May 2010
22 posts
“Try to avoid burdening your users with choices on how to perform an action....”
– How To Critique An Interface « Aza on Design
Efficiently Rendering CSS →
So we know that ID’s are the most efficient selectors. If you wanted to make the most efficiently rendering page possible, you would literally give every single element on the page a unique ID, then apply styling with single ID selectors. That would be super fast, and also super ridiculous. It would probably be extremely non-semantic and extremely difficult to maintain. You don’t see this...
Children Of Men: Extended Takes
I learned about ‘Extended Takes’ a while ago, and yesterday I watched one movie from the list ‘20 Greatest Extended Takes In Movie History’: Children of Men.
This movie contains a lot of these long scenes without cut. Two of those immediately got my attention. But first, here’s some context on what the movie is about:
Set in the United Kingdom of 2027, the film...
nikf.org: An Observation →
I’m all for pointing out the iPhones flaws: it may be polished, but we’d all agree it has some. But to sting it in reviews based on the promise that a third-party will ship a media plugin at a yet-to-be-determined date, seems petty. […]
I guess judging a device based on actual features and user experience, instead of its ‘inability to run a hypothetical, hither-to-unseen media plugin’,...
Duncan's Journal: Android VM Performance is not a... →
A faster VM will certainly help things out. But Android’s eventual fate will have little to do with how fast the VM is or how long method dispatches take on the iPhone. Instead, it’ll have to do with harder things like user experience, service plans, interoperability, and excellent applications.
A lot of developers - and tech folks in general - seem to be so obsessed with benchmarks and raw,...
Watchfiltercake:
Pictured Fences 1 by Mntl Gassi (via rebel:art)
Incredible!
Watch5v3n:
filtercake:
“A nine-minute history of corporatism.”
Life Inc. The Movie (by Douglas Rushkoff)
OK, so “digital renaissance” was a bad catchphrase for my recent post. Apart from that sad insight - great thoughts on taylorism / scientific management & the resulting social disconnection.
5v3n.com: A Digital Renaissance? →
Is programming our era’s equivalent of literacy?
“Do me a favor, will you? Stop giving me the run around just like the rest of the...”
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From the saddest email I’ve received today.
It’s from an Internet Explorer user, frustrated that he couldn’t get Instapaper’s “Read Later” bookmarklet installed. (It’s incredibly clunky to do in IE, because IE doesn’t support the troops, poisons your children, and gives you cancer.)
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H.R. Giger's website FAQ →
Look at the FAQs on H.R. Giger’s website. They are totally honest and straight forward; definitely not your usual ‘fake’ FAQs.
I particularly like this section (it is long, but totally worth it):
WHEN SHOULD FANS CONTACT GIGER’S AGENT?
Hardly ever. But fans being fans and not always prone to listening to reason, they will do whatever they want, regardless of the advice...
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Solving the Alt-Tab Problem « Aza on Design →
This describes a problem I experience quite often:
You’ve been using alt-tab to bounce back-and-forth between your text editor and your web browser—you’ve formed a habit. You now click over to your Twitter client to see your friend’s latest updates, click back to your text editor, type a few sentences and hit alt-tab. What happens? Because of your habit, you expect it to go to your web...
The Peter Principle →
The Peter Principle is the principle that “In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence.”
It holds that in a hierarchy, members are promoted so long as they work competently. Sooner or later they are promoted to a position at which they are no longer competent (their “level of incompetence”), and there they remain, being unable to earn...
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