

I still love Grunt, but I'm thinking its time to switch to Gulp.Īpple's re-commitment to Safari with Safari Technology Preview makes my heart swoon. Previously attempts to introduce Pixate was a bust. Principle App & Flinto are the best ways to date to mock up UX interactions since they rely on Sketch. I finally built a simple useful coding tool, in early August. You need JS to calculate the actual image size> as the DOM reports the image as the space occupied by the area that the image could occupy as opposed to what it occupies. Preload seems like the next no-brainer step in optimization for campaign and CMS driven sites.ĬSS's Object-Fit isn't much better than using Background-cover. To keep me on course, I'm going to try to do a quarterly update on what's been bouncing around in my head, what I've been up to, what excites me and what disappointments me. Thoughts on Front End Development in late 2016ĭespite my blog supposably being tangentially related to the fact I do develop stuff sometimes, recently most of my blog posts have been about not-front-end-development, likely an outgrowth of the fact I spend 40 some hours any given week talking or thinking about front end development. Instea, your website is directly trying to deceive me into installing it. I'm sure the update manager is nice and wonderful but I do not want it. I suspect for all hosted files now just use a reference ID to the old expected file and returns a DMG with a like name to the same installer DMG. It appears that the ID number in the URL now just redirects to an ID number to the mislabeled dmg as grabs the same file. Not to be detoured so easily, I tried grabbing the URL to the file directly. So much for a good thing, instead of the expected content, in this case, a zip containing classic OS 9 sound files, I got a mislabeled, which struck me as nefarious. The download URL is to a zip file, but DMG? Here's what happens today when you try to link download it today: In this, I recommended using a package of Mac OS Classic sounds and linked to none other than Mac Update. One of my most read articles (accessed around 20,000 times) is a tutorial that walks through how to add text-tones to the iPhone using ifile.

Fortunately, we always had MacUpdate, and while it evolved over time to a place that sells software bundles and its own service, MacUpdate was generally a safe place to go software searching. It eventually was purchased by CNET and folded into the abysmal mess,. switches to dark UX and forces Shovelware in place of expected filesīack in the day, there was a company called TechTracker that tracked OS X update apps, and other platforms.
