I was visiting a marketing software company with a renowned professor when he said something that both startled and intrigued me: “Programmers,” he said, “are arrogant.” He’s right. We are. My mind flashed back to earlier this morning when I was reading comments on Hacker News about a supposed fork to a popular programming language. [...]
I was experimenting with my own version of the CSS3 Awesome button, when I noticed one of the commenters share the base64 encoded version of the semi-transparent PNG image they were using as a substitute for a gradient. I was using a smaller image, and want to run a conversion of my own (it saves [...]
It’s probably old hat to anyone doing design for a living, but I found a couple of new color tools for OS X that are making my web design work easier. I use TextMate for coding, and wasn’t thinking about the CSS bundle item that brings up OS X’s default color picker (Command-Shift-C; the TextMate [...]
I’m fascinated by data visualization. Expressing complex ideas in a simple way is immensely powerful. In my post yesterday, I linked to a county-by-county time lapse of unemployment rates. I’ve found some interesting images (complete with a thorough explanation) examining the U.S. economy. The article is interesting, but the images, if you’ll pardon the cliché, [...]
Go here first. Then come back. I’ll wait. The trouble with talking about government budgets, even ones as small as a city or local school district, is that big numbers rapidly lose meaning to people. It’s more visceral to talk about a dozen people (or dollars or “things”) than to discuss a million of then. [...]
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