Yesterday I watched this talk by Zack Arias. It’s probably a must see for every creative person who felt that feeling – “I’m not good enough” or “why does everything bad happen to me”. Honesty is a good approach to many of those questions we have in our mind. I also believe that patience is important key to self confidence as a creative worker. Don’t compare yourself to much against other. Make things you believe is good work.
Input is a flexible system of fonts designed specifically for code by David Jonathan Ross. It offers both monospaced and proportional fonts, all with a large range of widths, weights, and styles for richer code formatting.
I came across these fonts today. It seems to be a nice collection, so I’ll just save them for later here as a link.
I use view source all the time. At the moment I use a piece of JavaScript for the task (a bookmarklet), which works good – but I’m totally open for new ways to explore code from my phone.
Generate favicon.ico and icons for iOS, Android, Windows 8 and Firefox (OS)
Smart way to generate all those icons with Grunt. Hopefully it will add support for the 180x180px which is recommended for the IPhone 6 plus. Update: The iPhone 6 plus is not using the 180×180 icon yet. iPad and iPad mini with @2x display running iOS 8 is using it.
A playful way to learn how to use Béizer curves (the pen tool) to draw vectors.
What I realized was that each of the above types of documents could easily be identified by my unique account number with each company. And so I set up rules in Hazel to look at the contents of a document, and depending on which criteria that document matches Hazel renames the PDF accordingly and then files it into the proper folder on my Mac.
Smart. I need to add this to my Hazel rules for my paperless setup.
Sveriges 100 mest populära podcasts
I’ve build a little web-app, that lists the 100 most popular podcasts in Sweden. Fun side-project.
Project Parfait is an experimental service for designers and developers, who turn Photoshop comps into code-based designs. It lets you quickly and easily extract what you need from a PSD comp.
Interesting beta product from Adobe. I guess I have to try this out next time I’m exporting a design > code. It might be a good addition to my workflow somehow.
This kid will probably have the worlds best collection of superhero moments, when looking back at his childhood. Those short movies made me smile.
Here is a running list of our personal favorite apps on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. These are the apps we, The Sweet Setup staff, use day in and day out for work and play.
A great list of apps that you might enjoy. I use many of them all the time.
Open a specific folder in the terminal with Alfred app. Just type ´term´ + the name of the folder and Alfred will open a terminal window with the folder as root. I’ve used it for a few days now and it only gets better since Alfred remember which folders I select from the list of folders with similar names.
11 minutes long documentary about the Hong Kong Neon sign industry. I like short documentaries like these, which tells stories about interesting work people do (for a living).
Shawn Blanc words on this video:
And here’s a crazy fact I bet you didn’t know: when a glassworker is designing the a neon sign, the tube’s start and stop points are determined not so much by the letter form but by where he’ll be able to most easily bend the glass without burning his hands.
I missed that Volvo did a print ad of the epic split campaign, so when I saw this a few moments ago I thought it was funny. It made me smile.
I love this song.