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Singular vs. plural categories by Stellify on Nov 21, 2011I recently worked on a site redesign that features different blogs in its posts. The site also used plural forms for category names, which to me felt unfriendly in describing individual sites. For example: “Pet365, a pet blog” seems more...
When I hit Save Draft in WordPress 3.1, I panicked. 3.2 fixed it. by Stellify on Jul 27, 2011Here’s something I wrote a year ago: I panic when I hit Save Draft in WordPress & see the Publish button gets the same “pressed” visual effect. I switch tabs, then forget I’m just saving it, then what I see is the blue bu...
The cultural equivalent of dark matter by Stellify on Jul 16, 2011TIME Magazine writes about fan fiction (with a timely Harry Potter slant, of course). I want so badly to quote the whole thing here (but long, 5 “pages” long) so I’ll just grab the snippet being passed around on Tumblr: Fan fiction...
The Many Hats of Front-End Engineers by Stellify on Mar 12, 2011Allen Rabinovich of the YUI team says a front-end engineer has many hats. One must be an engineer, an anthroplogist, an artist, and a writer, and to a lesser extent, a paranoid and a futurist. Even if this isn’t up your alley, the talk is insig...
Five Emotions Invented By The Internet by Stellify on Jan 22, 2011A vague and gnawing pang of anxiety centered around an IM window that has lulled. A sudden and irrational rage in response to reading an ‘@-reply’ on Twitter. The state of being ‘installed’ at a computer or laptop for an extended period of ti...
HTML5 is HTML and beyond by Stellify on Jan 20, 2011As if the mainstream isn’t confused enough as it is, the W3C has gone ahead and unveiled a new logo for HTML5 and used it as the umbrella term for the latest technologies in front-end web development, much to all the standardistas’ protes...
WWIC by Stellify on Jan 18, 2011…people in the newspaper industry saw the web as a newspaper. People in TV saw the web as TV, and people in book publishing saw it as a weird kind of potential book. But the web is not just some kind of magic all-absorbing meta-medium. It’s i...
Over the walled gardens by Stellify on Nov 25, 2010WordPress.com has already adopted two Tumblr features (likes and reblogs) but the third one coming in version 3.1 may complete the transformation: post formats. That’s not to say it hasn’t been done. And can you really replicate the Tumbl...
The click trade-off by Stellify on Oct 16, 2010I don’t like it when links automatically open in new windows or tabs. I want to be able to control where I load a URL and prefer CTRL-clicking or middle-clicking instead. But when I keep switching tabs and windows and then return to the URLs I...
Why go local: Para Sa Tabi, May Pasok Ba?, and Facebuko by Stellify on Aug 21, 2009There’s really not much profit (monetary or otherwise) to be had in making local “copies” of the most popular sites today; you’ll probably just be called unimaginative and lame (read: jologs). But these sites are fun little id...
