Chris Coyier
Archive for January, 2010
Things I Found Interesting Around January 30th
Sunday, January 31st, 2010
- The Virtual Piano
I had a lot of fun playing with chords - Professional WordPress
New WordPress book on the streets - David Lynch on Product Placement
"Bullshit. Total fucking bullshit."
Things I Found Interesting Around January 29th
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
- Recommended Reading Archive
I just updated my bookshelf on CSS-Tricks too, but I think most of the books on mine are probably ones that most people in web design have already heard of (doesn’t make then any less good). Jason’s bookshelf is more extensive and niche. - Alex Payne — On the iPad
The thing that bothers me most about the iPad is this: if I had an iPad rather than a real computer as a kid, I’d never be a programmer today. - Tim Bray on iPad
For creative people, this device is nothing. - failin.gs
don’t worry. nobody’s perfect.
Winter is the best
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
Dry, crisp air. The color palette of the world unified by a blanket of white. Getting to wear comfortable clothes all layered up – and you don’t sweat unless you explicitly try to. Everything seems quieter and more relaxed.
Really.
Things I Found Interesting Around January 28th
Friday, January 29th, 2010
- Lost In Five Minutes
Funniest recap I’ve seen yet… "She gives me a case of the boners like no one else on LOST" - Basic Photography Lighting Setups Tutorial Video
My boss just bought a whole big pack of lighting equipment. This is a killer video (with sample photos) of different lighting setups for different effects - iPhone Controlled Quadrocopter
You can’t buy it yet but this is just the kind of nerdy that appeals to me. Reminds me of my uncles having stuff like this as a kid. - Sympathy for the Devil
Jack Knack’s well written thoughts on the Flash Player - Boulder Acoustic Society
Recording onto a Wax Cylinder - Unhappy Hipsters
I thought this would be another funny hipster blog, and it kinda is, but it’s mostly full of kick ass interior design and architecture.
Things I Found Interesting Around January 27th
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
- Don’t just roll the dice
a usefully short guide to software product pricing - 5 by 5
Consolidated home for podcasts which either feature or have something to do with Dan Benjamin - Free Publicity: Who do we help?
Though Apple is a reasonably progressive company, they explicitly don't give a shit about poor people. (Let's pretend I found a nicer way to say that.) - Pure CSS Coke Can
Hey that is clever. Fixed background positioning with a background-clip around it.
Something On The Clipboard
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
Ever ⌘-C something and then get distracted? Then there is this nagging feeling in the back of your head. It’s similar to when you have a drink set down somewhere you know you didn’t finish. What should we call that feeling, when you have something on your clipboard you know you need to paste before losing it?
pre-regret
clipamnesia
tip of the clip
Command V Anxiety
AAAARGGHHH NOT AGAIN!
paste haste
And yes… there are some software programs that attempt to solve this buy keeping a copy history for you. I tried CopyPastePro, but didn’t like it. It seemed to interfere with actually copying things sometimes, which is unacceptable.
Things I Found Interesting Around January 26th
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
- app.itize.us
iPhone App Blog – there are a lot of these but mostly they suck. Nice to have app blogs to keep us informed of non-shitty Apps that surface in that quagmire that is the App Store. - LOST Posters
LOST LOST LOST, week from yesterday. - Baseball Rule Change Timeline
Baseball is one old game. - Merlin Interviews Seth
- The future of designed content
True on all accounts. - Apple product photos
Where to find high quality shots - HTML5 Video Player
- Dynamic Dummy Image Generator
- War On Warcraft
MMORPG’s to be coming out next year - Top 5 slab serifs
- paperedtogether letterpress
Things I Found Interesting Around January 25th
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
- Blues Maker
Make your own blues song - 99 Years and 1 Dark Day
I like old time music, less so bluegrass. But once in a while I get the urge to listen to some hardcore traditional bluegrass. The Punch Brothers (not normally this genre) really rock some out in this video. - HDR Photography
I like HDR when it’s not overly ridiculous and distracting. Some of this stuff crosses that line but not all of it. I’d like to learn more about it. - Browser Stats
Hey, that looks kinda like a Firefox logo! - Nicholas Felton
Each day in 2009, I asked every person with whom I had a meaningful encounter to submit a record of this meeting through an online survey. These reports form the heart of the 2009 Annual Report. From parents to old friends, to people I met for the first time, to my dentist… any time I felt that someone had discerned enough of my personality and activities, they were given a card with a URL and unique number to record their experience. - 1000 Free "Farm-Fresh Web Icons"
They are like FamFam icons, only bigger. - The Dark Side of HTML 5 Video
The fact that YouTube and Vimeo are trumpeting their new HTML 5 video support as an open standards victory is misleading to say the least. - VVVVVV
- IMAX
I needed to find an IMAX, so I went to IMAX.com. Indeed they have a website and it’s pretty nice and easy to find IMAXes near you.
Things I Found Interesting Around January 22nd
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
- Things That Are Doing It
Huh huh, penises and vaginas. - Simple "Long Polling" example code
- Twitter Avatars
Shape of twitter bird, re-imagined into a different critter - Narwhal. Co.
Cool stuff made out of old ties - 300&65 Ampersands
- Internet Online Website!
- The Zoomable Map
on paper! - Bill Gates Foundation Annual Letter
I’m a fan of Bill Gates “The Man”, just not so much Bill Gates “The Company” - Party in the U.S.A (Miley Cyrus Cover)
- Personas for Firefox
Surprise! 99% are super awful.
Things I Found Interesting Around January 21st
Friday, January 22nd, 2010
- DesignersMusic
- ‘Tamale Guy’
We saw him out and about the other night. Kind of a cool guy with an interesting story - BookBook
a unique new leather MacBook case that looks just like a vintage book - Best RickRoll Ever
- YouTube + HTML5
No Firefox support yet - Her Morning Elegance / Oren Lavie
Things I Found Interesting Around January 20th
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
- ColorBox
Apparently this is becoming the gold-standard jQuery lightbox. Noted. - Lost Predictions
Get yourself an account and register your predictions - BumpTop Mac
Does some crazy shit to your desktop. For some reason this kinda scares me. Like back in the OS 9 days when you had too many weird things running and it caused weird conflicts and slowness. Not saying this does this, it just feels like one of those things. - Graves Mountain Bluegrass Festival
The lineup gets worse every year, but I still go. This will be my 6th or 7th year. - The importance of teaching your clients and being the boss
Excellent take on how we should behave as designers - Stop Blogging
Steve’s argument is that blogs get old quick and then the information there becomes misinformation. I think if that happens, it’s your responsibility to go update it, that’s all. Or even better, if it’s code, provide a live example so people can see if it still works or not in two seconds.