I find sites like Daring Fireball impossible to read. I’m not sure what it is, but the dark background makes my eyes go blurry. My issue is certainly not just limited to that one site either—dark background-ed sites are all over. I’d been wishing there was some way to remedy this for a long time [...] Continue →
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From Drupal to Jekyll
My biggest goal was to get back to writing instead of applying updates (and thinking of more efficient ways to apply updates). Long-time Drupal developer @wakah writes about moving his personal blog from Drupal to Jekyll. This isn’t just about choosing the right tool for the job, its fundamentally about choosing (or not choosing) Drupal. [...] Continue →
Why I switched to WordPress
One of the 500 reasons why I switched to WordPress from Drupal lies below. If you’re reading this as a non-coder, please simply understand that this markup is absolutely heinous, overcomplicated and completely unnecessary. For the sake of context, and humour, the same markup in WordPress could easily look like this: ht to @ncbeets for [...] Continue →
On [not] learning to program
Back when I was desperately trying to learn PHP a few years ago, I would have killed for the resources that are all over the web today. If I had had those Stanford classes, Kahn Academy, Code Academy or Think Vitamin, maybe I would have actually learned to program. Instead, I struggled along with out-dated [...] Continue →
Getting Paid for your Late Nights
I came across a very nice new site today from a new WordPress development shop, The WP Co. They seem to do custom WordPress design, PSD > WordPress, and plugin development. But that’s not what’s interesting about their site. What’s interesting is their Request a Quote page. While I was admiring the handy JavaScript work, [...] Continue →
Ghostly Ferns
I just discovered Ghostly Ferns today and I just can’t stop scrolling. Cool content, and so, so, so well designed. It seems rare to see hand-crafted blogs like this out there today. It feels like it was made 5 years ago.
Marco Arment on design culture
Demonstrate from the top that high quality and attention to detail are prioritized and appreciated above everything else, including being the first to market, having the most features, or having the most aggressive prices. If you can get those as well, that’s great, but quality will not be sacrificed to do so. Instill these values [...] Continue →
charity:water—year two
A friendly reminder that the September charity:water campaign is on. I donate through Cameron Moll’s campaign, as he tries to corale the design community to raise $35,000, almost double last year’s ambitious goal. Charity:water works to help the staggering 1 in 8 people in the world without access to clean water.
You can help.
