As well as being a web developer and type geek, I like to bounce around on a bike with no seat… Trials is something I’ve been doing for a couple of years now, but I always did it on a smaller mod trials bike, with 20″ wheels. This was okay for a period, but after a while it became painfully clear that a 6′4″ guy on a bike with small wheels looked remarkably like a clown. So, after six months out of the sport, this week I went to town and forked out £1200+ on a stock, a type of trials bike with 26″ wheels.
CSS Wizardry archive for March, 2010
I rode through Leeds on a bike with no seat
March 14th, 2010
By Harry RobertsTags: Trials
. Posted in Personal | 4 Comments »
30 days without an iPhone
March 8th, 2010
As of 6 February, 2010, I have been without my iPhone. It’s been
unbelievably difficult for me, as a web developer and geek, to
properly function without it. You do not realise how reliant
everyone is upon technology until you lose it. Unsurprisingly it is
really quite hard going from having the whole internet at your
call and fingertips, to going to a big, archaic pre-iPhone piece
of rubbish. If this experience taught me one thing though, I am
very dependent on technology, simply just to wile away the time;
even sat in bed, my iPhone was a major part of me seeing what
revelations the web had in store.
By Harry RobertsTags: Insurance, iPhone
. Posted in Personal | 1 Comment »
Thai-po-graph-e
March 4th, 2010
This is just a silly little something I threw together yesterday. A small pictogram using a map of Thailand, children’s TV character Po, a graph and the letter e to represent, well, Typography.
Too much time on my hands!
Thai • Po • graph • e
By Harry RobertsTags: Pictogram, Pointless
. Posted in Personal, Typography | 7 Comments »
Moving forward is holding us back
March 2nd, 2010
For years, web developers have been looking forward to that next feature, that new and monumental shift which has allowed them to break away from the shackles of obsolescence and adopt new and forward thinking technologies. But it is beginning to come full circle—that thirst for new technology has slowly brought us back to square one, reimposing the constraints that we have, for years, tried to rid ourselves of. Moving forward is holding us back.
By Harry RobertsTags: Accessibility, iPhone, Optimisation
. Posted in Web Development | 13 Comments »
A quick note on border radius
March 2nd, 2010
This is a quick post concerning the border-radius CSS3 property, and the syntax behind it. After coming across this site earlier today via Twitter I remembered my initial frustrations with lack of uniformity across user agents and their required syntax in order to create round corners; Firefox requiring a different format to Webkit and the CSS3 spec was pretty annoying.
By Harry RobertsTags: Border Radius, CSS3
. Posted in Web Development | 6 Comments »