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?
For maximum performance, we all know we must put our assets on CDN (another domain). Along with those assets are custom web fonts. Unfortunately custom web fonts via CDN (or any cross-domain font request) don't work in Firefox or Internet Explorer (correctly so, by spec) though...
Back in late 2012 it was not easy to find open source projects using requestAnimationFrame() - this is the hook that allows Javascript code to synchronize with a web browser's native paint loop. Animations using this method can run at 60 fps and deliver fantastic...
One of the great parts of MooTools is that the library itself allows for maximum flexibility within its provided classes. You can see evidence of this in the "Class" class' implement method. Using the implement method, you can add your own methods to...
While improvements in browsers means more cool APIs for us to play with, it also means we need to maintain existing code. With Firefox 4's release came news that my MooTools LazyLoad plugin was not intercepting image loading -- the images were loading regardless of...
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?