Paul McCann:
Nobody was sure where they came from. These are what came to be known as the ghost characters (幽霊文字).
I’ve been working with CJK characters for the first time for the Open House Macau website, and finding everything about these writing systems to be fascinating.
Dan Golding:
Across the entire franchise, there’s still an unmistakable sound to the music of James Bond. So why does James Bond sound like James Bond? And how do you write a new Bond song?
Played 22 July 2018 on Mac
I played it in fits and starts, but I was charmed every time, and always envious of the brilliant ideas on display. The design is just so economic and straightforward, yet presents so many possibilities for variation. Deserves to be in some design museum’s permanent collection.
Ben Porter, developer of MoonQuest:
So how can you take 7 years to make your game? Here are some important tips and tricks for taking your sweet time.
Rewatched 16 July 2018
I will never not be amazed that this movie exists. There is a very rare quality to the animation work here — you never forget it’s hand drawn, yet it’s always alive.
Jeremy Keith:
Frankly, the whole point of prefixed CSS is that is not used after a reasonable amount of time (originally, the idea was that it would not be used in production, but that didn’t last long). As we’ve moved away from prefixes to flags in browsers, I’m seeing the amount of prefixed properties dropping, and that’s very, very good. I’ve stopped using
autoprefixeron new projects, and I’ve been able to remove it from some existing ones—please consider doing the same.
Browser prefixes seem to be slowly going away. I stopped using Autoprefixer last year and haven’t missed it.
Jeremy Keith at Webstock 2018:
I also think we should remember the original motto of the World Wide Web, which was: let’s share what we know. And over the next few days, you’re going to hear a lot of amazing, inspiring ideas from amazing, inspiring people and I hope that you would be motivated to maybe share your thoughts. You could share what you know on Mark Zuckerberg’s website. You could share what you know on Ev Williams’s website. You could share what you know on Biz Stone and Jack Dorsey’s website. But I hope you’ll share what you know on your own website.
David Bryant Copeland writes a manifesto:
Brutalist Web Design is honest about what a website is and what it isn’t. A website is not a magazine, though it might have magazine-like articles. A website is not an application, although you might use it to purchase products or interact with other people. A website is not a database, although it might be driven by one.
A website is about giving visitors content to enjoy and ways to interact with you.
Game designer Jan Willem Nijman:
I gave a 4-minute talk at @AMazeFest about how making long games is unethical, watch it here
I love this idea:
We should all design our games like bus rides — they should have multiple stops along the way. If someone is happy with your game, they should be able to stop playing at that point. Give your game that ending after two hours. Give it that ending after ten hours for the people who want more of it and want to find all the secrets. Give it, like, the 100-hour ARG with speedrunning, trophy, whatever shit, but let people quit your game in a way that makes them happy.
Jeffrey Zeldman:
How can we tell which sites should be faster, and which should be slower? It’s easy. If the content is delivered for the good of the general public, the presentation must facilitate slow, careful reading. If it’s designed to promote our business or help a customer get an answer to her question, it must be designed for speed of relevancy.
Rewatched 30 June 2018
The first big shootout’s action feels a bit imprecise in a post-John Wick world, but that’s about all I can criticize. This is still a masterpiece in my book.