http://i.imgur.com/e7obs.png
― laughing stalk (diamonddave85), Friday, 8 July 2011 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
Read a blog post about grids. Saw a movie about Helvetica. Short. Terse. Sentences.
― laughing stalk (diamonddave85), Friday, 8 July 2011 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
TS: john gruber vs lieutenant gruber from 'allo 'allo
― Once Were Moderators (DG), Friday, 8 July 2011 22:42 (twelve years ago) link
Note that the UI screenshots are even set in Helvetica, not Arial. Some of the best evidence of good taste at Google I can ever recall.
RAGE!
― laughing stalk (diamonddave85), Friday, 8 July 2011 22:47 (twelve years ago) link
oops already posted X:
it cannot be mocked too often. the star was a nice touch.
― joe, Friday, 8 July 2011 22:49 (twelve years ago) link
I listened to some of his most recent podcasts during the week and was astounded by his and Dan Benjamin's claim that it gets 800,000 downloads an episode.
Err, what? Maybe it was some kind of belated rip on The Daily's iPad app but I think they were being serious. There's no way it's true, though.
― James Mitchell, Saturday, 9 July 2011 08:36 (twelve years ago) link
i think it's more like 400,000, but i could be wrong
800,000 was either the WWDC or post-WWDC download count iirc, but again, i could be wrong
― markers, Saturday, 9 July 2011 08:39 (twelve years ago) link
It's like his amazing high trafficked and revolutionary new sports website, which is actually a fucking tumble blog about baseball where you click on the notes to find less than half a dozen people 'liked' each post and fuck-all anybody reblogged anything, because why the fuck would you.
I'd rather read David Beckham's views on fonts an touch interfaces.
― James Mitchell, Saturday, 9 July 2011 08:41 (twelve years ago) link
are you kidding i'd TOTALLY read david beckham's views on fonts and touch interfaces
― unique housing opportunity (swanbed.gif) (govern yourself accordingly), Saturday, 9 July 2011 14:02 (twelve years ago) link
Dean Martin’s recipe for hamburgers. Sounds perfect. ★
nice commentary.
― laughing stalk (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 02:32 (twelve years ago) link
Sounds like... salted meat and a glass of bourbon
― mh, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 02:42 (twelve years ago) link
http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/markdown-discuss/2008-March/001163.html
-J.G.
― ILX Point Never (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 03:37 (twelve years ago) link
I give it a C-. Not up to the high standards of open source assholery established by the likes of Linus Torvalds. Canonical example http://lwn.net/Articles/249460/
― T.S. Eliot-themed roach fetish porn (silby), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 03:47 (twelve years ago) link
Yes, in August, Apple is going to start selling Lion on USB sticks. But I think most of us really will be able to get by without them. That’s why the USB stick installers are going to cost $69, a $40 markup over the App Store download. Apple wants us to go download-only.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 21 July 2011 08:44 (twelve years ago) link
Rather than try to one-up their selections I’m going to one-down them. Herewith, then, are the Top Ten Worst Westerns. Observations inside.
You can tell he’s right on most of these, from the posters alone.
god what a bore.
― caek, Thursday, 21 July 2011 11:37 (twelve years ago) link
dude is like a demigod of suburban consumerism, yelling so loudly about inane bullshit from atop a mountain of 'slightly used' apple products. good links sometimes tho.
― shaane, Thursday, 21 July 2011 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/07/20/scrollvetica
Scrollvetica.
SCROLLVETICA
― ILX Point Never (diamonddave85), Thursday, 21 July 2011 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
not to mention scroll reverser has been around since day 1 of the lion betas
― ILX Point Never (diamonddave85), Thursday, 21 July 2011 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
does it set yr scrollbars in helvetica
― markers, Thursday, 21 July 2011 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
Marco Arment is way worse; he's like distilled Gruber shit.
― stet, Thursday, 21 July 2011 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
lol i like both of them
― markers, Thursday, 21 July 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
It's a beautiful, simple and clean way of moving your fat fingers along the edge of the touchpad.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 21 July 2011 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
"Elegant" is the term I hate most from the doucherati.
― stet, Thursday, 21 July 2011 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
helvetigant
― ILX Point Never (diamonddave85), Thursday, 21 July 2011 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
One of my friends followed Marco on Ping for some reason. Marco's musical tastes are something to behold.
― Your Favorite Album in the Cutout Bin, Thursday, 21 July 2011 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
Lotta Phish, I guess.
― stet, Thursday, 21 July 2011 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
john gruber, newspaper pundit:
Just look at how uncluttered the print edition of The Times is, and how it’s designed to emphasize what is important.http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/07/27/news-site-design
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/07/27/news-site-design
http://www.nytimes.com/images/2011/07/27/nytfrontpage/scan.jpg
so uncluttered.
― joe, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
It would be much more simpler and eleganter if they made an app to display one story at a time and enabled users to three-finger swipe between pages, and they should hand over all their ad revenue to Apple for enabling such simpleness and eleganticity.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
I am trying to find a way to explain how the print version isn't really cluttered, but it's really the textbook definition of clutter
― mh, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
When you get paid to say things, it's hard to stop saying things.
― T.S. Eliot-themed roach fetish porn (silby), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
typeset nytimes in helvetica
― ILX Point Never (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
the essence of good taste
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 28 July 2011 01:17 (twelve years ago) link
I dig the nytimes chrome app
― flop's son (dayo), Thursday, 28 July 2011 01:51 (twelve years ago) link
the one thing that the chrome app and the ipad app do that the website does not is give me a one or two sentence blurb on what the article is about. no need to decipher what an article called 'Skin Deep: Someone Just Like Me Said, ‘Buy It’' is about
― flop's son (dayo), Thursday, 28 July 2011 01:52 (twelve years ago) link
found it p janky when i tried it a while ago
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 28 July 2011 02:28 (twelve years ago) link
maybe they dejanked it
― flop's son (dayo), Thursday, 28 July 2011 02:30 (twelve years ago) link
ok yeah its def p diff than before, but w/e not enough linx per page, needs more clutter
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 28 July 2011 02:33 (twelve years ago) link
thats cool all the diff views it gives you tho
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 28 July 2011 02:34 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ their names
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 28 July 2011 02:35 (twelve years ago) link
i prefer 'doric'
youre a doric
i think ur a doric
― flop's son (dayo), Thursday, 28 July 2011 02:37 (twelve years ago) link
'flow' is the best, welcome this new age future of web design
― flop's son (dayo), Thursday, 28 July 2011 02:40 (twelve years ago) link
serendipity is more my speed man
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 28 July 2011 03:01 (twelve years ago) link
so sad to see one of our own get left behind in the slipstream of now-future web design RIP :(
― flop's son (dayo), Thursday, 28 July 2011 03:05 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/
― markers, Thursday, 28 July 2011 03:08 (twelve years ago) link
past, present, and future rite there imo
indefensible: #4a525aholes
― ILX Point Never (diamonddave85), Friday, 29 July 2011 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
"Outlook", an email program from Microsoft. http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/08/04/google-email-preview
Six words and one set of scare quotes, all douchey. Would he say '"Word", a word processing program'? Outlook is one of the most used apps in the world. It's even out for Mac, ffs.
And why "program"? Is his house style now to ape newspapers from 1985? It's either a client or an app, though I suspect the style guide has had a douching to ensure "app" only means something that runs on iOS devices.
― stet, Saturday, 6 August 2011 19:54 (twelve years ago) link