As I drove home from my weekly game night, I caught the tail-end of FutureWork airing on OPB radio. In the 10 or so minutes that I caught, my career decisions were validated. It feels nice. Here’s a transcript excerpt: Robert Reich: Now let’s return to this idea of what exactly the workers of the […]
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I recently completed a week of paid time off, which allowed me to completely level and landscape my front parkway with custom pavers. It also gave me some time to reflect on how time off affects my work once I return and what makes for quality time off.
Rich web interaction mockups
I’ve talked before about how much I like Keynote. Although it’s somewhat ridiculous, this tool is a one-stop-shop for mockups. For my usage, it contains just the right balance of speed and fidelity. But I’ve struggled for a while to find a way to mockup interactions. Specifically animations as things became more complex and harder […]
When to user test and when to A/B test
I sometimes see A/B testing and user testing being talked about interchangeably. These two types of testing are approached differently and at different times in a project lifecycle. Depending on what is being tested, their goals may be different. Difference between A/B testing and user tests User testing is really a specific method of usability testing. It […]
Small image hero
So you want to create a really large hero component or call to action with a focus on images to perhaps add some visual interest to the area or break up an otherwise fairly boring sea of flat boxes. One big challenge will be to get really large images, in the correct (very narrow) aspect […]
Why running beta can be bad, even if you know what you’re doing.
A while ago—about the last post on this blog—I decided to start running Trunk. Since 3.6 was a few weeks away at that time and I wanted to know what was going on with Post Formats, I also modified the site to utilize some of the fun new functions. Then the Post Format upgrades were […]
This theme on github
I just put this theme up on Github to make it easier for me to push and pull changes. It isn’t that exciting; the core of the theme is about 2 years old and frankly kind of scary. I just started updating it for use with 3.6’s post formats, however.
Post meta as post object method
Thanks Erick Hitter for presenting this at WCPHX In WP >=3.5 global $post $meta = get_post_meta( ‘$post->ID, ‘my_key’, true ); … is the same as … global $post $meta = $post->mey_key;
Nitti
It’s got a weird name; apparently it was named after an Al Capone henchman. Nitti is the font that IA writer selected for their popular writing apps. It’s monospaced, beautiful, and I want to put it in my code editor. In fact, I’d be happy if pretty much everywhere I did writing had this font. […]
Post Format Archives
Post formats have an archive and all the endpoints that come with that (e.g. feeds). /type/{post format}/ via wp query – Does WordPress generate an automatic page for post formats? – WordPress Answers.