Blogging and all that Malarkey

When I set up my home/office wireless after switching broadband providers, I called the downstairs router’s network ‘Planet Of The Apes.’ And why not? ‘Andy Clarke’s Network’ is a boring name. (And Planet Of The Apes is a better movie than Star Wars.) Then I called the Airport Extreme extended upstairs network ‘Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes’ and the Airport Express I keep under my desk ‘Beneath The Planet Of The Apes.’ I bought a mifi today because I’m working in London a fair bit over the next few months and the client site doesn’t have open wifi. I could stick with the network’s given name, 3MobileWiFi-c602, but ‘Escape From The Planet Of The Apes’ seems much, much more appropriate.

I’ve worked for myself for the last fourteen years and for most of that I’ve worked in my office at home.

Faruk Ate? in Opera Confirms WebKit Prefix Usage:

A lot’s changed since I wrote the original ‘320 and Up’ — my ‘tiny screen first’ responsive web design boilerplate — one year ago.

It’s been almost three years since I launched, what most people thought of as the bat-shit crazy Universal Internet Explorer 6 CSS stylesheet.

I’ve been working on a small travel site over the last few weeks and came across an interesting responsive web design challenge.

If you’ve been using Twitter and the Twitter app for iPhone for a while, you’ll probably miss having access to your direct messages in the toolbar since Twitter replaced it with the ‘discover’ button (whatever that does.) Don’t worry, because some friends of mine who work at Twitter in San Francisco showed me a way to unlock a hidden power user mode that puts DMs back in the toolbar.

When I upgraded my phone to an iPhone 4S it instantly took over as my main camera. I use Camera+ and ProHDR, olloclip lens attachments and POPA and I couldn’t be happier with the results I get.

This week I was sat in a hotel in London and uploaded at photo to Instagram. It was a kangaroo I met a couple of weeks ago at a sanctuary near Brisbane. It’s a half decent photo. OMG! KANGAROOS ARE SOOO CUUUTE! But posting the photo felt wrong. I know plenty of people who post Instagram photos from weeks or even months back. But Instagram isn’t Flickr and photos on Instagram should be from today, or at a push from yesterday. You know. Like insta(nt). Anything else is a Delayagram ™.

You know those responsively designed sites where — on small screens like smartphones — navigation is either hidden or set at the bottom of a layout, then revealed when you click a button? Well, I think we need a standard ‘show navigation’ icon for that button in responsive web design.