April 2012
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Down the Barrel: A short story of found... →
holzemerarthouse:
Some things tend to change the way you live your life. Not everybody gets to experience these things. Some people live everyday on a routine that goes on and on, never evolving. But, every once and a while something happens that can force your priorities into an order previously unseen.
Some inspiring words from a coworker of mine, Tim Holzemer.
October 2011
1 post
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Steve Jobs →
lilly:
Like many of us, I’ve been thinking a lot about Steve Jobs the last few days — thinking about the man and his legacy. I’ve been having some trouble even understanding the way I feel, let alone being able to put it into words. Lots of folks have asked me what I think, and have been surprised that I…
Some great thoughts on the recent events from John Lilly.
August 2011
2 posts
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“…sooner or later, things start wearing off on you if you’re in proximity...”
– - Joshua Blankenship, The Influence of Proximity
Funny that I came across this tonight, I actually had heard this in a meeting as a takeaway and to read it again. Great imagery that Joshua brings up in the first few paragraphs.
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“Because users can change the size and shape of their web browser windows, you...”
– The Apple Web Design Guide - Circa 1996 -
July 2011
4 posts
In a Word: PERSIST. →
Some great advice to get through your day.
cameronmoll:
This morning I tweeted about a lack of inspiration and having to trudge through it. In response, @brainhofj tweeted about the following:
This handwritten letter is by Austin Madison, Pixar animator of Rex, the green dinosaur in the Toy Story series (among other characters he’s…
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Thoughts On Subconscious Information Processing
A good quote and great start of an idea from Fred Wilson:
He explained that once your brain starts working on a problem, it doesn’t stop. If you get your mind wrapped around a problem with a fair bit of time left to solve it, the brain will solve the problem subconsciously over time and one day you’ll sit down to do some more work on it and the answer will be right in front of you.
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“Creativity is applying ordinary tools of thought to existing materials.”
– Kerby Ferguson - Everything is a Remix
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June 2011
3 posts
Beautiful Hard Graft Phone Wallet →
A beautifully hand made phone wallet from Hard Graft. It’s been added to my wishlist.
A few CSS rounded tooltips
Some interesting tidbits I’ve been meaning to post. A couple weeks back I ran into a couple Dribbble posts that were looking at some ways to create the designs with CSS. Being that I was more interested myself to see what the outcomes would be for my own sake, I dove in trying to see if they could be done differently than anyone else had posted.
Rounded Point Tooltip
The first was this...
“One’s dreams are constantly evolving, rising and falling, changing course.”
– Conan O’Brien, 2011 Dartmouth College Commencement Address
May 2011
6 posts
Preserve-3d and List Items with a Column Count
So in working on our new site for Gaslight, I’ve run into a little quirk dealing with * {-webkit-transform-style: preserve-3d;} and and unordered list with a -webkit-column-count: n;.
The idea behind using preserve-3d came from an article I came across by Juan over at Cuban Council. The premise comes from using 3D to have Webkit browsers smooth out animations on both mobile and desktop and...
Responsive Web Design by Ethan Marcotte →
Having just finished some of these, I’m hoping to get my hands on a copy.
cameronmoll:
I have an advance copy in hand, and I can’t wait for this to be released to the general public on June 7. Ten bucks says it outsells the first A Book Apart title, HTML5 for Web Designers, which I’m fairly certain did extremely well.
Pure CSS3 Animated Chat Icon
Today I’d like to share with you the code that I had set up for my chat icon for my social navigation. My ideas were to bring a little more context to the icons on hover and I wanted to come up with an animated version for each one. After coming up with the chat icon, I had used some images to create it and figured that there could be an way to do it without using any images for fun. You can...
Dribbble
I’d like to thank Kyle Meyer (@kylemeyer) for drafting me to Dribbble. I hope I rep MN well and have a lot of exciting things that I’m working towards that I’ll be sharing on there. Be sure to follow me for what’s to come down the line.
High five to Kyle!
The Golden Circle and Why
A great video about some of the greatest leaders and the power of why. One of the biggest take away is “People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it.” I think it rings very true and think you should take 20 minutes of your time to watch, well worth it.
How great leaders inspire action - Simon Sinek
Also: startwithwhy.com/
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“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us...”
– Ira Glass (via nefffy)