toddmorey

The proxies run on their CDN servers as I understand. I was just playing around with the proxy setup a bit to experiment, but I do plan to use this approach in a project if it proves successful.

Netlify is awesome--far and away the best option for static content that I've found, and very developer-focused. There's a big list of pleasant surprises as you work with their platform: * Y…

Netlify is awesome. Can even run a build process (similar to github pages) but using just about any static site generator. [1] https://www.netlify.com …

Perfectly legal and perhaps a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders in some respect.

The most important thing is that learning other languages and frameworks really helps expand your perspective. It's fascinating and fun to learn how another framework in a different language solv…

One quibble: there are way more than 'CSS' changes here. They removed extra wording, removed the CAPTCHA, and generally reorganized the window.

"A long web page means you have failed to organize your site properly." I think this is outdated. Longer homepages—ones that scroll down and appropriately present the content with good flow,…

I think looking for one single cause in any complex transformation is a bad idea, but like most myths, it's an exaggeration of a kernel of truth. An equality frustrating myth is the idea that pur…

They are also very dangerous: they combine people getting off the highway with people accelerating to get on with people entering and leaving those shopping centers and restaurants. It really creates …

The data feels totally made up, but more importantly, I think the conclusion is a huge mistake: time per table has doubled from one hour to almost two hours, and the single culprit is the smart phone.…

There's another question that we are starting to battle recently: how much actual capacity can we honestly add to the road system? Near my parents' home, there's an intersection of a 18…

Exactly. It's not amazing, but if that's the darkest corner of your UI, I actually think you are in pretty good shape. You should have seen the pages I stumbled into on the Avis site.

I think the subtle tilt-to-scroll paradigm, if it works well, could become widely adopted. It seems to make one-handed scrolling much more approachable without any fingers obscuring content. Question:…

A $2 application that I found before I knew about this one is GraphicalHTTPClient (available in the app store). Not as feature rich, but I've really found it handy

OK, so I think I understand Facebook un-bundling into separate apps. But this feels like an extremely focused app slicing even thinner. (We've moved from selling albums to selling singles to sell…

I think his point is comparing how easy / intuitive each interface is to learn. Besides, UI is supposed to be an aid not a puzzle.

I actually think this is their best effort yet. Firefox on Mac has always felt bloated and foreign to me. But this release pretty much eliminates all of that. While it's not perfect, it's th…

Whoa, that's ridiculous. As the most public embodiment of the organization, wouldn't Mozilla's policies of equality ring hollow if they'd left him in place? His values did not alig…

I agree with you. I think people have diversified. Office isn't going away, but their prolonged absence on other platforms opened some doors that they can't close again. I've seen much …

That's a really dangerous takeaway. I've wondered, too, if being an asshole is a business advantage. Here's what I've learned: 1. This approach only amplifies whatever ideas you fe…

Love to see this out there, but it seems to suffer from the same visual clutter that I believe Evernote does. I love the OCR technology of Evernote, but I have the hardest time with it as a writing en…

Interesting to see the differences between InstaClick and Pjax. InstantClick - InstantClick is a little easier to implement, with nothing required server-side - InstantClick works to reduce late…

The demo of checkout available at https://stripe.com/checkout uses a canvas element for the demo animation. It's a really well done walkthrough. Was it entirely custom-coded or d…

That was my thought as well. Turns out it's just decoration that "bleeds" over the edge of the screen. But it really does look like content to scroll towards.

But in fairness, they've fully listed the data being collected. I'm actually very comfortable with them collecting these metrics (though I'm glad there's a way to turn it off just …

The magic of this technique is that mechanically and reliably takes impossible tasks and makes them actionable. All that's required, you tell yourself, is 20 freaking minutes. I can do that. Anyo…

There are some technologies or methodologies that can and should be easily swapped out for better solutions. But as your career continues, you'll find that you are _always_ learning, and in that …

Well, to be fair, Middleman translates authoring files (sass, yaml, haml, etc) into ready-to-publish static assets. It can also be wired to liveroad so that it instantly updates what you see in the br…