Jay Robinson

Listening to the new Beach House album on Spotify while doing some UX @Sencha. (Thanks, Nick!)

(Source: Spotify!)

"Speak what you think now in hard words, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance

Coffee and Camera animated gif. (Maxed out).

Challenged myself to recreate these shiny, Jolly Rancher-like buttons by The Skins Factory in a half-hour over the weekend. Not 100% similar, but a healthy Photoshop exercise nonetheless.

Check it out on Dribbble.

moearora:

Please, Tumblr-gods, let “Desk Jockey Jay” become an actual meme!

Instant reblog.

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My dad is killing it on Etsy:

My daughter wanted two of these for her June 30 wedding, and I keep selling them!

Bet your mom likes it.

The Sleep Science: Noosphere Series by Tatiana Plakhova.

"Well I gotta keep it going, keep it going full steam / Too sweet to be sour, too nice to be mean / Well on the tough guy style, I’m not too keen / Trying to change the world, I’ma plot and scheme."

— My favorite MCA verse, from Beastie Boy’s “Intergalactic”.

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Stereo Speaker on Dribbble.

Download my Safari Extension: MaxVid

Full-Window Flash Videos for YouTube & Vimeo

I made my first Safari browser extension to maximize YouTube and Vimeo Flash videos to the size of the window. Now you have a window you can position anywhere on the screen to watch videos while you do other things. After using it for a week, I don’t know how I ever lived without it.

To get started simply click the toolbar button and the Flash player will take up 100% of the height and width of the browser window. To interact with the website again, simply click the toolbar icon again to toggle the extension.

Prerequisites for this extension:

• You must have Adobe Flash. (I did not have Flash installed until I made this extension!)
• Visit this page and click “Leave the HTML5 Trial” if you are in the YouTube HTML5 trial.
• Visit a Vimeo video page and select “Switch to Flash video”.

The inspiration for this extension came in the form of a tweet by David Cole. Immediately I realized this was very simple with CSS, and wanted a quick project to challenge myself.

In hindsight, this would’ve been much easier to code as a strict JavaScript bookmarklet, and I may tackle that eventually. Either way, it was interesting to play around with the Safari Extension Builder. And many thanks to Robert Dougan for helping me with debugging.

I’ve submitted it to the Apple Safari Extensions Gallery, but there is no way to know if or when they approve it. Download the Safari Extension and it will be included with all other extension updates as normal.

Hope you enjoy it!

Pro-Tip: Hold down Option+Shift when resizing the window to maintain aspect ratio perfection!

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I Dribbble’d again. I want a set of speakers like these, so I made them.

Download the PSD on Dribbble.

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We see culture and selfhood as shaped by market forces, technology constraints, business decisions, and arbitrary software designs. No form of meaning stands apart from the technopoly and remains relevant; there is no evidence of meaning beyond those actions which can be turned into apps or pages and made to generate profit.

In the democratic capitalist technopoly, therefore, meaning is defined by forces that take no note of meaning-in-itself, reject as irrelevant everything that cannot be made into discrete, monetizable, digital units. Technology requires user actions; leisure-as-repose cannot be initiated by a click, shared, or sold. Neither, for that matter, can love, wisdom, or joy.

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Mills Baker on Forgotten Leisure. This quote is much the flip-side of this Craig Mod quote I posted today, which I also believe is true and good, in its own way.

As online life takes over for real life, Google, Facebook, and other companies are fighting to turn every aspect of your existing physical life into an exploitable online interaction. I struggle with this. Mills provides a counter-balance while I read Grouped by Paul Adams.

"We blink into a sunset, search for our phone’s camera, and imagine how the photo will play on the screens where our avatar lives, screens belonging to other selves whom we know only as representations."

— Mills Baker, on leisure as “non-activity”

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esbueno:

Kyle Steed created this beautiful lettering from one of my list of Thirty Five.

Should probably get this tattooed to my forehead.

(Source: handdrawnwords)

How to stop iTunes from opening every time your iPhone is connected →

This was driving me crazy. I had the “Prevent devices from syncing automatically” checked in the preferences, yet every single time I docked or _un_docked my iPhone, iTunes would jump to the front of my screen.

The answer is rather unintuitive:

1. Go to iTunes > Preferences > Devices > and uncheck “Prevent iPods, iPhones, and iPads from syncing automatic”.
2. Now you can uncheck “Open iTunes when this [device] is connected” in the device screen.

Problem solved. Sanity restored.