Random Thoughts On Tech

My Ctrl + P shortcut key to pause Foobar2000 overlaps with FireFox's open up private tab feature. Only Foobar2000 pauses when I have the program open. I wonder if this has any consequences...

Pressing CTRL + SHIFT + M in FireFox lets you see how a website looks in a mobile resolution. You can specify any resolution you like and that part will be cut out in a simple frame. Nice! It looks like this site could use a quick responsive renovation though. In fact, it looks like all my sites could use a renovation...

I'm changing my views about responsive design completely. At first I thought it was bullshit, but now I'm thinking it's actually pretty handy. Sites that automatically adapt to fit any potential resolution is the future. So... which resolutions are next? Which pixel quantities should we predict for when we design our sites?

Some sites have started designing sites that look good only on mobile resolutions. They use huge images and text and sort everything in a single column that on a large monitor just looks huuuuuge and takes waaaay too long to browse. It's not easy reading text when an entire paragraph is at least 48px (but they're probably using relative sizes and don't expect it to ever be that large).

Sites are getting blander and blander, and it's the abnormal gigantic social communities that are steering the way with their focus on intuitive and usability... paving the way like a way is paved, with concrete. Concretely? To a boring Internet. Things really have changed since the GeoCities era... though you can download a 900GB+ archive of it here (it's compressed). I haven't attempted it yet, because of bandwidth speed limits and not even a total internal drive size on 1TB. That's a... lot of space....

I stumbled upon this site yesterday - turns out it's been going since 1998! It just might be the oldest online webcomic I've ever read. How's that for missed out nostalgia?

Looking through Maddox old pages from 1998 (that's where I stumbled upon the ^), I get inspired. I can do anything with the site. Why OCD and force yourself to think a certain way? When I have an impulse, better just do it, make a change, have some fun instead of just constantly devising ways to revise old content and get everything in order.

Ever heard of Lego's digital designer? That's all.