Peter Wilson

Archives: Notes

  • Scroll magazine has been relaunched by @webdirections, features some excellent writers and your’s truely. https://twitter.com/webdirections/status/717879688375324672

    • We’re no longer building pages, we’re building systems and complex networks.
    • RWD is not about individual device classes
    • Devices have become more complex, multiple input methods, various screen sizes
    • New interactions models are been created all the time
    • I’d like to tell you I have perfectly formed solution, I do not.
    • Laziness is bad. Well, maybe it’s more complex than that; maybe it’s a virtue.
    • We have a lot of tools available to allow us to be lazy.
    • eg: nth-child for grids rather than including the grid in the html
    • Modern frameworks come with baggage.
      • They work of a predefined grid
      • Stock breakpoints
      • It’s hard to know if they’re useful for the expanding device market.
    • Think about content, context rather than devices you can design for products that don’t yet exist.
    • Disney made animation beautiful, it made it real and life like.
    • Disney defied language to describe their work, allowing to them to keep high standards.
    • If we think about the characteristics of design rather than of the page, columns, roles, it allows you to support the design.
    • Describe the challenges of a site, this allows the break points to be defined.
    • Rather than CSS frameworks, define vocab frameworks to make our sites fit.e
    • RWD navigation is not a solved problem, they rely on the content.
    • As an industry, we have a problem with the hamburger.
      • It’s not working as well as we think it is.
      • Time magazine added about a thousand items of help text to their hamburger. This suggests it didn’t test well.
      • Disney added a hamburger icon to use the same off-screen navigation pattern
      • Behind the hamburger, we put all the shit we couldn’t be bothered to deal with. We avoided the ard discussions.
    • Other, arguably better, design patterns exist for navigation
      • The BBC shows/hides nav items as they fit on their screen
      • The Guaniad scrolls their navigation
      • The Filament Group changes their nav on content driven pages to a more subtle version than their home page.
    • If we look for opportunities to be lazy with nav, we can focus on other parts of the page, other features. For example animation.
    • We can design of the basic elements and enhance with animation
    • This does mean we need to build up from the basics, add enhancements. Design two, three or more interfaces. This doesn’t appear lazy.
    • The laziness comes from designing defensively for the web. Designs will work for multiple devices.
    • The BBC have done this with the cutting the mustard test.
    • They track two broad responsive experiences. It’s lazy and Ethan lves it.
    • Approach a site with questions, even if you have solved the problems before. Like a beginner.
    • Doing a little less will allow us to do a little bit more.

  • I deny this. https://twitter.com/developerjack/status/717653909683109888

  • Playing seat selection offence has worked again, the neighbouring seat is vacant, again. MEL ✈️ SYD

  • Nice to see the council getting in on the @batlabels joke.

  • Americans are talking about basketball, a lot.
    It is March.
    Survivor is airing.

    @jeffprobst, I am scared.

  • Happy Birthday @karenmcgrane.

    (Everyone, Karen would like water. I reckon we can do this https://my.charitywater.org/karen-mcgrane-1/forty-four-on-4-4-for-water-for-all)

  • “Can you set yourself as the scales’ admin, they keep emailing me to change the batteries?”

  • Tempted to write some sarcastic guides to development: lesson one, redirecting eight times when someone visits your site. Hashtag soc med.

  • A week trying not 12to check 12to email is beginning 12to freak me out.

  • Tavern’s law: for any post with over ten comments, mark-k will repost that same comment about emoji he always posts.

  • I am the gatekeeper, CSS font-face properties https://css-tricks.com/whats-deal-declaring-font-properties-font-face/

  • My new shaming site is why didn’t you bring any colouring books for your kids and why are you letting them run around the cafe yelling .com

  • It’s me.

  • git fetch
    git checkout bed063c67
    cd ../
    git commit -m “Update WP to 4.5-rc1 (if you were a good person, you’d do this too)” wp

  • Thanks @maddisondesigns for the new profile pic from my presentation at Be Responsive.

  • When you’re listening to a song and think “I remember what it was like to be 22”. And then realise you don’t.

  • add_filter( ‘the_content’, array( $wpcom, ‘apostrophe_s_dangit’ ) );

  • Trying out office spaces this week, @teamsquare today and checking out an agency with a spare desk later in the week.

  • Subtweets.

    (Subtweeting myself because it’s easier and deals with multiple issues at once)

  • Proud to have joined the team at @humanmadeltd.

  • Did @StackOverflow‘s ninja/rockstar options include “if you really care about diversity, stop propagating damaging masculine stereotypes”?

  • Oh Melbourne.

  • I’m speaking at WebDirections Respond next month, as usual it’s an impressive line-up. See you there. http://www.webdirections.org/respond16/

  • Rock’n’roll

  • @js_bin Sorry, looks like I thoughtlessly triggered your ddos controls. My bad. http://www.webpagetest.org/result/160313_W8_2VQ/

  • Misfiled in non-fiction.

  • Everyone should be lucky enough to have a friend like @maddisondesigns.

  • Is it acceptable to put a ten minute pun run in the middle of a tech talk? Asking for a friend.

  • Spending the day reading specs (rock on) so I can accurately lie to you at Tuesday’s @beresponsiveio http://www.meetup.com/Be-Responsive-Melbourne/events/229121091/

  • And dates. Dates are hard too. https://travis-ci.org/aaronjorbin/develop.wordpress/jobs/112718838#L1305-L1319

  • This, and when it happens in a few years time all devs owe Mat, Tab, et al dinner in their city’s finest restaurant.

    https://twitter.com/scottjehl/status/703298282773225472

  • While Cory B & George C will go down in history as homophobes, LGBTI kids may go down in history at all. For what? http://m.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/there-is-nothing-dangerous-about-the-safe-schools-coalition-20160224-gn2yrn

  • I’ll be speaking about performance and working with HTTP2 at Be Responsive on March 8th. http://beresponsive.io/

  • Important

  • #3051pride

  • Listening to some Nina Simone tunes while preparing dinner to celebrate her birthday.

  • Speaking of entitled, sitting over a cafe brekky debating @carlhancock on the definition of entitlement using an iPhone is pretty much it.

  • #3051pride

  • Look up.

  • many http2 server implementations have server push in beta. multiplexing is still ?. the more i research http2, the more fascinating it is.

  • No, not at all.

    https://twitter.com/abciview/status/699751829421162496

  • I’ve started giving other regulars at the library nicknames. Wondering if other people do that.

  • Forklifts operating in area.

  • #hmgoes to #webstock