February 2018

Hello dear reader!

February is gone, but its links remain.

My site was pretty quiet in February, up until yesterday when I published the final post in a series about the process behind my redesign. This one is about color, and the recent revelations I’ve had about how to work with it.

This month’s links have the usual range of topics, with the highlight for me being a treasure trove of interviews and demos on… See more →

If you’re a designer who, like me, has struggled with color, this is for you. twitter.com/robweychert/st…

I wrote about how my site’s recent redesign handles color. Color theory, HSL, and Sass, oh my! v6.robweychert.com/blog/2018/02/v…

In my work as a designer, color has never been my strong suit. I often try to avoid dealing with it entirely (as seen in the previous version of my site). Through education and experience, I’ve picked up the basics of color theory and mostly avoided catastrophe, but my rudimentary process has been anything but reliable.

My V6 redesign seemed like a good opportunity to try to improve my color game, since my site is… See more →

Fun fact: Sean Connery, who played Harrison Ford’s father in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, is only 12 years older than Ford.

I’ve never had a complete stranger for a roommate, and I think I’ll stay the course. nymag.com/daily/intellig…

I love how @brendandawes documents his creative process in small books compiling Git commits, screenshots, and more. brendandawes.com/blog/gitbook

“How can the quintessentially rationalist faith of liberalism flourish in an age that […] demeans rationality?” theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Here’s @michaelianblack succinctly and eloquently making an extremely important point about our broken masculinity. nytimes.com/2018/02/21/opi…

Listen (shh) to what the flower people say
Aahhh
Listen, it’s getting louder every day

Loving @mSutters’s illustrations in @kevinmhoffman’s new book, Meeting Design, which promises to be excellent. rosenfeldmedia.com/books/meeting-…

Robert Forster did this movie the same year as Jackie Brown!Khrystyne Haje (Simone from Head of the Class) had no such luck.

Can’t say I regret watching Corey Haim save his high school from terrorists, and I will now watch him do the same for his university.

Alan Thicke is the police chief. He just said “I suggest you think with your heart instead of your badge.”

Amazon Prime’s unparalleled selection of schlock spans many decades. On the docket tonight: Corey Haim saves his school from terrorists.

Weekend escapism.

Ugh. Why undermine the case against guns with misleading stats when the actual stats are already beyond horrific? twitter.com/washingtonpost…

I always want to give the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse non-threatening dude names. Cody, Dylan, Tyler, Jaime. twitter.com/gjhead/status/…

I have inadvertently tuned my ears to the office’s coughing/sneezing/sniffling frequency, and now all I hear is pestilence.

Scheduling a disciplinary hearing for Adobe Illustrator. Let me know if you’d like to attend.

.@eddieizzard on guns, 19 years ago.

💡 Great tip: to test fallback CSS in modern browsers, misspell a feature query:

@supports (display: ggrid) { … }

youtu.be/dQHtT47eH0M

Early to bed
Early to rise
Fire up the bandsaw
Let’s redden some eyes
🌈

One time I saw an angry internet man unironically refer to another angry internet man as his “colleague.”

I won’t pretend I’m immune to palace intrigue, but paying any attention to Omarosa—let alone putting stock in her commentary—demeans us all. twitter.com/washingtonpost…

Here’s to petulant dorks tweeting indignant screenshots of people blocking them, as if it reflects badly on the blocker, not the blockee. 🥂

I guess @d_carson_design is making music now? open.spotify.com/artist/1RtQ5z4…

Update: the Zebra Cakes are gone. ✌🏻 twitter.com/robweychert/st…

I could watch @donttrythis’s giddy tour of @aardman all day. And there are enough videos to make that possible! youtu.be/stSYs7a2UHE

In the U.S., “abstinence-based sex education remains the norm […] online porn fills the vacuum, making porn the de facto sex educator.” twitter.com/nytimes/status…

I randomly bought a box of Little Debbie Zebra Cakes last night and I’m not finding a compelling argument against eating them for breakfast.

In a weekly average of 23,077 violent crimes, “the White House only found two crimes linked to immigrants in the country illegally.” twitter.com/washingtonpost…

“It’s like designing a house so it’s easy to build, instead of setting up cranes typically used for skyscrapers.” frankchimero.com/writing/everyt…

My week.

“They concluded that Steele’s sources […] had no discernible reason to deceive the small intelligence firm.” washingtonpost.com/politics/hero-…

Everyone please continue making colorful geometric confections and I will continue admiring them. thisiscolossal.com/2018/02/lauren…

“Above all, my old iPad has revealed itself as a cursed object of a modern sort. It wears out without wearing.” nytimes.com/2018/02/06/mag…

“Hey, remember when we added a 47% fee to these tickets? Fun, right? Wouldn’t it be even more fun if you helped us double our money?”

This @business game is a fun way to learn about how and why retail is dying. Try to keep a mall in the black! bloomberg.com/features/ameri…

Trump, Inc is a new podcast from @propublica and @WNYC digging into the president’s opaque conflicts of interest. wnycstudios.org/shows/trumpinc

Has anything good ever happened because of the Greek system rather than in spite of the Greek system? twitter.com/washingtonpost…

“You could spend a million dollars on a piano part and it won’t make you a million dollars back.” vulture.com/2018/02/quincy…

“[T]he wound collector never has to go far to feel victimized.” Unpacking the alt-right’s growing body count. splcenter.org/20180205/alt-r…

I’m looking forward to learning more and adapting to Grid’s way of thinking, but this first obstacle is a surprise and a bummer. twitter.com/robweychert/st…

Tinkering with CSS Grid. Does grid-gap not accept fr values? I want my gutter widths to be relative to my column widths.

Hey, what’s everyone doing tonight? I assume, like me, you’ll all be bingeing the Murdoc episodes of the original MacGyver series.

It’s one of those afternoons where I don’t really understand why people make music that doesn’t sound like @AndrewWk.

In my dream, the shelter explained that the kitten I found was an escaped virtuoso reggae drummer. They had an illustrated book about her.

I beat this drum a lot, but if you love movies, you need to be on @letterboxd. And their newly-updated iOS app is 🥇 itunes.apple.com/app/id10542710…

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My collected links from January: v6.robweychert.com/blog/2018/01/l…