July 2010
4 posts
June 2010
5 posts
WatchI’m loving The Defamation of Strickland Banks, a concept album by English artist Plan B. The music is fresh, the lyrics are sharp, and the story itself (which charts the rise and fall of a fictional soul singer wrongly convicted of a crime) is pretty entertaining albeit clichéd. The music videos for the album are fantastic as well.
Embracing HTML5/CSS3 with Modernizr
Modernizr is a killer JS library by Paul Irish and Faruk Ates that uses feature detection to determine what next-generation web technologies are available to your visitors’ browsers. After running its tests, Modernizer stores results in both the markup (as classes on <html> like .borderradius and .no-csstransforms), and in a JavaScript object. These results allow you to write...
May 2010
11 posts
Carolina by Lady Danville
“Design is not about innovation. Design is about communication. Innovation in...”
– Jason Santa Maria | Quotes on Design (via owltastic)
Champion by Kristen Wiig (MacGruber Soundtrack)
WatchGravité by Renaud Hallée. Falling objects timed to create rhythm.
April 2010
6 posts
Isobar/Molecular Front-end Development... →
After being scooped up by the Google Chrome team, Isobar/Molecular developer and jQuery team member Paul Irish publishes three years worth of front-end development recommendations, guidelines and goodness.
Ever since I switched to Mac in 2002, Transmit has held strong as my favorite Mac application. An FTP client might seem an odd choice given the amount of eye-candy on OSX, but for anyone who’s used Transmit it’s an obvious one—terrific UI, great workflow, and like Textmate 1.0 I didn’t care if they ever released another version. Well, they did, and it’s fantastic....
WatchPlaying around with CSS3 transforms for my photography portfolio site.
“Never regret anything because at one point it was exactly what you wanted”
– Rey Maualgua /via Mike
March 2010
15 posts
Dropbox/Git workflow
For a while I’ve been storing personal web projects in a Dropbox folder. This keeps files synced between my various computers and I just need to place a symlink in /Library/WebServer/Documents to view the site on OSX’s built-in web server. I like this setup short of two things (1) Dropbox’s version control is a bit simplistic and (2) deployment is inconvenient and hard to track....
H&FJ: Four Ways to Mix Fonts →
Doesn’t get much better than H&FJ’s specimen work.
I’m Not Calling You a Liar by Florence + The...
Beef Stroganoff
To me, it doesn’t get much better than beef stroganoff. It’s a dish I’ve tried to perfect for as long as I’ve cooked, and while certainly a little indulgent it’s one of my favorite comfort foods. My recipe has evolved a lot over the years, but with a triumphant “wow—this is the one” from my wife I think I’m finally there.
1lb of tender beef...
Above is a graph that I’m both extremely proud and a little ashamed of—my weight over the past two years. This past week I finally hit my weight and body fat goals, so I thought I’d take a second to reflect.
Near the beginning of grad school I decided that I was tired of being scrawny. An obsession with being rail-thin left me at 175lbs (which for my frame is pretty gaunt), and...
February 2010
17 posts
Modularizing jQuery's $(document).ready()
While domready-type events are a welcome addition to modern JS programming, many people abuse them by dumping all of their code in there. This keeps the script overhead of your pages high when often pages only need certain functionality. There are plenty of approaches to modularizing you initialization code, but a simple approach built off of <body> ids is my go-to method.
The first step...
I read through Tom Colicchio’s Thinking Like a Chef this week, and the one thing that really stuck out to me is his aversion to high heat cooking. For a lot of people (myself included) the zenith of protein preparation is a ripping-hot cast iron skillet and a ride in the oven to finish. This high heat cooking imparts a great crust on the meat but at what cost? Colicchio is a firm believer...
