Making Menus Escapable
A post on my impressions of Ubuntu 11 led to lots of thoughtful discussion here and over at Hacker News. The part that seemed to generate the most interest was my take on why certain … Read more
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Seven Minutes in Ubuntu
For a while now, I’ve been using my home machine with MAMP to develop a research prototype. But last week, I got my hands on a PC to use as a web server. Before I … Read more
The Devour Effect
The folks over at Devour maintain a nice collection of videos, wrapped in a clean interface. One of the touches is that each video is presented using what I call the Devour Effect: a text … Read more
Trebek: Building an Offline Web App
In my experimentation with HTML5, I ended up making Trebek, a web app that allows you to play along at home with Jeopardy! The idea is that by trying to answer questions before the contestants … Read more
Sizing Up Programmatically
Yesterday, I showed a graphic that lays out popular devices by display size. In this post, I want to show a version created using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The upside of doing this programmatically rather … Read more