Since Steve Job’s return in 1997, Apple has been bold about dropping legacy I/O standards, on a knife edge between marching the state-of-the-art forward and convincing the world to follow suit. It’s been the same … Read more
Rotary: A Retro Web Input for Phone Numbers
A bad web form sparked a series of increasingly absurd designs for inputting phone numbers, including an incrementer, slider, random number generator, and very large table. Here’s a good rundown of the solutions developers came … Read more
Learning CSS Layout with Flexbox Froggy
I’ve created a game for learning CSS flexbox called Flexbox Froggy. The goal of the game is to help the frogs get to their lilypads by writing CSS code. See if you can beat all … Read more
Bob Ross’ Color Palette in CSS
Even if you’ve never watched an episode of The Joy of Painting, there’s a good chance you’re familiar with artist Bob Ross, with his trademark afro and “happy little trees”. But if you’ve seen his … Read more
Survey of CMS Usage on Newspaper Websites
As of this month, 25 percent of all websites are using WordPress, according to W3Techs survey. This ubiquity was one of the leading factors in choosing WordPress as the platform for Snowball. Of course Snowball’s … Read more