with a minimum of amount of fuss. (Accomplishing the same task on iOS, though pretty, is not as easy nor…

  • ASCII Art of Heidi Klum AKA “Internet Art”

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  • You guys know you can paste URLs directly into the Safari Downloads window right?

    Okay, just checking. UPDATE: As of Mac OS X Lion 10.7, Safari 5.1 no longer supports this behavior. Sorry, Charlie. UPDATE: Not sure if I just missed this before, but you can do this in 10.7+ as long as you first focus the Downloads “window”.

  • Some Special CSS for Twitter

    table.columns div#side div#recommended_users { display: none !important; } Make a stylesheet with this rule, go to Safari Preferences > Advanced > Add to Style sheet.

  • The Following Songs May Or May Not Be About Making Love to a Chicken

    Hey Chicken – Loose Fur Chicken Payback – The Bees My Little Chicken – Adam Sandler

  • I love that *this* works.

    Peter Baker: “Shiiit” comes out exactly as it should. (On a Mac, Control+click the word > Speech > Start Speaking) Also, try “Mac OS X”. It’ll blow your mind.

  • FaceTime Me.

  • “Helvetica Neue”, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif

    What’s your font-stack? UPDATE: Very happy that this works: font: bold 24px/1 inherit; … just not in IE6/7.