Viktor Bijlenga

  • Great interview with Helena Price

    Helena Price:

    > It’s very easy to get tied up in what other people are doing and compare yourself to others. We’re in an age where everyone is on the Internet and everything has metrics attached to it. My advice would be to stay very focused on making good personal work with your own unique perspective.

    I recommend that you read the whole piece. As usual on The Great Discontent, it’s a great interview filled with thoughtful things to think about, especially if you work in the design/web/photo industry.

  • FlowType.JS — Responsive web typography

    > Ideally, the most legible typography contains between 45 and 75 characters per line. This is difficult to accomplish for all screen widths with only CSS media-queries. FlowType.JS eases this difficulty by changing the font-size—and subsequently the line-height—based on a specific element’s width. This allows for a perfect character count per line at any screen width.

    Seems like an interesting script if you wanna fine tune that blog of yours. I need to try it out.

  • Staytu.be

    Brilliant website for listing to live concerts while at work (or other places). A micro project by [@urre](https://twitter.com/Urre). Best part, it’s free from youtube comments.

  • Fingervals for iPad

    Fingervals is a fun game for the iPad. The goal is to collect coins and power items while avoid being hit by explosives. I’ve been playing for a few hours now. It’s also available for iPhone, [Fingervals Pocket](https://itunes.apple.com/se/app/fingervals-pocket/id699503441?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D2). Go get it!

  • Effeckt.css

    A great collection of CSS transition & animations. It’s still a work in progress, so it still growing/evolving. Chris Coyier has recored a [great introduction](http://css-tricks.com/video-screencasts/128-effeckt-css-local-setup-with-grunt-and-contributing-on-github/) of it, if you want to contribute.

  • The Verge: Apple iPhone 5S review

    > The iPhone 5S isn’t just supposed to be “the most amazing iPhone yet.” It’s not “the thinnest and lightest iPhone ever.” No, Apple says the 5S is “the most forward-thinking iPhone yet” and “the best smartphone in the world.”

    It’s also my next phone.

  • Mobile Only

    > First, I should always have a Mobile Only persona in my mind when creating a site. That use case may be small now (in America), but it won’t be for long. In India, for example mobile usage has already overtaken desktop use.

    Excellent point. I use my phone/tablet to surf the web, not the computer.

  • Safari on iOS 7 and HTML5: problems, changes and new APIs

    > Apple has rolled out iOS 7 and in a few days the new devices iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C . As expected Apple has publish just 10% of the necessary information for web developers and I can say without fear of mistake that this is the buggiest Safari version since 1.0. In this post I’ll show you the new APIs and abilities and most of the problems that you will need to deal with right now if you have a website or a webapp.

    Good walkthrough of changes to mobile Safari introduced by iOS 7.

  • Themes for Chrome Developer Tools

    Not officially supported by Chrome, but it looks kind of useful. My favorite theme for Sublime Text, [Soda](http://buymeasoda.github.io/soda-theme/) is not available yet though. That’s a bummer.

  • iOS: A visual history

    The Verge has posted a great overview of the history of iOS. I still remember my feeling of “this is the future of phones” when Steve introduced the iPhone on stage. I also remember saving all my money, importing the original iPhone (since it never was sold in Sweden) and hacking it to get support for the swedish alphabet. Good times.

  • Creative Mornings – Seth Godin

    > The myth of the overnight success is just that, a myth. — Seth Godin

  • “Creative” is An Insult

    Mårten Björk:

    > I’ve read countless books on programming, web standards, typography, color theory, grid layout, digital strategy, advertising… I’ve spent years trying to improve my work, iterating over and over. For every solution we show a client, we tested hundreds of possible combinations in our heads before reaching our conclusion.

    > We acquire skills and then we use them to solve problems.

    Take one minute and read this.

  • CuttySSark, trigger JS events from your stylesheets

    This looks like a lot of fun. Might be useful, need to try it out.

  • Glide.js – Lightweight & Fast jQuery Slider

    Glide.js is a lightweight, responsive and touch-friendly jQuery slider. Based on CSS3 transitions with fallback to older browsers. It’s really simple and the impact looks minimal.

  • Emmet Cheat Sheet

    Great overview of how to use the syntax of Emmet. A good way to speed up front-end development.