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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,666 posts.
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Old People Icons That Don't Make Sense Anymore
The Floppy Disk Icon means 'save' for a whole generation of people who have ...
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GMail: designer arrogance and the cult of minimalism
It looks like Google has finally pulled the plug on the old GMail UI. There’s no more “revert to the old look temporarily” button, so I guess they’re finally forcing us lagg…
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Responsive Design Patterns
Through fluid grids and media query adjustments, responsive design enables Web page layouts to adapt to a variety of screen sizes. As more designers embrace thi...
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On Building Flipboard for iPhone
Flip flopping between bits and atoms
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About those vector icons
Why can’t we just use vector-based icons in our application? This question, in a variety of reinterpretations, keeps on resurfacing in various forums, blogs and articles. It is asked in the context of desktop applications where the same icon is used in different ways, starting from very small 16*16 icons in file…
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CSS px is an Angular Measurement
The “px” unit in CSS doesn't really have anything to do with screen pixels, despite the poorly chosen name. It's actually an non-linear angular measurement. The formulæ to convert between radians and px are as follows:
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An explanation of the CSS animation on Apple's iPhone 4S webpage
The "phone stage" (blue-bordered box) contains all 6 "slides" of the animation sequence and has a transition css property with a duration and timing function (a cubic bezier curve). For the phone stage to cycle from one slide to the next, its css transform property is updated with new translate and rotate values. At…
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Great, Another Bootstrap Site
Download Free PNGs & Free PNG images to use for your creative needs. ✓ Millions of high quality free png images ✓ Transparent pngs ✓ New Free PNGs added everyday.
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Please Steal These webOS Features
When Apple introduced the first iPad in 2010, I bought one immediately. I didn't know what I'd use it for, but I was sure that I would find some use for it. I never did. I played around with it, wrote some code for it, but eventually stopped using it. I would pick it up from time to time to read something or watch a…
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Splash screens == sloth
Bioinformatics, genomics, and Javascript
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Evolving an image out of polygons
Shareware games, New Zealand Game Developers Screaming Duck Software are the makers of the puzzle games Fitznik, Fitznik 2 and Drippy
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The Apple Voice
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.