Viktor Bijlenga

  • How to Get the Work You Want

    Excellent advice from Daniel Mall:

    > There’s little excuse for not being able to do the work you want. I’ve been fortunate to work on some of my dream projects, simply from being part of the right conversations. Start filling out your portfolio—see step #1—join the right conversations, and make 2014 your best work year yet.

    I’d would like to add one piece of advice to this: Be patient and enjoy the ride. Everyone is a beginner in our industry at some point. You might as well enjoy working your way towards your dream client/project.

  • Sass Tip: The Double Ampersand Selector

    Today I’ve learned this. It’s probably usefull knowledge to share with you. You might learn something as well.

  • Sublime Text – Syncing Package Control with Dropbox

    > To properly sync your installed packages across different machines, you actually do not want to sync the whole Packages/ and Installed Packages/ folders. The reason for this is that some packages have different versions for different operating systems. By syncing the actual package contents across operating systems, you will possibly run into broken packages.

    Why didn’t I search Google for this earlier. This will save me so much frustration.

  • How to add a custom Facebook Feed to a Website using the Graph API

    > A twitter friend asked me about creating a custom feed for a Facebook wall. Pretty easy with the php sdk, but when I looked at the source it turns out I made it another way. Better or worse? You tell me.

    I asked John Svensson how they created a good looking Facebook feed on Galleria Duvans website. He replied with writing two blogposts and a git repo on the subject. I just love that. Someone who understands the value of sharing. Sharing is caring.

  • WP CLI – command line interface for WordPress

    > WP-CLI is a set of command-line tools for managing WordPress installations. You can update plugins, set up multisite installs and much more, without using a web browser.

    Save time, use better tools to do the things you always have to do. WP-CLI probably saved me a day of work, just this week.

  • The Design of WordPress 3.8

    > In its 10 years WordPress has seen many changes, one of the most significant being the “Crazyhorse” redesign that came with version 2.7 in 2008. Today’s update is the biggest visual update to WordPress since that release.

    WordPress 3.8 is a great update. The admin interface is featuring a new design. A evolution of the previous design, which I think is a good way to make the transition to something new easier for a lot of people. It’s also responsive, which is a great feature these days, when we tend to use and manage our websites from many different devices.

  • Grunt for People Who Think Things Like Grunt are Weird and Hard

    Next year I’m going to learn how to use Grunt. It will probably make my process even faster than ever before. First, I need to read this brilliant post by Chris Coyier.

  • Supercharge your Workflow in Sketch

    Good resource on how to use Sketch more efficient while designing.

  • Values

    > “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
    ― Albert Einstein

  • The Great Discontent: Merlin Mann

    I keep posting links those fine interviews from The Great Discontent. This might be the best one so far. Take some time, and read it. I enjoyed every word.

  • The Great Discontent – Timothy Goodman

    > Are you creatively satisfied? I don’t like this question (laughing). Right now, as I sit here, I would say yes: I feel creatively satisfied. Will I feel this way in a month? Maybe not. As creative people, we always want more. No matter where we’re at, the grass is always greener somewhere else.

  • WP-Snippets

    A growing library of code snippets for WordPress. I always learn new things while browsing trough archives like this.

  • Inspiration: Return To Craft

    I spent 120 seconds tonight watching this short segment with Brad Frost. I enjoyed it, especially those words:

    > People are starting to appreciate craft more.

  • Tools for image optimization

    Great advice by Paul Irish in the comments of the linked article:

    > Automate everything. You don’t want to repeat image optimization yourself, nor do you want to ask your team to do the same six steps you repeat. Set up a build process that smartly optimizes new images. Use lossy compression.

  • Quickly edit text in the broswer

    > Typing “document.body.contentEditable = true;” into Chrome DevTools makes all of the text on a page editable.

    This trick is brilliant to use if you design in the browser.