RobbyEdwards.com…documenting the minutiae that is my life

Jul 16
2013

The Lorax and Company

My Scary Grinch Face

Cat in the Hat, Dr. Suess and My Girls

Jul 14
2013

Think Critical: Layered Glass, The Nothing UI

Think Critical: Layered Glass, The Nothing UI iOS 7 is not so much a blank canvas as it is an empty space waiting to be filled. The only thing the new design language says you can’t do is make UI’s the way developers have been making them for the last six years.

strat?chery by Ben Thompson | Friction

strat?chery by Ben Thompson | Friction Change is guaranteed, but the type of change is not; never is that more true than today. See, friction makes everything harder, both the good we can do, but also the unimaginably terrible. In our zeal to reduce friction and our eagerness to celebrate the good, we ought not […]

Jul 3
2013

Progressive enhancement is still important – JakeArchibald.com

Progressive enhancement is still important – JakeArchibald.com Jake Archibald provides plenty of reasons and rationales for progressive enhancement

Jul 2
2013

Achieving good legibility and readability on the Web

Achieving good legibility and readability on the Web Nice tips for well polished web typography

Progressive Enhancement: Still Not Dead. – That Emil

Progressive Enhancement: Still Not Dead. – That Emil Emil Björklund explains why progressive enhancement is still important

NewNet-Soft – CSS Typography cheat sheet

NewNet-Soft – CSS Typography cheat sheet Some advanced techniques for web fonts

Jul 1
2013

Grounds Zero: A Starbucks-Free Italy

Grounds Zero: A Starbucks-Free Italy parislemon: A few days ago, upon noticing something while traveling, I posed a question on Twitter: Are there really no Starbucks in Italy? Several folks responded that there are indeed no Starbucks in Italy — which still blows my mind. And a few sent the link above full of interesting […]

Jun 30
2013

What It’s Like to Get a National-Security Letter : The New Yorker

What It’s Like to Get a National-Security Letter : The New Yorker An interview with Brewster Kahle, the founder of the Internet Archive, one of a handful of people who have received a National Security Letter and had the accompanying gag order lifted.

Jun 27
2013

Ben Alman » Immediately-Invoked Function Expression (IIFE)

Ben Alman » Immediately-Invoked Function Expression (IIFE) A detailed explanation of JavaScript functions as expressions