December 2019

A cozy night in with Raymond Chandler.

Quite possibly the best-looking Disney film.

Looks like my reading material is sorted out for my bus ride to Philly tonight. twitter.com/waxpancake/sta…

@teleject @24accessibility You can see some of these concepts in action in my recent post on dynamic color. twitter.com/robweychert/st…

From @teleject and @24accessibility, an excellent crash course on color theory and accessible contrast ratios. 24a11y.com/2019/color-the…

I put the Sass typographic scale generator from my @24ways article into a handy gist: gist.github.com/robweychert/46…

Was it just one mischievous teenager and one gullible adult that started all you doofuses talking about how music “slaps”?

Modern fandom is little more than ravenous consumerism, and more than any other Star Wars movie, The Rise of Skywalker’s blockbuster maximalism is calibrated with this in mind. When I rewatched The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi the night before, it felt mostly like homework, and trying to summon anything else to say about The Rise of Skywalker feels about the same. Anyway, I’m done. Thanks for the memories, Star Wars, if not… See more →

just chillin while my magic mouse charges because why should design solve old problems when it can introduce new ones

I’ve been reading @24ways every December since 2005. Always wanted to contribute. This year, I did! 24ways.org/2019/a-modern-…

I’ve been studying music theory this year. While some of its core concepts were already familiar to me, much of their specifics were not. Or so I thought. A funny thing happened when I was learning the major scales. While playing through a song I had written some years before, I started picking it apart to see how it correlated with the theory I was learning. I had composed the melody without any thought to… See more →

Keeping this in mind for the next time I do something with color changing/fading over time: youtube.com/watch?v=hH_yvD…

Shoutout to @shauninman, who originally inspired this idea some 13 years ago: web.archive.org/web/2006110607… twitter.com/robweychert/st…

To give my site a sense of time and place, I’m generating a unique color scheme for every day of the last 30 years. v6.robweychert.com/blog/2019/12/d…

Sometime during the development of Tinnitus Tracker, it occurred to me that color would be a good way to give its many entries—which span nearly three decades—a sense of time and place. Colors would change with the seasons and fade over time. In effect, every single day of the past 30 years would have a unique color scheme, each day looking slightly different than the day before. As a bonus, the color’s constant flux as… See more →

Just in case the US presidential election season weren’t interminable enough, every election year is a leap year.

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“[R]estraining links through artificial scarcity is an absurdly coercive behavior.” anildash.com/2019/12/10/lin…

“I regret everything bad I’ve ever said about salad.” Double digit LOLs in this amazing 2015 piece from @ruthiebaron. medium.com/matter/lets-go…

so

tuesday

can we just not with the rain

Beautiful work from @fictivekin! 🍻 twitter.com/FictiveCameron…

Sometimes I really miss making stupid movies over sleepless weekends with my friends. /cc @iancorey @jasonsantamaria @joel_haddock @mSutters @skycommando

I was feeling like a slug earlier and the devil on one shoulder told me to skip this show. But the angel an the other shoulder was like, “This excellent band traveled all the way from Busan to play their music for you. Are you really going to deprive them of even one smiling face to greet them?” Thanks, angel.

I carry my expired coupon for a free milkshake with me like a photograph of a deceased child.

Didn’t listen to a ton of music this year, but my top artists are dominated by women and vagina slang, so 👍🏻