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Could we kill the icon?
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Joe Critchley is writing on the Svbtle. October 3, 2013. Could we kill the icon? Moving away from abstracted and physical representations, and more towards our digitally native environment. When it comes to user interfaces, I don’t care too much for the concept of. Anymore. It’s become too ambiguous, and the conversations surrounding the term tend to focus on textural skins and theatrical graphics. On the interface. I posted the question on Twitter:. No magnifying glasses for search; no cogs for settings.
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“Portals” in React.js
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Joe Critchley is writing on the Svbtle. July 8, 2014. Ldquo;Portals” in React.js. Another day, another bit of terminology made up by me.). Portals is a pattern that I’ve recently tried in a React project, which allows a component to control another part of the existing DOM entirely. This is currently a one-time experiment. It is an extension of the ReactLayeredMixin. Document.getElementById(this.props.portal). It’s actually quite similar to. In Ruby on Rails views and layouts. Blog Over Bird #2. Alright,...
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Blog Over Bird — #1
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Joe Critchley is writing on the Svbtle. June 30, 2014. Blog Over Bird #1. Even though we do have Twitter, I miss the days of the informal blog. I figured I’d give myself a break from tweeting for a few days, to see how many valuable points I can put out there. It provides the best of both worlds for this situation. Directive: https:/ gist.github.com/joecritch/476806f0174ed74791ec. NQ: Guilty By Association. Anyway, it’s a great addition to the Northern Quarter. Check it. Idea: time-based to-do list.
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6 apps for simple living in San Francisco
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Joe Critchley is writing on the Svbtle. November 15, 2014. 6 apps for simple living in San Francisco. In San Francisco, it’s pretty easy to conduct your life from the palm of your hand. For three months, I got the chance to live the simple life. Depending on how you look at it, this is either super convenient or excruciatingly lazy; but either way, here’s the apps that are at the top of the pile. Healthy food, rapidly delivered. Revealed quite a lot. Restaurant food, delivered. San Francisco’s quality re...
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Duties
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Joe Critchley is writing on the Svbtle. September 29, 2013. Defining ourselves not so industrially. I’ve just got back from FEL One Day. A new mini-conference, hosted by Made by Many. As well as me being one of the speakers, we got to enjoy seven well-crafted talks. A thoroughly good show. One of the talks, by Jon Gold. As well as a general consensus that reusing. In the new-age tech startup world may actually be a good idea. Might be a better fit for the more visually architected projects. Better compon...
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Adding HTML5 placeholder attribute support through progressive enhancement - Robert's talk
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We can’t change history, but we can change the future. Be nice to each other. Skip to main content. Adding HTML5 placeholder attribute support through progressive enhancement. Published on Thursday, June 17, 2010. I continually talk about HTML5 and how progressive enhancement is a simple approach to make any new behavior possible in web browsers that haven’t implemented it yet. I thought I’d show you a simple example how to do this with the new. Introducing the placeholder attribute. Script src="http:/ a...
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The Throttle Project
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Joe Critchley is writing on the Svbtle. December 12, 2013. An intervention for the pace of written content, inspired by The Slow Web. Imagine if we knew when to expect written media to be delivered and consumed. What if we shared a common period of time each week, where we spread the word and exchanged feedback? Frankly, I can’t keep track of the sheer amount of written media broadcasted in my network. It floods my social feeds on a constant basis. Strong opinions on techniques. I enjoy the pace of other...
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This thing called Mooch
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Joe Critchley is writing on the Svbtle. December 20, 2013. This thing called Mooch. Have just come out of approximately a 4-week sprint to produce a very rough social web app. Mooch. Matches its user’s intentions (e.g. play football today, drink a beer tomorrow) with one another, allowing them to converse and form a plan. Below, I’ve briefly explained why we started this in the first place, what our goal was in this sprint, and also opened-up our retrospective notes from this afternoon. The purpose of th...
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Bring back the baseline
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Joe Critchley is writing on the Svbtle. October 6, 2013. Bring back the baseline. Here is an explained technique we use at Strobe. To bring the baseline to web typography. An awkward invisible fence that surrounds our elements, stunting vertical rhythm. The web’s box model doesn’t support baselines for vertical measurement between other objects. In a recent project, the fantastic AREA 17. So we came up with a solution that has the effect of a flowing baseline. P { font: 1em/1.5 sans-serif; } p:before...
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