Written on 29 December 2016, 02:12pm
I am working in a circular building, with the following dimensions:
– height – 30m (approximated, 8+1 floors)
– diameter – 48m (measured on Google Maps)
– coordinates – 50.842519, 4.385583 (retrieved via Google Maps)
I was recently wondering how many days of sunlight the inner court of the building gets every year.
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Written on 27 December 2016, 10:50pm
Tagged with: progressive enhancement, web design
I recently finished reading the excellent book Resilient Web Design, by Jeremy Keith.
At one point, in the 5th chapter, the author was discussing whether the websites should all look the same in every browser or not.
The answer – in the view of the Jeremy – is no:
New browsers and old browsers; monochrome displays and multi‐coloured displays; fast connections and slow connections; big screens, small screens, and no screens; everyone can access your content. That content should look different in such varied situations. If a website looks the same on a ten‐year old browser as it does in the newest devices, then it probably isn’t taking advantage of the great flexibility that the web offers.
Then I remembered about this manifesto of Barry Smith (not quite safe for work): (more…)
Written on 14 July 2016, 01:30pm
Tagged with: habits, productivity, tools
It’s time for a new post about the tools that I’m using. See previous posts:
2013
2014
Naturally, most of the applications are still there, but there are some changes:
I removed from the list Skype, CrashPlan, WinRar, Avira.
I removed from the list Wamp, Putty, Win Merge
Image resizer, GomPlayer and µTorrent are gone.