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Dec 19

Body copy guidelines

I just sent the following email to some cow orkers. It took me ages to dig up the links. It always takes me ages, so I’m blogging it as a bookmark.

Here are two excellent references for my religious perspective on typesetting and layout of body copy. It will take you less than 10 minutes to read both articles, I promise. You will:

• Discover why you feel drained after a lot of browsing.
• Inspire you to make Hetzner’s copy a relaxing pleasure to read.
• Discover a browser plugin that transforms your experience of reading through a web browser.

Better argument than the article below, and more recent. But only covers font size. You have to read beyond the guy’s marketing bias to recognize that what he’s saying applies even to transactional body copy.

Goes beyond font size. Rocked my world back in 2006. The web should be this way.

Once you’ve read this stuff and gotten inspired for the future and depressed for the present… You can get an idea of what the world wide web might be like if everyone followed these guidelines, by checking out an awesome browser plugin/addon called Readability.

I guarantee you, it’ll increase your attention span, and suck your soul out through your eyeballs less. Or your money back. ;-)

Dec 06

Setting HTTP Referer with capybara

Because it took me an hour to find out… To set the HTTP Referer for a request in a cucumber step definition using capybara with the default driver (Capybara::RackTest::Driver):

referer = 'http://example.com/'
Capybara.current_session.driver.header 'Referer', referer
visit '/'

Note that this persists for the remainder of the session. If you know how you’re supposed to unset an header, please be nice and leave a comment.

Dec 05

Landmark moment. I finally wrote some decent code.

Nov 17

The Emo Divinyls

I cut myself
I want you to cut me
When I’m feelin’ down
I want you above me
I search myself
I want you to find me
I forget myself
I want you to remind me

I don’t cut anybody else
When I think about you
I cut myself

Nov 08

Oct 27

Oct 19

I got a Roland A-800PRO MIDI Keyboard Controller for my birthday! So excited!

Oct 17

“I will never apologize for the United States of America, I don’t care what the facts are.” — George H. W. Bush on the United States military shooting down an Iranian airliner, killing 290 civilians. And people thought his son was the idiot.

(Source: TIME)

“The Sabbath Manifesto is a creative project designed to slow down lives in an increasingly hectic world.” — Sabbath Manifesto

Oct 14

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