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Reciprocality
I read about Reciprocality when I was working at helpdesk at Tennessee Tech years ago (perhaps linked from Slashdot?). It seemed really compelling, and I keep thinking of it from time to time.
I will periodically have thoughts like “what was that thing I read years ago that seemed to explain things and was kind [...]
Trey’s Philosophy of Link Design
Hovering over a link should always emphasize and never de-emphasize the link. Don’t make it harder to read! A visited link, if it changes, should be de-emphasized, but not so much so that you can no longer tell if it’s a link. It should be obvious what is and what isn’t a link.
The Problem with Shared Hosting
There’s been quite a bit of talk in the last few days about the state of shared hosting as it relates to the ever-so-popular world of web frameworks. I’ve struggled with this myself, and I understand that it basically amounts to the fact that this kind of web development is new. Newer than [...]
Whisker-tribute
For those that don’t know, I’ve been participating in Whiskerino (a beard growing “competition”) since the beginning of November. Whiskerino has a sister site, Vaginarino, that does parodies / tributes of photos from Whiskerino.
I am very excited that one of my photos got a tribute:
Software Licenses
In trying to decide which (open source) license to use for Yark, I wanted to see what other projects that I respect were using.
Here are some (listed alphabetically):
Django: BSD License Firefox: tri-licensed under the MPL, GPL, and the LGPL Git: GNU GPL v2 Haml: MIT License Linux: GNU General Public License Markdown: BSD-style open source license PHP: PHP License Python: Python [...]
