Pre-generating Justified Views Ross Harmes on how the Flickr team achieved a 7× speed increase in page render times: The first time you come to any Flickr page, we store the width of your browser window in a cookie. We can then read that cookie on the server on subsequent page loads. Gotta love a […]
A better, brighter Flickr Flickr Redesign Round-up! The official announcement over at the Flickr Blog. I know that there are a lot of people hating on the new redesign, but I think I "get" the vision behind it. I think they're making a calculated gamble with such a dramatic re-thinking of their interface (to say […]
Flickr Is Back, Letting Us Go Home Again Mat Honan at Wired.com's Gadget Lab blog: And that’s the thing: Flickr feels like a permanent home. Pretty much how I've felt about it all along. (Via DF.) (tagged: Flickr ) What’s new in CSS 4 selectors Dr. Axel Rauschmayer with the CSS4 selector "highlights". Specifying the […]
Huddle/PhantomCSS More awesome stuff you can do with PhantomJS: CSS regression testing. An integration of js-imagediff with PhantomJS and CasperJS for automating visual regression testing and test coverage of Website styling to support refactoring of CSS. (tagged: testing CSS PhantomJS JavaScript ) Complexity Analysis of JavaScript Code Ariya Hidayat, on the JSComplexity tool. The briefest […]
CSS3 Animations: the Hiccups and Bugs You’ll Want to Avoid At Webdesigntuts+. Note to self: review these suggestions against the personal blog's stylesheets and see if it fixes that one little thing… (Bonus points if you've noticed that one little thing as well.) (tagged: CSS3 ) idiomatic-css Nicholas Gallagher: The following document outlines a reasonable […]
Star City and the Baikonur Cosmodrome At The Atlantic. Everything awesome is happening in Russia. (tagged: Cold War Nostalgia Russia Cosmodrome Baikonur ) How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet At Gizmodo. It's long (and I'll admit to having only skimmed much of it), and it's pessimistic, but a lot of it is also […]
Flexibility: A Foundation for Responsive Design Emily Lewis (writing at Script Junkie) with a discussion of fluid grid techniques (practices and pitfalls) for building responsive designs. (tagged: Emily Lewis fluid grids media query responsive design ) Tolkien’s 10 Tips for Writers At writingishardwork. It took him 7 years to write The Hobbit. (117) The thing […]
In all of last week’s commotion, I almost missed this completely: In October 2010, we were privileged to get a tour of Portland Head Light, 1 including a peek inside the actual lamp housing. As so many of my pictures do, these ended up on Flickr to be shared with the world. 2 And sometime […]
The Sass Way (tagged: Ruby css Sass blog ) Sass for Designers at SonSpring (tagged: webdev css sass ) Nanolaw with Daughter Been meaning to read this for months. Finally for around to it. So worth it. (tagged: writing scifi future history fiction ) In the privacy of our homes at Code: Flickr Developer Blog […]
I caught the news about Yahoo! via the DF post earlier today. And all I could think was: Well shit, that’s really shitty. I’ve felt for some time like Yahoo! is a weird beast. Before Google, Yahoo! was here I went when I wanted to search. But the company hung on as an iconic web […]