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  1. Stuntbox, LLC.

    David Sleight, someone whose work I’ve admired for years, is finally striking out on his own.

    Do right by yourselves, people. If you need an insightful creative director, an insanely talented designer, and/or a talented, thoughtful developer, hire the hell out of him.

    Visit this site →

    This is a link posted on day 11964 in the Journal.

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  2. Webkit bug YAY!

    So this is somewhat interesting. Here’s the skinny:

    • Let’s say you’re using a WebKit-based browser.
    • Let’s also say that you’re mucking around with a little @font-face, along with a few other CSS shinies.
    • Now, let’s also also say that you’re mucking around with -webkit-transition, a less-than-standard but still somewhat sexy stylesheet property—specifically, you’re applying a CSS transition to a link when the user hovers over it.

    What’s the result? Well, if you’re hovering over the link while your text is being resized, it looks something like this:

    So in short, -webkit-transition and @font-face produce a weird, freaky love child visual bug if you’re hovering over a link and resizing your text. The text will temporarily revert to the next non-@font-face font in the stack—Helvetica above—before re-applying the proper typeface.

    Which, yes, I realize probably nobody will do. Still, I think it’s kind of an interesting little tic. Plus, it affects all WebKit-based desktop browsers I tested on, notably Safari and Chrome. Remove the @font-face assignment or the -webkit-transition, and the bug goes away.

    Granted, it’s no systemic rounding error, but hey: what is?

    This is a blog entry posted on day 11936 in the Journal.

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  3. Hypothetically speaking.

    Let’s just, y’know, assume that you had a lot of mass transit in your immediate future. Not me. You. In a purely hypothetical situation, o’ course.

    What movies, music, or TV shows would you bring along?

    This is a blog entry posted on day 11913 in the Journal.

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  4. The TV Show

    This is the song that never ends.

    This is a blog entry posted on day 11878 in the Journal.

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  5. Another World, ported to JavaScript

    I can’t tell you how much I played Another World in high school. So seeing a pure JavaScript-driven port to canvas? Simply amazing.

    On a related note, I’ll be over here sobbing into my stylesheets if anyone needs me.

    Visit this site →

    This is a link posted on day 11839 in the Journal.

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