- Making Your App Work Offiline: Tips & Cautionary Tales | Quick Left
Some notes on pitfalls of enabling a JS app to work offline.
Tag: webdesign
Bookmarks for May 21, 2012
- The Toolbox: a directory of useful single-page sites and apps
Really useful set of stuff. Wonder how fast I could roll my own wordpress layout with these tools.
- electric imp
Easy to install wifi for well, everything. If this takes off, things (no, literally, things, physical-object-things are going to get interesting. The only thing I object to is the same thing I do with all cloud services – that the devices talk to the company's servers, rather than a system in the home, thereby making the company a single point-of-failure for its own technology. You would not buy a wristwatch that stopped working if Casio went bust, why sould any other technology be different.
Bookmarks for July 28, 2010
- aardvarkonsea.com/letterpress
My boss turned this up on a routine vanity search for our company name (Aardvark Media), and immediately ordered a couple of the posters, from of all this, a Tea room in St Leonards-on-Sea. I am quite tempted to order one of them for myself for home as well. Any manifesto which begins "Kill your TV" and includes "Make Stuff", "Drink Tea", "Bake Cake", "Grow You Community" and "Champion the Underdog" is kind of tailor made for me, and, I would imagine, a number of other people reading this.
- Daring Fireball: An Improved Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching URLs
I bookmarked Gruber's previous efforts on this front, and I will move to using this improved pattern in the future.
- Fish in a barrel – Neven Mrgan's tumbl
A comparison of Apple's iMac website with the websites for Dell and HP's primary desktop machines. I'm genuinely not posting this to cheerlead for Apple, I'm actually posting it as a reminder to self in a "what not to do" kind of way, because I suspect a lot og my work falls closer to HP and Dell than Apple.
- Quantum time machine 'allows paradox-free time travel' – Telegraph
My brain hurts. Of possibly it will hurt in the future, and the quantum-level changes have moved back in time. In any event, I eagerly await being given a quantum supercomputer to play with.
Bookmarks for July 8, 2009
- Alex's Stuff – Why web design sucks in '09
Look, I know I go on a lot about IE, and most of you are sick of it, but the gods honest truth is that using IE actively stifles innovation on the internet, because we have to spend so much time working out how to support it that we don't have the time or budget to get on with anything really interesting. Until Microsoft either take the web seriously enough to implement some proper fucking standards, then using IE is actively hindering the rest of us getting on with inventing the future. Even if you don't care about viruses, please stop it, or urge the people who are making you use it to stop it – I will happily provide supporting documents to counter *any* or their arguments about "business" or "security" reasons.
- Just for Laughs -Jean Paul Satre's Lost Cookbook
"Still working on the omelet. There have been stumbling blocks. I keep creating omelets one after another, like soldiers marching into the sea, but each one seems empty, hollow, like stone. I want to create an omelet that expresses the meaninglessness of existence, and instead they taste like cheese. I look at them on the plate, but they do not look back. Tried eating them with the lights off. It did not help. Malraux suggested paprika."
Bookmarks for December 18, 2008
- Six Grid Desktop.
Anyone who has seen my desktop will know it tends to er, fill up a bit. So let's see if this makes it easier for me to manage my home work flow. (I know it won't work in the office, because of the sheer amount of random crap I need to get swift access to in any given week…)
- Objectified: A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit
I finally got around to watching Helevtica (the film about the font) while I was away at the weekend, and it was really very good. I look forward to seeing this.
- k-punk: The voice of Weird paternalism
On the difference between Oliver Postgate's heyday and now: "There are no children, there are no adults, there is no wonder: only adolescents in waiting, being spoken to by screamingly selfconscious adolescents in their twenties and thirties."
- Simple White WordPress Theme
What it says on the tin. I'd need to play with it a bit to get it to work for me, but I do like the basic structure.
- Poolga. iPhone and iPod Touch wallpapers for the rest of us.
Yes, I shall be wanting some of these for my phone, for those times when I get bored of my own photos.
- 11 Creative Coffee and Tea Mug Designs
May of these are superb, and I would be delighted to own them. Just, y'know, saying.
- undrln
Digg/Reddit type site for design/branding/media stuff.
- 2008 Greek riots – The Big Picture – Boston.com
I am torn between awe at these pictures, and horror at the events they depict. Even if you don't normally look at the photography links I post, you can't afford to miss this one.