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  • Design Tip: Never Use Black by Ian Storm Taylor

    Design Tip: Never Use Black by Ian Storm TaylorThis was probably the best design tip I learned in 2012. If you haven’t read this yet, give it a read.

  • Learning to Love Humans: Emotional Interface Design

    Learning to Love Humans: Emotional Interface DesignIt’s not often you can get very much out of a solitary deck of slides. Much of the magic is meant to be delivered by the (hopefully engaging) speaker. However, Aaron Walter’s slide deck, Learning to Love Humans: Emotional Interface Design, was so good it inspired me to buy…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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.…

  • Needed in Photoshop: proportional leading/line height as in CSS

    Needed in Photoshop: proportional leading/line height as in CSSIt’s always bothered me that I cannot effortlessly create proportional line height in Photoshop. The leading widget in the Character panel should use a multiplier of the font size—as in InDesign or CSS. For example, I could set my text to 24px and the leading to a…

  • Filter iPad/iPhone Screenshots out of your iPhoto

    Filter iPad/iPhone Screenshots out of your iPhotoThis handy tip will help you cull your iPhoto library of those hundreds screenshots you take when you’re obsessively working on UI. Create smart albums with the following criteria: For iPad, match all of the following conditions: Aperture is Unknown ISO is Unknown Filename starts with IMG_ Filename contains…

  • How Ya Livin Biggie Smalls?

    How Ya Livin Biggie Smalls?Justin Ouellette: Great collection of remembrances from those who knew him, with beautiful photography by Ian Baguskas.

  • Replacing the -9999px Hack (New Image Replacement)

    Replacing the -9999px Hack (New Image Replacement)Mike McCarron reblogs Zeldman: .hide-text { text-indent: 100%; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; } I first wrote about this technique in 2009, and had been using it at least a year before that. Because I realized the web should always be future friendly. If you find the better way, start…

  • Murk Avenue: I Found Ice Cube’s “Good Day”

    Murk Avenue: I Found Ice Cube’s “Good Day”As in, “Today was a…” Some of the best pop-culture investagatory journalism ever via Murk Avenue.

  • Music That Makes You Dumb by Virgil Griffith

    Music That Makes You Dumb by Virgil GriffithCaltech student Virgil Griffith correlated musical interests with SAT scores. The method is highly unscientific, but the grouped by genre graphic makes the most sense. People who list Outkast in their favorite music on Facebook tend to score higher than those who list Lil Wayne.

  • The school of Jay-Z studies

    The school of Jay-Z studies Jay-Z doesn’t need to be Homer. Or Shakespeare. Or Mark Twain, Beethoven or Wagner. He’s Jay-Z: arguably, the most important figure to come out of the biggest cultural movement of the past 30 years. The merits of the case – for serious intellectual course work focused on the man and…