Category: G33K

Where I Learned It

14 Oct 2012

Between being a few days shy of two weeks post-op, and learning on the fly how to update my code to html5, my brain is fried. This is my first design attempt with html5, and of course I pulled out a few tricks with CSS3. When my braincells start firing again I will post some unique styling tricks, until then …

Thoughts on Collectives

08 Jul 2012

The other week I got my official rejection letter from the Clever Girls Collective. I honestly was expecting it as my anti-brand, radical, and old skool internet vibe didn’t seem up their alley. Their whole concept was just too amusing to pass up. So I applied for membership …

Playing With Opacity

04 Jul 2012

This tutorial is best viewed in Webkit, or Mozilla based browsers (i.e. ANYTHING other than Internet Explorer).

Opacity settings have existed in CSS since Internet Explorer 4 when Microsoft debuted their proprietary filters. Mozilla and Webkit based browsers started providing limited support for opacity filters by 2004. Now in the age of CSS 3, and HTML 5 there are …

Oatmeal and Allergies

13 Jun 2012

Last Thursday I got a nasty cough, which turned into some strange mega allergy attack. I’ve been living on Nyquil, cough drops, and I’ve been using lots and lots of tissues. Though I’ve been finding ways to stay entertained:
Oatmeal vs Funny Junk
If you haven’t heard of the Oatmeal, you just don’t know that you’ve heard of the Oatmeal. …

Ideas on Giving Back

03 Jun 2012

I want to give back to the design and blogging community. I have two very time intensive projects in mind, and would really like a sense of the level of interest.

WordPress Skeleton Themes

When I started using WordPress the only skeleton theme I could find was SandBox, and it was unwieldy. Essentially skeleton themes are WordPress themes stripped of …

The More Things Change . . .

02 Jun 2012

My sophomore year of college I lived on campus over the summer and was taking classes. I remember sitting in my tiny room on my Dell Desktop with my T3 connection. I didn’t have room, nor could afford a TV so I got a TV PCI card for my machine, and I wired the campus cable into it. I spent …

Layout Love = Elegant CSS

20 May 2012

It’s been about a year and half since I started tackling pure CSS layouts. This is my fifth attempt, and was by far the cleanest and easiest to make. There are no HTML or CSS errors, there are no sneaky work arounds to make the layout look like I wanted to.

Below is the divs for the current layout. #box centers …

Evangelion

13 May 2012

My first boyfriend was obsessed with Evangelion, and I thought he was stupid for liking big fighting robots. He admitted to liking the series for it’s big fighting robots and also being a lover of other Mecha anime. After we broke up I swore not to watch it because it …

The Amazing Politics of Buying Macs

29 Apr 2012

Since getting my first iBook in 2003 I have been an Apple convert. They own my soul, perhaps I don’t want children because they would have my first born anyways. However, I can’t help but be mystified by the specs and politics of buying a Mac. There is a …

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