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Someone build a tool to calculate the time I spend trying to get a good rag on multiline code comments.
Every time I get an email from the Type Directors Club, I wonder what a type director is.
There is now no good way to filter your library by composer (among other useful data categories), which is a real bummer.
I get why Apple took the Artist/Album/etc filters out of the Songs view in the desktop version of Music (née iTunes) but I wish they hadn’t.
If we must have design competitions, let’s have more jurors like @danmall who are willing to look beyond the surface. danmall.me/articles/comma…
current status
I finally read @scottmccloud’s Understanding Comics and frankly I’m offended that no educator ever required me to read it.
Last week @funsize generously donated a week of great design work to @propublica. I’m excited to start developing the ideas they generated!
The books I read this summer.
Lynn is an evil genius and we do not deserve her. twitter.com/lynnandtonic/s…
Can anyone recommend tattoo artists who do architectural designs? Preferably in NYC, but I’ll travel to work with the right person.
I don’t know how CSS quantity queries escaped my notice for this long, but I am pleased to make their acquaintance. alistapart.com/article/quanti…
Trying inline SVG in CSS. Works in property/value pairs but Sass chokes when I try it in custom properties á la adactio.com/journal/15075. 😕
A great post from @simplebits on what he learned in his 10 years as @dribbble’s cofounder. medium.com/dribbble/what-…
Anyone have good examples of publicly available media organization brand guidelines? e.g. @GuardianDesign: design.theguardian.com
Oh, just reading The New York Times in my web browser.
When you jump right into code and it takes days for patterns to emerge which would have emerged in minutes on paper.
git branch clean-slate
Added a U.S. map to Tinnitus Tracker. As well as being an overview, it’s something I aim to fill in more. tinnitus.robweychert.com/state/
This is a progressive enhancement I wrote from scratch with vanilla JS. Easy for JS wizards, but I’m not a JS wizard, so I’m proud of it! twitter.com/robweychert/st…
Tinnitus Tracker now has audio embeds on show pages. Here’s an upcoming one I’m especially excited about: tinnitus.robweychert.com/2019/06/22/tor…
Links: April 2019
rumz.org v3
If Rumsey Taylor is not on your radar, this is an excellent opportunity to rectify that error.
Hindsight 2070: We asked 15 experts, "What do we do now that will be considered unthinkable in 50 years?" Here’s what they told us.
Most of these are more aspirations than likely outcomes, and one is included in a rather transparent attempt at ideological diversity (see if you can guess which one!), but an interesting collection… See more →
I sadly had to remove the texture on iOS due to a background-blend-mode bug. Please let me know if you spot issues in other browsers. twitter.com/robweychert/st…
Made improvements to Tinnitus Tracker’s dynamic color schemes (blog post coming soon) and added much-needed texture. tinnitus.robweychert.com
Any CSS aficionados know why CSS filters applied to <body> don’t apply to its background?
This CSS trick for fading siblings on hover is rad: trysmudford.com/blog/fade-out-…
I wish the example used the photo from Back to the Future. 🙃
These features currently only have IE/Edge support, which effectively vanishes when Edge moves to Blink. Hope more support comes soon. 🤞🏻 twitter.com/robweychert/st…
“[CSS] has introduced the same kind of hyphenation controls provided in layout software (eg. InDesign)” 😍 clagnut.com/blog/2395
If @iamrumz is not on your radar, this is an excellent opportunity to rectify that error. twitter.com/iamrumz/status…
Broke my glasses just before having headshots taken. Did the shoot without glasses, drew them on later with SVG, and randomized the colors.
Links: March 2019
You Are Not a Tool
To me, that combination of many things — of not being tied to one particular tool — is where the power often lies.
The Tragedy of Baltimore
In 2017, it recorded 342 murders — its highest per-capita rate ever, more than double Chicago’s, far higher than any other city of 500,000 or more residents and, astonishingly, a larger absolute number of killings than in New York, a city 14 times… See more →
Reading @zeldman’s Designing with Web Standards. twitter.com/ParissAthena/s…
Look at this gorgeous 3D paper lettering from Alia Bright! (via @Colossal) aliabright.com
Just this week I wrote about how @thetrocadero’s old handbills inspired the design of my new site. v6.robweychert.com/blog/2019/03/c…
“To me, that combination of many things — of not being tied to one particular tool — is where the power often lies.” brendandawes.com/blog/youarenot…
Thank you for reading! Pedantic but important distinction: the table markup is semantic and incidental to the layout. twitter.com/simoncoudevill…
Sophisticated Partitioning with CSS Grid
Create compelling grid patterns by harnessing specificity
Thanks to Tinnitus Tracker’s many browsing options, there are more than 1,000 lists of shows on the site, making the show list the most prevalent design pattern. It was clear from the start that this would be the case, and the design of event listings is something I’ve given a lot of thought as a designer and music fan, so it was the first thing I explored in early sketches and mockups.
My initial… See more →
In my dream, a homeowner said my website design influenced his decision not to sell to me. I woke up mid-explanation and it is killing me.
Links: February 2019
Hello, dear reader!
February is gone, but its links remain.
I owe you a belated “Happy new year!” since I failed to get this newsletter out the door the past two months. If you’re desperate to see the links that never made it to your inbox during those months, you can find December and January (along with every other edition) on my site.
In February, I finally launched Tinnitus Tracker, a live music diary I’ve… See more →
The great @vpieters walks us through the design process behind her beautiful new site. veerle.duoh.com/design/how-the…
This also marks my first use of @media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce), which results in a static image of the animation’s final frame. twitter.com/robweychert/st…
Had some fun animating gambling addiction, supporting the great reporting of @jasongrotto @sandhya__k @dmihalopoulos features.propublica.org/the-bad-bet/vi…
Pretty excited about the first post-launch update to Tinnitus Tracker: tinnitus.robweychert.com/2019/05/28/bjo…
Hello Design Twitter, please tell me your favorite resources for finding freelance illustrators from underrepresented groups.
Everyone please continue making colorful geometric confections and I will continue admiring them. thisiscolossal.com/2019/02/new-pi…
I did it. I made the most Rob Weychert thing. tinnitus.robweychert.com
Introducing Tinnitus Tracker
My live music diary is now a website.
In the spring of 2015, Last.fm, a social site that tracks users’ music listening habits, gave subscribers a sneak peek at its upcoming redesign. The first thing I noticed was that the Events section, which I had been using for a decade to catalog the shows I went to, was gone. It was reinstated when the redesign was publicly unveiled a few months later, but the temporary evaporation of my data was a good reminder:… See more →
Links: January 2019
The Leaked Louis C.K. Set Is Tragedy Masked as Comedy
Over the years, C.K.’s comedy evolved, as any comic’s will, but at their best and most well known, his jokes were about interrogating himself as a means of interrogating American culture. As C.K. shuffled uncomfortably on stages and sets, clad in rumpled T-shirts and slouchy dad jeans, he served as his own act’s useful idiot: C.K., author and character at once, played the privileged guy… See more →
That Was 2018
The highlights of what I took in and put out
A lot happened in 2018. The ruinous Trump administration continued doing its ruinous thing. I finally deleted my Facebook account. I had a stressful couple of months caused by something that rhymes with “head hugs,” which I would gladly trade the life of any loved one to avoid going through again. I visited the UK for the first time. I published 33 blog posts, including several well-received posts on design and development.
Projects
Let’s check in… See more →
Also worth keeping an eye on @SaraSoueidan’s series on SVG filters: tympanus.net/codrops/2019/0…
Clever techniques for manipulating color with CSS filters and SVG filters: css-tricks.com/the-many-ways-…