PixelPhones

Whilst strolling around on Seb Lee-Delisle‘s GitHub account, I noticed he pushed PixelPhones to it 5 days ago. (Photo source: flickr/johansterenberg) Seb’s PixelPhones project is one of the most amazing things I’ve seen at Fronteers’11 ever: use your mobile device to visit a webpage where a connection is opened to the PixelPhones server (via a …

Pinterest’s div stacking layout algorithm

The number of columns adjusts to fit more/less on browser resize and the vertical stacking is not dependent on adjacent column heights. The source code shows that each div is positioned absolute. I would love to know how to accomplish this. What technology is used to generate pinterest.com’s absolute div stacking layout? →

Please Steal These webOS Features

When Apple introduced the first iPad in 2010, I bought one immediately. I didn’t know what I’d use it for, but I was sure that I would find some use for it. I never did. I played around with it, wrote some code for it, but eventually stopped using it. So when I bought a …

What We Don’t Know

On any given request for our website there are loads of unknown factors. One of the more obvious unknowns is the browser. There are lots of techniques and tools we can use to ensure good experiences across any browser. But we also don’t know about the person. Who are they? Where to they live? What …