Triptych

Seth’s Blog: Every monster has a big shadow

Administrator — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:22:04 +0000

A great post by Seth Godin. It seems very relevant to me – especially lately. When you look at your challengs square on, instead of running from them, they tend to shrink under the light of reality. Your own fears and imagination can take something small and make it overwhelming.

Here’s the post.

Building a javascript-based game for the web

Administrator — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 05:40:33 +0000

Found this from Ajaxian:

Here is the Aves Engine website.

This coming month is “Akihabara Month” for me.

Administrator — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 05:05:38 +0000

I’m dedicating my free time (what little there is of it) to creating a game using Akihabara. I will blog about my progress here, and eventually point to the finished game. A month seems like a reasonable amount of time to place in a small game, and it scratches an itch I’ve had for a very long time.

I also seem to have stumbled across some Akihabara tutorials. Hrm.

Be fearless

Administrator — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:43:26 +0000

I recently listened to a talk given by someone who proposed the idea that your life is driven by two forces. One is Fear, and the other Love. Fear arises when you anticipate a punishment for some course of action. Love however exists apart from fear. With love, your actions are completely accepted, you are free to be who you are, free to take risks, and free to be completely happy, healthy, and alive. Fear restricts, confines, and walls you in. This person proposed that these two forces are in constant conflict inside you – fighting for dominion over your life. You, however, can make the choice as to which force you will allow to have dominion over you. Does this sound too lofty and whoo-hoo? It doesnt have to be. Fear could make you not check in that code change because you think it might not be good enough. Fear might make you anxious and upset over little things all day, and effect your concentration. It can have a very real, tangible, and poisonous effect on your life. Love is “fearless”. Being fearless doesnt mean you jump in front of a train (that’s stupidity) it just means that if you live in “Love” you will find that things you thought were hard, or impossible to do will become much easier.

So, the task for today is to look at your life and find places where fear is guiding you — even unconsciously (I can’t go to that restaurant, I always eat at that other place) and replace it with “love”.

Do it yourself.

Administrator — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:25:41 +0000

I was talking to someone I respect highly about a group of people who are doing some interesting things online. They are working on a interesting project, and I mentioned it to this person as a way to say “you should reach out to them and talk”. Instead of the response I expected, this person encouraged me to talk to them myself. If I was interested in what they were doing, then I should take it on myself to chat with them and find out what they were doing. I was at first surprised at this, then I realized just how wise this advice is. Do you find yourself bringing other people together, but never really get involved yourself? I can see now that its a bit of a lazy way to try to move things forward, if you expect other folks to do it for you. Instead, make a decision right now to seek out people and situations you are interested in, and DO things. Instead of telling your friend about some charity work, YOU go do it. Instead of talking about some new programming language to a friend, YOU go learn it! It’s fine to bring other folks together, or to share interests, but it is easy to fall into the habit of just passing the bucket forward to someone else. It’s time for you to be in the front of the bucket brigade for a change

HTML5Rocks – Best Practices for a Faster Web App with HTML5

Administrator — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:50:26 +0000

HTML5Rocks – Best Practices for a Faster Web App with HTML5.

Ajaxian » The march to a more client-centric Web; Will the mobile Web, HTML5, and Chrome Web Apps be the tipping point?

Administrator — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:30:00 +0000

Ajaxian » The march to a more client-centric Web; Will the mobile Web, HTML5, and Chrome Web Apps be the tipping point?.

Freedom

Administrator — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:36:11 +0000

It would be a good thing to spend more time writing blog posts. For a while it seemed to make a difference in people’s lives a bit. Today I want to talk about freedom. How many little things do you do every day, that by themselves seem to have little consequence, but added up really keep you from having the time and space you need to really build something cool? Do you spend a few extra minutes checking your email? Do you have an elaborate lunch routine that leaves you only a few minutes to actually eat? I encourage you today to look at all the little extra things you may be doing that eat away at your free time. What if you did a little spring cleaning, only instead of your house or apartment you do it for your time? Why? because you will gain freedom. Freedom to work on the things you really want to. Freedom to choose how you spend your time. So, take a few minutes or hours, and do some spring cleaning of your time today.

Font-Embedding Icons

Administrator — Fri, 07 May 2010 18:04:32 +0000

Interesting article about embedding icons in a font and using them instead of images.
http://somerandomdude.com/articles/design-technology/font-embedding-icons/

It mentions the fact that you cannot use multi-colored icons, but I have an idea about that.

Imagine that you have a 4 color icon. You break that into “layers” where you have 4 icons with pixels where each color should correspond.
In the markup you create 4 divs that overlap. Each div contains one of the “layer” icons. In CSS you color the font for each layer to match the color of the intended layer in the icon. If you make sure the pixels overlap, then bam you get a 4 color icon!

Created my first Chrome Extension: Caltrain Schedule

Administrator — Fri, 07 May 2010 16:30:19 +0000

It’s really little more than a saved page, but I am always hunting around for it, that I thought I’d spend some time and create a little extension for it. I plan to add more things like saving your own schedule, other links, perhaps the @caltrain tweets, and more. I’m following my own “start small and revise” strategy. Will update the plugin as often as I can

Caltrain Schedule