RobbyEdwards.com…where I surf the intertubes for my own amusement

What happened at the IRS is the government’s essential business. The IRS case deserves and calls out for an independent counsel, fully armed with all that position’s powers. Only then will stables that badly need to be cleaned, be cleaned. Everyone involved in this abuse of power should pay a price, because if they don’t, […]

Very funny! Why am I just finding out about this now? (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Using Icon Fonts | Go Make Things Nice description of icon fonts and how to use them

government-service-design-manual/service-manual/making-software/progressive-enhancement Nice run explanation of progressive enhancement and the rationale behind it

A Rocket To Nowhere (Idle Words) Most of the really wrong design decisions in the Shuttle system — the side-mounted orbiter, solid rocket boosters, lack of air-breathing engines, no escape system, fragile heat protection — were the direct fallout of this design phase, when tight budgets and onerous Air Force requirements forced engineers to improvise […]

Funny commercial for the Nokia Lumia 920

Shirky: Social Software and the Politics of Groups Prior to the Web, we had hundreds of years of experience with broadcast media, from printing presses to radio and TV. Prior to email, we had hundreds of years experience with personal media — the telegraph, the telephone. But outside the internet, we had almost nothing that […]

Color Pickers – Nathan Speller Color picker that shows color palettes based on images from Dribbble

In defense of Tips for using <canvas>

“Hoodwinked Into Technological Dependency” One of the problems with the prevalence of solutions is it overvalues invention and undervalues behavior. We look for a gizmo, when changing how we act can have the desired effect. It seems like we’ve been hoodwinked into a trap of technological dependency. But, technology is only as good or bad […]

demosthenes.info – Vanishing Acts: The CSS :empty Selector Using the :empty selector

The single biggest fallacy I want to blow up is this utopian idea that there is this SINGLE thing called ‘The Cloud’. Each company today reinvents their own cloud. The Cloud as a concept is dead and has been for years: we are living within a stormy sky of cranky clouds, all trying to pretend […]