Jeremy Keith on progressive enhancement - YouTube
Almost six minutes of me squinting in the sun and sharing my reckons while seagulls squawk in the background.
Link archive: July 16th, 2014
The Making of Aprilzero
The first in a series of posts looking at the process behind builfing this “quantified self” site:
As with most decisions in my life, I asked myself: What would Tony Stark do?
Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch (HD) Camera E-8 on Vimeo
45 years ago today.
Chloe Weil · Rudiger Meyer
I keep thinking that the world needs more Chloe, not less
Smart Fixed Navigation
Here’s an intriguing approach to offering a navigation control that adapts as the user scrolls.
I’m not too keen on the way it duplicates the navigation in the markup though. I might have a play to see if I can find a way to progressively enhance up from a link-to-footer pattern to achieve this.
How to build the sensory web by John Allsopp
John peers behind the surface veneer of the web’s current screen-based setting:
The challenge for us as developers and designers for the web becomes less about screens and pixels and buttons and much more about how the web augments our lives, both actively and passively; how it makes us know ourselves and our homes and workplaces and environments better.
The right to flight: why I’m flying a balloon over London this summer
Watch the skies: James Bridle’s balloon will be hovering above London distributing wifi.
Urban Giants on Vimeo
A look at the architectural history of the network hubs of New York: 32 Avenue of the Americas and 60 Hudson Street. Directed by Davina Pardo and written by her husband Andrew Blum, author of Tubes: A Journey to the Centre of the Internet.
These buildings were always used as network hubs. It’s just that the old networks were used to house the infrastructure of telephone networks (these were the long line buildings).
In a way, the big server hotel of New York—111 Eight Avenue—was also always used to route packets …it’s just that the packets used to be physical.