I held a baby last night and this is what my #narrativeclip saw. instagram.com/p/pgfe-Eje74/
Getting high on programming kottke.org/14/06/getting-high-on…
Paul Ford’s trip inside Gawker’s CMS is….trippy. bigsaur.us/56
It’s not just sad and a shame, it’s morally wrong that so many sites are ugly, inaccessible, and unusable; that so many CEOs shop on price.
I love what the web can do for people; love the crafts of design, markup, writing, UX, code. It kills me that so much of our web sucks.
Drupal: 20% of the work is building the site, 80% of the work is making breadcrumbs work the way people want.
Happy Solstice. It’s all downhill from here.
Element Collages from @danielmall danielmall.com/articles/rif-elem… #RefreshDC
styletil.es/ are ideal for focusing on the elements of a site. #RefreshDC
Don’t be afraid of white space. #RefreshDC
“Finding the right typeface is honestly a lot of trial and error. What looks right. What feels right.” – @chuckborowicz #RefreshDC
Typeface is a chair lauraserra.org/A-Typeface-is-a-C… #RefreshDC
“Monochromatic does not mean grayscale” – @chuckborowicz #RefreshDC
“We have cognitive association with colors. It’s why dentists don’t advertise with the color red.” – @chuckborowicz #RefreshDC
Elements – things that make up a design; Principles – what we do with those elements #RefreshDC
“As designers we should give actionable feedback to each other.” – @chuckborowicz #refreshdc
About 78 days of scraping left…
Twitter’s GIF hack blog.embed.ly/post/89265229166/w…
Changed server-wide nginx conf file for my DreamHost VPS to limit number of conns per IP. Server rebooted. Changes then messed up. Wut?
Current status: xkcd.com/303/ except replace “compiling” with “scraping”