All-Encompassing Trip

SkiFree! for iPhone

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:23:59 -0400

It’s free. The snow monster is an “upcoming feature”, though.

Quick workaround for Firefox’s cross-domain @font-face restriction

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 03:05:00 -0400

I finally got @font-face working on Firefox. Since it wouldn’t work with a font hosted on a different domain, and I can’t be bothered with modifying my Google App Engine application to send the appropriate access control headers, what I did was get rid of the cross-domain request entirely.

Instead, I used Font Squirrel’s @font-face Kit Generator, checking the “Base64 encode” option to encode the font within my CSS. I also used the “Subset Fonts” option to strip out unnecessary glyphs, leaving only the sixteen characters I actually need. Besides saving me one HTTP request, it saves some bandwidth, since browsers don’t need to download the entire font anymore. Internet Explorer still gets the full .eot file, though, but at least it doesn’t care that it’s hosted somewhere else.

You can’t use @font-face in Firefox with a font hosted on a different domain

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:12:00 -0400

FYI, before anyone else spends a few hours pulling their hair out and shouting profanities at Firefox.

If you want to specify a font for @font-face using an absolute URL, or a font hosted on a different domain, it needs to be served with Access Control Headers, specifically the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header set to “*” or the domains allowed to request the font. This also applies to fonts hosted on a different sub-domain.

I’d like to have the last two hours of my life back, please.

An easier way to edit your Tumblr theme’s CSS

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:51:00 -0400

Instead of copying & pasting your theme code back and forth on the customize page, or even worse, editing it directly there, copy your CSS to an external style sheet, put it in your Dropbox public folder, get the public address, and link to it in your theme. Now you can edit the CSS, and your changes will be reflected automatically in your theme as soon as you save the file, since Dropbox will upload it automatically each time you save it. After you’re done and you’re happy with your changes, you can copy the CSS back into the theme, or save the external style sheet to your own server.

I swear finding that baseball is the greatest thing that’s ever...

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:18:21 -0400

I swear finding that baseball is the greatest thing that’s ever happened to her. I just wish she’d let me play with it.

I don’t know where she found that baseball, but she won’t let me...

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:55:00 -0400

I don’t know where she found that baseball, but she won’t let me anywhere near it.

Safari 4, built entirely in HTML & CSS, by Joshua Jones....

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:02:00 -0400

Safari 4, built entirely in HTML & CSS, by Joshua Jones. (Via inky.)

I don't totally understand Tor.

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:07:00 -0400

It helps you access restricted websites in places with censored Internet. In a nutshell, instead of connecting directly to the blocked website, Tor connects you to a relay, which connects to a relay, which connects to a relay, and so forth, until it reaches an exit node somewhere where the access isn’t restricted. From the point of view of the Internet filter, you’re connecting to the relay, not the website, and from the point of view of the website, the traffic is coming from the exit node.

I love Tor. I love it so much.

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:37:12 -0400

I love Tor. I love it so much.

I really hate not being allowed to use HTML in the titles.

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:24:00 -0400

Please, stop escaping it, Tumblr.

Hoefler & Frere-Jones: “Four techniques for combining fonts”

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:16:00 -0400

Hoefler & Frere-Jones: “Four techniques for combining fonts”:

Is there a way to know what fonts will work together? Building a palette is an intuitive process, but expanding a typographic duet to three, four, or even five voices can be daunting. Here are four tips for navigating the typographic ocean, all built around H&FJ’s Highly Scientific First Principle of Combining Fonts: keep one thing consistent, and let one thing vary.

Beautiful examples. This is the kind of thing that makes me wish I had a ton of money I could blow on a font binge. (Via Matthew Buchanan.)

Good View, by Stuart Dixon. Simply breathtaking. I’ll die a...

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:12:31 -0400

Good View, by Stuart Dixon.

Simply breathtaking. I’ll die a happy man if I can take a photo as beautiful as this one in my lifetime.

guillephoto: Coit Tower &, from Hyde & Filbert...

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:06:18 -0400

guillephoto:

Coit Tower &, from Hyde & Filbert streets, during a great photowalk with nice people on a beautiful, rainy San Francisco afternoon.

Click through to embiggen it, and as usual, recommendations are most welcome.

Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:16:52 -0400

Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview:

It’s not even a beta; it doesn’t include a back button or an address bar, but it lets you preview some of the new CSS3 and HTML5 support in IE9. Sadly, it requires Windows Vista or Windows 7, so I can’t install it right now, but at least you can install it alongside earlier versions of Internet Explorer.

I feel like punching myself in the face.

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:13:33 -0400

I feel like punching myself in the face.

I think the point the cowardly fool wanted to make with regards to my english is that I...

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:08:27 -0400

I think the point the cowardly fool wanted to make with regards to my english is that I shouldn’t speak it because I’m venezuelan, and therefore I should only speak spanish. Considering he’s using “gringo” as an insult and that he sent that message after I posted a couple of news articles about Venezuela, I wouldn’t be surprised if he turns out to be one of those chavista goons that thinks being a cuban wannabe is somehow any better.

In any case, he can shove his anonymous comments.

Gringo wannabe, your english is really pathetic.

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:30:00 -0400

Hah, at least I’m not some chicken-shit who hides his name when insulting people, you coward.

Ten years ago, I was a gigantic douche. (Bonus tonedeaf cameo.)

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:19:00 -0400

Ten years ago, I was a gigantic douche.

(Bonus tonedeaf cameo.)

If there’s a better way to spend time in traffic than...

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:14:34 -0400

If there’s a better way to spend time in traffic than playing trololo in my dashboard, and singing along while making the same facial expressions to the other drivers, I’d sure like to know what it is.

Sometimes, I really love shuffle mode.

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:56:38 -0400

Sometimes, I really love shuffle mode.