It’s A Crazy Mixxed Up Web
A lifetime ago, I worked for social news startup Mixx. If you follow that link, you’ll notice the website no longer exists; such is the startup life. Like all good startups, Mixx had a blog, a Twitter...
View ArticleYear-To-Date Reading Report (Mid-2015 Edition)
As best as I can remember, I’ve always enjoyed reading. I have my Mom to thank for that. Summers growing up were spent visiting the local library on a weekly basis and the school year seemingly...
View ArticleJoining LivingSocial
I’m pleased to announce that, next month, I’ll be joining the fine team at LivingSocial as their first Front End Architect. This will be a challenging new role for me; very different from my previous...
View ArticleFront-End Development is User Experience Design
I was speaking yesterday with a colleague of mine tasked with auditing a website. She, a user experience designer, is responsible for a great many things: facilitating client kick-off exercises,...
View ArticleAutomating SVG Icon Sprite Generation with svgeez
Last summer, Chris Coyier wrote a pair of really great articles on CSS Tricks detailing a technique for using SVG-based icon systems. Both posts are solid reads full of useful information. They’re...
View Articlenginx Configuration: Removing HTML file extensions and trailing slashes
I’m in the process of migrating most of my sites from a server running Apache to a newer host dishing out sites with nginx. Sorting out the differences in configuration between the two Web servers has...
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Inline SVG with PNG Fallback
In response to my recent article on SVG icon sprites, Russell asks: But my real question is how do you provide fallback support for SVG icons if the browser doesn’t support SVG? Russell asks an...
View ArticleCutting the Mustard Revisited
Three years ago, the team working on the redesigned BBC News website posted “Cutting the Mustard,” outlining their method for bucketing browsers based on capability. While JavaScript feature detection...
View ArticleNotes from “Designing for Performance”
I recently finished Lara Hogan’s brilliant and informative book Designing for Performance: Weighing Aesthetics and Speed. If you build websites for a living or work with people who do, stop what...
View ArticleTen Years of sixtwothree.org
Ten years ago today, at 10:03 pm EST, I launched the most-recent version of this site with a mandatory introductory post. Ten years. Quite a lot’s changed since then. This site is now hosted with...
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