Chris Coyier
Archive for November, 2009
Things I Found Interesting Around November 28th
Monday, November 30th, 2009
- How I Hire Programmers
Someone who’s smart but doesn’t get stuff done should be your friend, not your employee. You can talk your problems over with them while they procrastinate on their actual job. Someone who gets stuff done but isn’t smart is inefficient: non-smart people get stuff done by doing it the hard way and working with them is slow and frustrating. Someone you can’t work with, you can’t work with. - A Challenge to Kyle Steed by Chris Wallace
Kyle, you are a designer. I am a designer. You like to eat beef jerky. I like to eat filet mignon. You like to skip showers every other day. I like to be clean and use deodorant. You look like the unabomber. I look like Jack Bauer… I could go on. But I think you get the point. - All things Apple. Past, present and future.
- Cadence & Slang
is a book about interaction design.
Things I Found Interesting Around November 27th
Sunday, November 29th, 2009
- Dear Mandy
an open letter to Lord Mandelson - RegExr
Online Regular Expression Testing Tool - Node.js
… is genuinely exciting. (I hope to be smart enough someday to understand this stuff) - Kevin Smith talks about Twilight
There is a plan, and it's working.
Things I Found Interesting Around November 26th
Saturday, November 28th, 2009
- NaNoDrawMo 29
Ah yes, the old “I don’t want to draw the rest, so I’ll just put a table there” trick. - texts from last night
The girl next to me in class is taking notes on woman's suffrage with a girls gone wild pen. - ‘The Road’ – Review
what we've been given is no more than a reasonable facsimile, an honorable attempt at filming an unfilmable book. - Sucuri information security
Thankful
Friday, November 27th, 2009
Today is Thanksgiving. I try to be thankful every single day of my life. In fact, the last few months, when I lay down to sleep I literally lie there and think about all the things I am thankful about. I am not a religious man, but I suppose this is my version of prayer. Being thankful is a way to put things in perspective ultimately reduce stress for me. In my day to day work, I stress out a lot. I deal with clients asking for things that I think are crazy, customers complaining about this or that, blog comments that I’m shocked came from the fingers of another human being. But when I take some time to reflect, and stack all these things up against all the good things, all those negative stressful things seem smaller. These are the things I am most thankful for:
Things I Found Interesting Around November 25th
Thursday, November 26th, 2009
- Smashing Magazine Killed The Community
- It’s like twitter. Except we charge people to use it.
Pie charts - RCA student radically improves the UK plug
- Ollie Promo Shipment
Twitter bird now a little plush toy
Things I Found Interesting Around November 24th
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
- The website owners manual
New book by Paul Boag - Oprah To End Her Talk Show
"I hope the next big talk show host also talks about books and careers. I don't want to watch daytime TV and feel unproductive." - ExpanDrivel » Highway Gothic is the New Helvetica
- Letterplayground.com
- Transforms
Awesome test enviornment for CSS3 Transforms - New AOL Branding
To me, is ridiculous. - Andrew Zuckerman: Bird
- How Twilight Works
If you're male and you like Twilight, you're gay. I don't mean that in the derogatory sense, I mean it in the "you want to put your testicles against another man's testicles while gripping handfuls of chesthair" kind of way. - always with honor
Things I Found Interesting Around November 23rd
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
- We heart prints
I love prints. I keep forgetting about this site and then refinding it and have the urge to share it every time. - Typographic Chest Hair
- Zen Coding: A Speedy Way To Write HTML/CSS Code
I am going to consider learning how to use this. Seems worth the time investment. - Marc Johns — Original Artwork Available
Things I Found Interesting Around November 15th
Monday, November 23rd, 2009
Things I Found Interesting Around November 13th
Sunday, November 15th, 2009
- Ten most troubled states in the U.S.
In the last three years, I’ve lived in three of the states on this list.
Things I Found Interesting Around November 12th
Friday, November 13th, 2009
- YouTube – The Go Programming Language
Is this going to be a big deal? Maybe. - Type for you
Very nice free font. - IxEdit
- Learn Your Damn Homophones
- Modernizr
This is how I would deal with CSS3 stuff on a big major site. Like where you want to use multiple backgrounds but need a fallback better than nothing. - Recent tweets with 100 favs or more
The new Favrd. - SimpleBits / How I Might Deal with IE6
Old thing here, but has the good copy-and-pastable code for a stylesheet only for IE 7 and above (plus all non-IE browsers) - COPE
Create Once, Publish Everywhere - Premium WordPress Plugins
I have no problem with this. I think some people do. - There Was an Old Lady: $16.99 : Kids : Chronicle Books
Book from my childhood, redone totally awesomely.
Things I Found Interesting Around November 11th
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
- Guest Lists: Volcano Choir
This is a great way to find new music I think. Read an article of a band you already like talking about bands they like. - YouTube – The Dodos – Fables
- YouTube – Blitzen Trapper: Black River Killer
Loved this song for a long time, didn’t know it had a sweet video! - Mental Notes
- They’re listening
GOP responds quickly to discovered typos, twitter flurry - Ajaxy – JavaScript – ThemeForest
James Padolsey wrote this very sweet JavaScript component to build AJAX sites - The Twitter Follower Recipe
- Typekit
It’s out for real
Things I Found Interesting Around November 10th
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
- Xmarks
Foxmarks is now Xmarks, and syncs bookmarks across all browsers on all computers. Pretty cool. - The Story of the Tape
Beatles album, after they broke up, never released? Cool story. Still don’t like the Beatles. - Twitter fave Shit My Dad Says heads to TV
Wow. A Sitcom already. - The Art of Making Super-Fast Vector Illustrations
- jParse
jQuery XML Parse Plugin