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I could listen to Vint Cerf all day.
I think that it’s perfectly reasonable to have packets raining down from satellites, IP packets just literally raining down from satellites and being picked up by hundreds, if not millions, of receivers at the same time.
The trailer for a documentary on flutemaker Patrick Olwell. The film should be done later this year.
Kids say the mindblowingest things.
Aegir’s portfolio is a thing of a beauty on every screen size.
Aegir is doing some very smart image enhancement in his (responsive) portfolio. Here’s the explanation.
A nice timeline visualisation of recent history.
I’ve written a piece for issue three of The Manual. Despite that, it’s well worth getting your hands on a copy.
Now there’s a communal device testing lab in Malmö, Sweden too.
It’s not enough to have the same Photoshopped image from Back To The Future trotted out every. single. year. …now you can pass this meme around every minute of every day of every month of every year. Thanks a lot, Seb.
A beautiful short film about The Long Now Foundation’s Rosetta Project.
This is so lovely! The story of Jessica and Russ’s romance, illustrated by fifteen of their friends.
A grab-bag of public updates on Facebook.
This is possibly the most horrifying piece of JavaScript ever written. The license is good too.
Jessica’s doodles are quite lovely.
Kyle’s Matryoshka phones are as cool as they are cute.
This resonates deeply with me. It is worth your heartbeats.
I didn’t count how many heartbeats it took to read this, but it was worth every single one.
Cameron’s travelling to Ethopia to help with Charity Water, thanks to the generosity of the users of Authentic Jobs.
I love Tim Bray’s idea for naming the response code for censored content on the internet in honour of Ray Bradbury.
It’s kinda nuts that in the space of just a few months, Code Club has gone from being an idea by Clare and Linda into something with an all-star promo video.
It’s really good to see more providers of icon font sets. These look very nicely designed indeed.
Trent shares his ideas on handling line lengths in fluid, responsive layouts.
Luke and Jason have put together some demos of various “off-canvas” navigation patterns for responsive designs.
This beautiful piece of writing from Steph is making me hungry.
This is sooo nifty: Chloe’s obsessive Summer music visualisation is a lesson in responsive design and progressive enhancement. It’s also pretty fascinating.
A nifty little Mac app from Tom: it changes your desktop wallpaper to a satellite view of your current location.
Alas, it requires Lion, an operating system I’ve been trying to avoid installing.
This is excellent! Scott, Wilto, and the gang at Filament Group have released the tools they use to help them craft performant responsive sites. Lots of excellent resources for conditional loading here.
A spot-on analysis by Khoi of the changing perception of the value in product design, as exemplified by Apple.
This is a well-reasoned, thoughtful article on avoiding class names in CSS …but I don’t agree with it. That said, perhaps there’s a reasonable middle ground to be found between this extreme stance and the opposite (but in some ways just as extreme) stance of OOCSS.
Wilto does an excellent job of summarising the current state of responsive images, highlighting Florian Rivoal’s compromise proposal that combines the best of the picture element with the best of srcset.
Some good practical advice on improving performance. This should all be familiar to you, but it’s always worth repeating.
Some smart thinking from Harry Roberts on standardising the direction of your margins in CSS i.e. all top-margin or all bottom-margin declarations.
Google’s datadump makes for a fascinating—and worrying—bit of data dumpster diving.
Sure, this is a bleedin’ one-to-one copy of feckin’ Wikipedia. Give it an aul’ spin.
This is so good. On father’s day, Harry asks his father, an award-winning copywriter, for advice on writing. The result is an knowledge bomb of excellent advice.
This is rather wonderful: a DevFort project for navigating interweaving strands of history, James Burke style.
Well, I guess this is one way of encouraging people to upgrade their browser.
A nice round-up of the issues around responsive images and their potential solutions.
A co-working space in Brighton combined with a crèche: such a great idea!
Some of these hacks created at the Science Hack Day in Eindhoven are seriously nuts. That’s “nuts” as in “brilliant”.
Neal Stephenson would like your help in making a video game about sword-fighting that doesn’t suck.
Beautiful time-lapse photography from Don “we’ve got a Dragon by the tail” Pettit, taken from the International Space Station.
It took me a while to get my head ‘round it, but this routing service from 37 Signals is handy for testing local sites on multiple devices (kind of like showoff.io).
If you’re adding some noise texture to your backgrounds, this little service might be handy. I usually base-64 encode these kinds of background images: it would be nice to see that added as an option here.
Pointless fun.
In light of the recent death of Ray Bradbury, I think we should all honour his memory by revisiting this song (featuring some future-friendly headgear).
I’ll feed you grapes and Dandelion Wine and we’ll read a little Fahrenheit 69…
Some sensible ideas about having a consistent CSS writing style.
A great article on the importance of sketching for mobile-first responsive designs, complete with practical ideas for workshopping.
A really great markup and CSS pattern for “content first, navigation second” from Aaron.
Markov-generated Quora questions …far more entertaining than actual Quora questions.
The way that Chloe has catalogued her music over time is fascinating. It’s like the Long Now opposite of This Is My Jam.
Jake demonstrates his technique for preprocessor-generated stylesheets for older versions of Internet Explorer (while other browsers get the same styles within media queries).
This is an excellent idea from Jake: use a preprocessor to automatically spit out a stylesheet for older versions of IE that includes desktop styles (garnered from the declarations within media queries).
If you’re a dab hand with Ruby and you’d like to see this in SASS, you can help.
I’m really pleased to be working with Bobbie on Matter.
Not only is FixMyStreet responsive, it’s using the “display: table-caption” trick I documented for adjustable “content first/navigation second” source order.
