The Daily Report
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A Holiday Wish
We are all designers. You may call yourself a front-end developer, but if you spend hours shaving half-seconds off an interaction, that’s user experience and you, my friend, are a designer. If the client asks,…
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Poverty is a System Design Failure
“POVERTY is a system-design failure.” So says my friend Pär (“Peyo”) Almqvist in a World Economic Forum article he wrote last year when his company, OMC Power—which brings sustainable, renewable, off-the-grid energy to the poorest…
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Big Web Show ? 123: Why Clients Spend More on Toilets Than Design
DESIGNER Andy Budd and I discuss why clients spend more on toilet cleaning than design; honest pitching; the ins and outs of agile pricing; modular code libraries; selling web services instead of deliverables; the maturation…
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Webfonts with Stylistic Sets from Hoefler & Co.
Now there’s a way to transform your web typography at the touch of a button: introducing Stylistic Sets for webfonts at Cloud.typography. www.typography.com/blog/webfonts-with-stylistic-sets/
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Big, Beautiful Dropcaps with CSS initial-letter
Just beautiful. demosthenes.info/blog/961/Big-Beautiful-DropCaps-with-CSS-initial-letter
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What’s Wrong With This Picture? Flickr is about to sell off your Creative Commons photos
SHORTSIGHTED and sucky. From Dazed comes news that Flickr is about to sell off our Creative Commons photos. This means photos we’ve taken with the idea of giving them away freely will now be sold,…
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Diversity and Web Standards
On this year’s Blue Beanie Day, as we celebrate web standards, we also celebrate our community’s remarkable diversity—and pledge to keep things moving in a positive, humanist direction. Racism, sexism, misogyny and other forms of…
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No Ken Do (Musketeer Barbie Saves the Prince)
I WATCHED dozens of Barbie videos hundreds of times when my daughter was three and four years old. I can’t praise their animation, dialog, or other cinematic and literary qualities, but this I can say…
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Love, Devotion, Surrender
5:00 AM at San Francisco Airport, Gate 41. A young mother, whose orange capped son sleeps profoundly across her lap, is not faring well with her mobile phone call. Her voice cuts like a razor…
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Tested
WE ARE at a test prep program in Flatiron, where Ava is grudgingly taking an entrance exam. Lance, the program director, is good. He guarantees he can get Ava into a good middle school if…
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Blue Beanie Day Tees & Hoodies
JUST IN TIME for Blue Beanie Day? 2014, I’ve teamed up with our friends at Cotton Bureau? to bring you Blue Beanie Day Tees and Blue Beanie Day Hoodies. For sale at cost (no profit).…
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Look Back in Angora
SATURDAY October 25 will be the 14th anniversary of my mother’s passing. Let’s honor it with this 2006 entry from the vaults of My Glamorous Life. Read: Hi, Mom!
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A Sickroom With a View
Chicago is a dynamite town, but it may not be the best place to recover from a cold.
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1,000 nerds
THE MODERN SOCIAL WEB is a miracle of progress but also a status-driven guilt-spewing shit volcano. Back in the 1990s—this will sound insane—we paid a lot of money for our tilde accounts, like $30 or…
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Afternoon Pages
SLEPT much of yesterday. Slept till 1 PM today. Whatever this bug is I’ve got, it lets me work and care for my child during the week, then flattens me all weekend. Fortunately my daughter…