June 2012
5 posts
Text in Photoshop CS6:
Lurking in the darkest, deepest corner of Photoshop CS6 is checkbox and a text field that control the appearance of text antialiasing.
OK.
It’s a global option, not per document, and applies gamma correction to text layers, making them look thinner or fatter, depending on the value.
Sounds good.
Black remains black, white remains white, but the grey pixels, the...
May 2012
12 posts
“roughly 30 minutes of down time. That means email delivery, signups, and...”
– Service interruption for scheduled maintenance? Seriously amateur in this day and age, especially for a large scale email service. I’m a bit embarrassed now for having recommended MailChimp to clients. MailChimp Server Maintenance
“Basically, don’t set target-densitydpi unless you really know what...”
– Goldilocks and the Three Device Pixel Ratios - Martin Sutherland. Ain’t it nice when things (mostly) work the way they’re supposed to?
RubyMotion - Ruby for iOS →
I would’ve killed for this 4 years ago, because at the time I used Ruby daily and hadn’t written serious C code in years. But I’m extremely glad that RubyMotion did not exist then because I was forced to learn Objective-C, which is quite frankly an incredible development platform. The language and API are high-level enough to support serious productivity, but since it’s all...
“Justice Antonin Scalia took a “why even bother” approach, asking the solicitor...”
– The Lower Floor - NYTimes.com. A Supreme Court justice said that, from the bench?!? WJW.
“But the scientists who know endocrine disruptors best overwhelmingly are already...”
– How Chemicals Change Us - NYTimes.com. Why didn’t anyone tell me that thermal receipts are coated in BPA? And why the fuck haven’t we banned it yet?!? 