My girlfriend knows that I make websites but not a whole lot more about how I spend so much of my time. She at least knows the basics:
That's why I was shocked when she found my life in a FoxTrot comic! Here it is:
It's as if Bill Amend was in my head. Anyone else feel this way sometimes too?
Sooner or later you'll run across a regular expression. With their cryptic syntax, confusing documentation and massive learning curve, most developers settle for copying and pasting them from StackOverflow and hoping they work. But what if you could decode regular expressions and harness their power? In...
My first professional web development was at a small print shop where I sat in a windowless cubical all day. I suffered that boxed in environment for almost five years before I was able to find a remote job where I worked from home. The first...
GitHub seems to change a lot but not really change at all, if that makes any sense; the updates come often but are always fairly small. I spotted one of the most recent updates on the pull request page. Links to long branch...
A while back I debuted a tasteful mouseover/mouseout technique called link nudging. It started with a MooTools version and shortly thereafter a jQuery version. Just recently Drew Douglass premiered a jQuery plugin that aimed at producing the same type of effect.
It’s so true it’s frightening…
so true so hillarious.
Absolutely true, it’s like looking in a mirror.
You should see the follow up strip. It’s even better. (Btw, that’s quite an old strip. I am surprised you see it now.)
I feel like that just a little too often…
Please add that calling you an evangelist insults you, too :D
Eeek. Yeah, that’s about right ;)
I got my degree in design while learning web development on my own, which eventually evolved into my job now, so I think I have a pretty good balance but I definitely do have to fight off the design-skipping urge sometimes.
Lol this is great! That was me 2 years ago! Then i realized that the design is actually !important :)
Hilarious.
Spot on.
Someone is talking about a follow up strip.
Must….. ……see…… …….now!
ROFL
HILARIOUS
ha, so true
everything i’ve done that ends up looking good it’s because i
copiedmodified the design from something elsehaha. its funny.
thanks man. i bookmarked the website.
i found some other interesting stuff too.
I was literally just thinking about how great my Javascript web framework is when that image popped up! It didn’t even seem to load..
It’s Very Versatile Electronic Document – VVED.. get it?