December 2011
46 posts
The change you want to see →
A little while back, Andy wrote: Even if you happen to be a genius in the waiting, there are no svengalis to pluck you from obscurity and put you on the pedestal you know you deserve. … So if…
“The corollary to all this empowerment is that it’s up to each of us to do...”
– The maker makes: on design, community, and personal empowerment – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
Retreat 4 Geeks 2012 →
As the year draws to a close, I find myself casting an eye back on the past twelve months. There are two events that stand out for me:
Mobilewood—the get-together in the woods of Tennessee that…
“Design the simplest, most delightful product you can. Write organized,...”
– Craftsmanship | Dave Gamache: Designer & Adventurer
“Craftsmanship on the web presents an interesting challenge. How we build for the...”
– Dave Gamache: Designer & Adventurer
“The most revolutionary thing that we can do over the next 20 years is just make...”
– Bill Buxton: It’s All About The Band You Play With on Renderosity.com
iWish →
Dear Apple Claus, I’ve been a very good boy this year so I hope you don’t me asking for a little present. What I’d really like for Christmas is for you to fix that strange orientation scaling bug…
“The filmmaker had an even more interesting appellation for one of the Cantina...”
– The Star Wars Holiday Special | magazine | Vanity Fair
“Remix culture is the new Prohibition, with massive media companies as the lone...”
– No Copyright Intended - Waxy.org
The last show of the year →
I flew out to San Francisco last week for An Event Apart. This was the final event (apart) of the year so it was something of a bittersweet affair. This year the line-up for AEA was—with some…
“The minute we start giving the middle finger to these other platforms, devices...”
– Support Vs Optimization | Brad Frost Web
“The power of the web is its ubiquity. It is the web’s superpower, and its...”
– Support Vs Optimization | Brad Frost Web
“I worry, though, that we might be losing a lot of this hand-me-down social...”
– The Gingerbread Project | Contents Magazine
Watch(via Battlestar Galactica Addiction of the Day - TDW Geeks)
“In any case, detecting the User Agent only allows us to apply logic based on the...”
– 24 ways: Raising the Bar on Mobile
“We’ve been taught by the tech dominant culture in North America that we need to...”
– Designers, what’s the rush? | Normative - Design for Devices and the Web
“I’ll keep playing here while the rest of you flirt with apps. I’ll...”
– Scripting News: Why apps are not the future
“There’s a mentality that in order to do create functional experiences in the...”
– The Mobile Case for Progressive Enhancement | Brad Frost Web
One week of Map Tales →
It’s been just a week since Clearleft unveiled the Map Tales project that we built at Hackfarm and there have already been some great stories told with the site. Paul documented …
The forgotten house →
The Never Forgotten House is a beautifully-written piece with a central premise that is utterly, utterly flawed. Once again the truism that “the internet never forgets” is presented as though it…
Clean conditional loading →
It’s December. That means it’s time for the geek advent calendars to get revved up again:
PHP Advent 2011,
Adfont Calendar 2011 and
24 Ways 2011.
For every day until Christmas eve, you…
Watch(via The Voyage Of The Beagle on Map Tales)
