Tim Brown

Luke Wroblewski: “In his How the Web Works talk at An Event Apart in Minneapolis, MN Jeff Veen dissected three key elements that make the Web work and how designers and developers can utilize them…

Unicode Codepoint Chart

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:32:09 -0400

Unicode Codepoint Chart

Unicode Lookup: convert special characters

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:08:33 -0400

Unicode Lookup: convert special characters

SimpleBits - Bye-Bye Redirect

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:08:33 -0400

SimpleBits - Bye-Bye Redirect:

Dan Cederholm: “I’m now running a crontab every five minutes that curl’s stream.simplebits.com and saves the HTML source to a temporary file on simplebits.com. The script then copies the temporary…

Category:Unicode blocks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:24:43 -0400

Category:Unicode blocks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

ASCII Character Map

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:24:43 -0400

ASCII Character Map

An Introduction to OpenType Substitution Features

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:46:54 -0400

An Introduction to OpenType Substitution Features:

“Simply adding a glyph with a ligature to your font doesn’t mean the program you’re using knows when or how to apply it. Whether you want your typeface to change the sequence of f|f|i into the…

Fake

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:38:13 -0400

Fake:

“Fake is a new browser for Mac OS X that makes web automation simple. Fake allows you to drag discrete browser Actions into a graphical Workflow that can be run again and again without human…

About font production

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:08:47 -0400

About font production:

Wonderful technical insight on the process of making font files, from Karsten Luecke Type Foundry.

So you want to be an epublisher

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:45:14 -0400

So you want to be an epublisher:

Jeffrey Zeldman: “What to write about, how to ensure quality, and how to identify and market to an audience are beyond the scope of this little post, but we can point to some dandy resources that…

Web browsing projects

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:18:00 -0400

I do different kinds of things as I browse the web, and I usually group these things topically by keeping related websites or pages open as tabs within a window. I may have several Safari windows open at once (Safari is my browser of choice, for most things), but each open window represents a different thought process. A different goal. A different project.

I’ve been roughly “saving state” by using Safari’s “Add Bookmark for These # Tabs…” command, saving the group in a Paused folder in my Bookmarks toolbar, and naming the folder with a date and description. I think of these as states of a project, although the project is actually a nebulous thing only held together by the descriptive text I use in naming the folders.

Just thought of another idea: I can quickly write a Tumblr post to sum up a particular project (or project state), and go visit that post in a tab before saving state on the window. Project notes. Bonus: titling the Tumblr post lets me minimize a project window and hover in OS X’s dock to browse active projects.

Sorry if this isn’t so clear. Wanted to share for posterity. And to follow up a tweet I wrote months ago.

The fake problems in infomercials

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 08:53:36 -0400

The fake problems in infomercials

The Mariana Trench To Scale [Pic]

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:15:57 -0500

The Mariana Trench To Scale [Pic]