The “Dark Matter Developer” moniker has been floating around for several years. Scott Hanselman introduced the term to describe developers who do not have active online or social personas:
…They don’t read a lot of blogs, they never write blogs,
Over the weekend I noticed an interesting design for a progress meter in a videogame. The % complete was listed in text in the middle of the bar and didn’t move. But that text was the same color as the …
There isn’t just a single CSS property that you reach for when hiding and showing things in CSS. There are a bunch of considerations that we’ll go over in this video.
For instance, there is the display property in which …
In April 2014 Tim Evko created a WordPress plugin that used the CMS’s capabilities to make using responsive images much easier (just do what you were already doing, reap benefits). He wrote about it here. Later it became the official …
The following is a guest post by Scott Fennell. Scott is a WordPress theme & plugin developer in Anchorage, Alaska. Here, he customizes the default HTML output of WordPress’ menu system to his liking, without damaging the useful things …
Dave Rupert is switching to Windows in part because the web dev crowd is a little heavy on the Apple, which isn’t true, generally, of the user’s we build for.
But not only is he switching, he’s documenting the important …
A series of articles by Bram Stein on typography, performance and modern day best-practices for using fonts. I particularly like what Bram has to say on overusing web fonts:
…Another recent trend is using web fonts where they’re not
Ever wondered why we have CSS color names like tomato, salmon and darkgoldenrod? Ars Technica on the evolution (and convolution) of the “Named Colors” spec:
…Backlash ensued. The color database had been subjected to the whims of
I really want to be a better musician. Someday, I will be. I know what it takes: practice.
I want to get really good. I want people to hear me play and say to themselves “hey that guy really knows …
New Google thing, aimed at unsucking the “mobile” web:
…The Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Project is an initiative to improve the mobile web and enhance the distribution ecosystem. If content is fast, flexible and beautiful, including compelling and effective ads,
Greensock really knocked it out of the park with this one. You know shape morphing? It’s a cool effect with loads of uses ranging from practical to artistic. SMIL can do it, but the future of that is in …
