The more fragile access to your content becomes, the less likely you’re able to make money off of it, the less likely your writers will get paid what they should be. The implications of extending that are significant. Sooner or later, Gawker will reverse their decision on using hashbangs—I guarantee it. I just hope that they’ll do so before more sites follow their poor example and start eroding the foundation of their own business in an attempt at being “hip, modern and cool” as well.
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Designing for the web is like building sand sculptures.
Dan Rubin (via simplebits)
wearethedigitalkids: “The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and somthing else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.” -Chuck Close Image from Wisdom
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wearethedigitalkids:

“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and somthing else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.”

-Chuck Close

Image from Wisdom

Textpattern CMS 4.3.0 Release Candidate

Another release (candidate) from the Textpattern.com-Crew. Bringing many improvements and is a first step to a table less admin area. Rocks.

  • Happy retirement to The Carver: new logo courtesy of Philipp Schilling (aka belipe)
  • Optional image constant ihu for serving static images
  • Textpacks for distributing localised strings
  • Improved search ability with search modes “any” or “all”
  • New image tags: <txp:image_list>, <txp:image_info />, <txp:image_url />, <txp:image_date />, <txp:if_thumbnail />, <txp:image_author />
  • New tags: <txp:link_author />, <txp:file_download_author /> <txp:if_custom_field /> pimped to allow any/all/regex matches <txp:image /> and <txp:article_image /> now accept width/height attributes
  • File titles
  • Content type upgrade: URL-style /category and /author lists now possible for all of TXPs native types. Corresponding conditional tags upgraded too
  • New callbacks on the Images tab and more consistent API for shielding plugin authors from DB changes: article_format_info() and link_format_info()
  • New optional Start tab for dashboard plugins
  • No more ‘friendly’ Stylesheet editor. Stylesheets no longer BASE64-encoded in the database
  • Textile 2.2: support for notelists, definition lists, thead, tbody, table summary/caption, colgroups, new glyphs for fractions, plusminus and degrees symbol, plus performance improvements and bug fixes
  • Seemingly over-the-top semantic admin-side markup changes. Will be thinned in due course; please consult the forthcoming guidelines for maximising plugin and theme compatibility in future TXP versions
  • Inconsistent tag attributes renamed to conform
  • Author/meta tags can display real name or login name
  • Transparent pixels preserved in PNG/GIF thumbnails
  • Faster logins

A new version of Textile is out!

The fine folks at Textpattern have released the new version of Textile, the plain text semantic markup pseudo language that rocks.

  • Enabled UTF-8 characters in uppercased acronyms if Unicode compiled into PCRE
  • Fixed rendering bug if acronym title contains 3+ uppercase chars — thanks Ruud
  • Handle single quotes better if Unicode compiled into PCRE. Fixes Issue 26
  • Fixed double span class=”caps” in tables — thanks net-carver. Fixes Issue 61
  • Fixed backwards apostrophes after formatted text — thanks net-carver. Fixes Issue 71
  • Can now parse nested textile entities up to 5 deep — thanks net-carver. Fixes Issue 1
  • Table improvements: ** Added thead, tbody, tfoot support ** Added caption and summary support ** Added colgroup support ** Fixed ‘trailing whitespace after pipe character breaks table’ bug ** Empty table cells now permitted
  • Added self-link syntax — thanks net-carver
  • Added labelled auto-citation notelists — thanks net-carver / Destry
  • Added new glyphs for fractions (1/2), (1/4), (3/4), degrees (o) and plusminus (+/-) — thanks net-carver
  • Added class/ID/style attribute support for individual list items — thanks net-carver
  • Added Textile comments — thanks net-carver
  • Fixed: classes/IDs/Styles can no longer span multiple lines — thanks net- carver
  • Can now make footnote forward-linking optional using exclamation mark — thanks net-carver
  • Fixed duplicate ID bug in footnotes — thanks net-carver
  • Fixed link creation regex bug — thanks net-carver
  • Performance improvements in glyph handling and elsewhere
  • Some whitespace and code output layout prettification
  • Bumped version to 2.2 (because unofficial 2.1.x ports — primarily for Python — are floating round the ‘net)