Viktor Bijlenga

Vy +

A simple app that lets you preview your beautiful iPhone mockups saved among your photos that are taller than or equal to the height of the screen.

Andreas Pihlström released an simple, but cleaver app. Try it out.

The Great Discontent: Nicholas Felton +

A good interview as usually on The Great Discontent. Nicholas feels like a humble man who puts a lot of work into his projects. I admire that dedication to create something new. I read his piece of advice to young people starting out, twice.

The approach that served me really well was to make stuff all the time. Even when I was working full-time, I was always freelancing, doing work for others on the side, or working on personal projects. Certainly, the Annual Report personal project has elevated my career enormously, but it was only one of many personal projects that I tried along the way—no one gave a hoot about most of them. Not letting that discourage me, I kept trying other things. It wasn’t about finding “the idea,” but putting things out that I thought were worth doing and seeing if anyone cared. If not, I moved along. You learn as you go, and it gets easier or your point of view becomes more refined.

Thoughts on Media Queries for Elements +

Interesting post by Jonathan T. Neal on the subject Media Queries for Elements.

I think this would open up some new interesting possibilities for making better responsive layouts, but I guess the discussion/other solutions around this topic will be interesting for me to read about.

Experimenting with linked Smart Objects +

Bjango:

Adobe have released Photoshop CC 14.2, which adds the ability for Smart Objects to be stored externally, and linked to a document.

This is exciting news for me, since I use smart objects all the time. This opens up a world of new possibilities.

Weekly links

Composer paired with WordPress – Better Dependency Management In Team-Based WordPress Projects With Composer. Looks interesting.

Interview with Bryan Jones, creator of CodeKit by @seb_ekstrom

Atom, the Github code editor is growing it’s package library. The beta currently has a total package count of over 500 according to Atoms blog

Mike Montario is releasing a new book for A Book Apart during 2013. It’s called “You’re My Favorite Client“. I can’t wait.

Someone spent time making website about the new iOS 7.1 shiftkey.

1Password released updates this week. I love that app more than anything else on my computer.

Minimal viewport tag in iOS 7.1

Video by Chris Coyier. A Quick Useful Case for Sass Math and Mixins – Good introduction to math in Sass.

Frank Chimero – This One’s for Me +

Most of the time when I give advice, I’m unconsciously doing a poor imitation of my mom, which is fitting, because she was probably the wisest person I’ve ever met. She’d say: be kind to yourself and others, and smile if you’re able. Take care of the people you love, and try to make yourself known and understood. Dial it down, work with your hands, keep it quiet, and share what you know.

I liked this part of Franks personal post. It sounds like my mom&dad, and I love them.

MAMP 3.0 +

Mamp 3 is out. I will probably buy the Pro version just to check it out. I like the previous version a lot since it’s so easy to work with.

Chrome Dev Tools: Mobile Emulation +

The mobile web has evolved to enable increasingly sophisticated applications, which we often wish to debug during development on the desktop.

Google Chrome now supports the ability to emulate mobile devices. A great addition to Chromes already excellent dev tools.

Origami Door +

Austrian company Klemens Torggler has designed a door that gently slides open and closed without running along tracks. The Evolution Door was designed based on the concept of rotating squares. A gentle nudge or push triggers the door to slowly slide sideways towards the opposite side of the wall.

I can watch the video on the link all day long. Beautiful rethink of a basic concept.

Command Line Cheat Sheet +

Our cheat sheet not only features the most important commands. On the back, it also explains some tips & tricks that make working with the CLI a lot easier.

A easy cheat sheet with some great tips on how to use the terminal more efficient. I didn’t know about TAB folder autocomplete.

The Great Discontent: Tim Van Damme +

Young people want everything immediately, but it takes time. What I love about our industry is that it doesn’t matter what kind of degree you have: you have to show up and show people what you can do. There’s no bullshitting yourself through an interview process. You have to work really hard for it, and there’s an honesty to it that I love.

A quote from one of my heroes, Tim Van Damme. He is one of the reasons that I started out and started believed in what I spend a lot of time doing every day. It takes time. I know.

Twenty Three

Every year on my birthday I try to write some kind of list of the things I’ve thought of during the year. Those are my twenty three things.

  • Family is more important than anything else in life.
  • Be nice, it’s not so hard.
  • Offline is an alternative to always connected even if you work with computers.
  • Be patient
  • Very few things needs to get done right away.
  • Read books and blogs. 140 characters is not enough.
  • Write more.
  • Buy a camera during 2014 and start a project.
  • You just love her. You do.
  • Call people, since you think Facebook is boring at the moment.
  • Learning to be creative in the kitchen is a challenge you will have to work on for a long time.
  • Sherlock Season 3. That’s quality tv-writing.
  • About time was your favorite movie. Watch it again.
  • You miss your friends a lot somedays. It’s sucks.
  • You are just getting started.
  • Things changes and becomes better.
  • New things are challenging.
  • You enjoy having a dog at the office. It’s super cosy.
  • The new apartment is great.
  • You are stupid. It’s great.
  • Do more of the things that makes you happy.
  • Don’t make things.
  • Fika.

Last year: 22 (written in Swedish)

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