This is lots of fun. Muxtape you already know about, and Fluid is an application for making self-contained applications out of webpages. As you’ll see in this little video, it does that and a whole lot more. It’s a fantastic app to have in your arsenal, and a great tool for listening to Muxtape.
Recently Brent Simmons put up the latest version of NetNewsWire which includes a small attribution to yours truly in the release notes. Settle down, settle down, return to your seats, people.
The little itty-bitty thing I worked on was the page that shows up in the web browser when you hit a page that either doesn’t exist or the browser can’t find for some reason (the internet is down, server is down, etc).
This is the first time I’ve had the pleasure of having my work included in someone else’s Mac software. The kinda funny thing is that it’s been in there for nearly two years! I first sent that file to Brent sometime around the summer of 2006.
The error page has gotten better and more savvy since then, as I occasionally update it whenever I either find a way to improve it or tweak something that’s been bothering me about it. Brent always slides it into the next private beta and it …
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Pretty sweet little site for making your own mixtapes. I kinda wish you could make more than one per account, but their crazy-simple three-field sign-up form is pretty sweet.
Gruber links to a story mentioning that the US penny not only costs more than a penny to produce but it’s worth has declined substantially.
Gruber says he’s “been throwing pennies away for years”, and while I agree with Garrett that saving change is preferable, I’ve been advocating for years that we should just do away with the penny all together. Just 50 years ago a penny had more worth than today’s quarter.
Let’s ditch the penny, get a dollar coin (we can even put Lincoln on it), and round all our transactions to the nearest .05. It’s not uncommon for economies to adopt this practice. Why not us?
In just a few days this blog will celebrate it’s fourth birthday. How fun! No need to send gifts or cards. Just raise your glass in the direction of Colorado.
Here’s something else to celebrate too. A few months ago, I joined up with Happy Cog Studios as a Strategic Partner. What an honor! Back before I even started my blog, I read Designing with Web Standards, Happy Cog founder Jeffrey Zeldman’s book about the proper way to make websites. It was then that I thought, “Hey, I should really get into making websites the proper way.” My first real exercise in doing that was starting up my blog. (See how we’re coming full circle here?)
So far working with Happy Cog has been a really wonderful experience. I enjoy working with a group of people who are so talented and also have people dedicated to tasks that I normally only can do part-time, such as project management and client relations. Being a “Strategic Partner” with Happy Cog means I get to work with them a lot on …
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It’s that special time of year, when everybody is packing up to head out to SXSW. This will be my third time going down to Austin for this geekfest, and it should be a really good time. I have the honor of co-hosting a Core Conversation with the dashing Mark Bixby this year. We’re really excited about the topic and it already seems like we have a nice crowd of rad people joining us for it.
The topic is Specialization vs. Doing it All. Can a designer/developer do it all, and be good at it all? If not, what does that mean and how does specializing impact:
- a project.
- your business plan.
- client expectations.
- competitive edge.
- marketability.
- your creative and personal satisfaction.
We’ll share our personal stories about what things have been like for us in this realm, as well as some lessons and ideas about collabortion. However, the key to Core Conversations is that they’re round-table discussions, which …
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Fantastic interview with Stephanie Sullivan one of twelve great speakers appearing at An Event Apart New Orleans on April 24–25. Stephanie Sullivan is someone I’d love to meet in person, as I rarely come across people who are pretty much my exact counterparts.
My good buddy, and local design ninja, Derek Balmer out of the blue decided to do an awesome illustration of Bridget and I, based off a photo that was taken just hours after she was born. As a reminder, you can follow Bridget’s adventures on her website, BridgetWarren.com. Thanks Derek!
An entire site based on spec work. They say they’re “[c]onnecting image makers with buyers.” But what they’re really doing is creating micro-contests where a bunch of people do a bunch of work and a select few get paid for it. Awesome! Anything that tries to recruit people by using the words “make a name for yourself” makes me irky. There are plenty of ways to make a name for yourself without devaluing an industry at the same time. My advice: Run away.
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Be Good Not Bad is all about really good web design, based on the utmost respect for web standards, accessibility and respect for the user. Based in Denver, Colorado, Be Good Not Bad is run by Brian Warren, freelance designer, blogger, homebrewer and coffee nut.
