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    troybetz avatar troybetz edited 4 years ago | link | on: “UX Specialists” are killing web-design

    What ‘Design of the year award’ has this won?

    I feel like the author is taking a strawman and bashing it to death in the name of pretty websites. I do agree that gov.uk isn’t the best example of an intuitive web design, but it isn’t the worst I’ve ever seen either.

    Taking a look at the list of results from a search query did make me double take though. Inline tabs, no differentiation other than a bit of shading. Definite headaches are coming…

    << apologies for the duplicate below >>

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      troybetz avatar troybetz 4 years ago | link | on: Lobsters interview with Kyle Conroy

      Awesome idea guys.

      On the subject of switching to Firefox, how does firebug compare to dev tools? I’ve gotten into a pretty nice workflow lately but I would rather switch and support Mozilla.

      Also, just checked out https://stackmachine.com. Not sure if it’s intended or not, but the video autoplays while still hidden on Safari 7.

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        conroy avatar conroy 4 years ago | link

        I don’t use Firebug anymore, as Firefox ships with it’s own dev tools. The tools are fantastic and only getting better. I personally think they are better than Chrome’s.

        Also, sorry about the autoplay video. That is most certainly not supposed to happen. Working on a fix for that now.

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          troybetz avatar troybetz edited 4 years ago | link

          Nice, wasn’t even aware of that.

          Site seems to be fixed now, everything looks great and really simple, hope it takes off! What’s it all built with by the way?

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            conroy avatar conroy 4 years ago | link

            The site is Python and Django. The StackMachine SDK for Love is written in Lua. Database is Postgres.

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        kyle avatar kyle 4 years ago | link | on: Weekly Thread: What are you working on this week?

        I’m finally finishing up the book I’ve been writing since March; it’s looking like I might actually finish by the end of the month, or February at the latest.

        How about you?

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          bobby avatar bobby 4 years ago | link

          You should consider hosting on http://www.penflip.com if you are releasing them for free. It allows git-like version control for the writing process too. It’s seriously great. I found it a few months back on HN and have been using it for both of my free books myself.

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            kyle avatar kyle 4 years ago | link

            I actually sell the ebooks versions (via Leanpub), but Leanpub lets me put up an HTML version for free. I do have a free book coming up (an introduction to the commonly-used cryptopackages in Go, like OTR, NaCl, tls, and one I wrote, CryptoBox), so I’ll definitely look into it. The only thing is I’d like to stray away from Markdown for writing technical books and use Asciidoc. Does Penflip support that?

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            tlongren avatar tlongren 4 years ago | link

            Leanpub is awesome!!

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              kyle avatar kyle 4 years ago | link

              It’s certainly made writing easier, except the Dropbox-based sync has made life difficult (mostly, I run OpenBSD, and there isn’t a good Dropbox client for OpenBSD).

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              troybetz avatar troybetz 4 years ago | link

              Very interesting, also discovered your other book focused on Python. Kudos for putting them up free to read as well, definitely going be curling up with these this weekend!

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                kyle avatar kyle 4 years ago | link

                The Python book is problematic for me, because I haven’t written much, if any, Python since starting Go. That means I have less experience with the elliptic curve stuff, because at my previous job we used RSA. I feel like it’s not as useful as it should be for Pythonistas.