Colour testing tools: Colour Brewer for generating map colour schemes (warning: flash) and Colour Oracle for seeing your screen as it would be seen by someone with colour blindness
Colour testing tools: Colour Brewer for generating map colour schemes (warning: flash) and Colour Oracle for seeing your screen as it would be seen by someone with colour blindness
#listening to Rise Of The Indie Web session /by Tantek Çelik #bookmark #audio #podcast
How to make nice Mediawiki clean URLs — this is the cleanest, simplest way to do this I have found so far #bookmark #mediawiki
Nice visualisation of XKCD Time: xkcd.aubronwood.com #bookmark #xkcd
.Josh Emerson’s stateless icon/progress loader on kylebean.co.uk is one of the most beautiful bits of design I’ve seen in a long time. Heads up: the back button does not work in Safari 5.1
The more interwoven the relationship between the appearance and the manufacturing process is, the more honest the material.
Too right. I love the way @kevingoldman advocates the use of movement, state and microcopy for emotive design on the web.
Offered without comment: Old People Wearing Vegetation #bookmark #photography #surrealism
#watching/#listening to Aral Balkan’s “The High Cost of Free” (slides and audio) #indieweb #ownyourcontent #bookmark
This article makes me even more excited about going to #iceland /via Robin Andrews
Margin Marks, a #microformats UI idea. #bookmark
That excellent post of Tantek Çelik’s, like all well–hyperlinked documents, lead me to a whole raft of great #indieweb resources I hadn’t come across before:
(In other news: I need to make a “dump tabs into new note dialog” browser #extension)
Cleaning the Room by ftrain is one of the most visceral things I have ever read #bookmark
“I am not a number, I am my domain name”
— Tantek Çelik eloquently summarises #indieweb thinking in On Silos vs an Open Social Web #bookmark
Really loving bastianallgeier’s thoughts on PHP as a templating language — very very similar to my own approach #php #dev #bookmark
Currently #watching: Will Wright and Brian Eno on Generative Systems:
Buying a Hurdy Gurdy — Simon Wascher’s personal criteria for #gurdy buying. #bookmark #music
appicontemplate.com is such a great tool for #ios #icon #design. #bookmark
php2python.com is super useful for learning all the little things which always need doing when moving from #php to #python, e.g. splitting a string using another string, or pretty-printing a dict.
Twitter’s typeahead.js looks like a great base for #indieweb #autosuggest — it certainly has better UX than my current technique #bookmark #js