Game design, coding, tech
In this post I take a look at improving the usability of the popular chat client, HipChat, to make it easier to find people. Currently it is difficult to locate people in the side bar if you have a lot going on.
Mozilla’s website told me: “Your system doesn’t meet the requirements to run Firefox.” With 8 gigs of ram, a speedy processor, and plenty of disk space, I feel alienated by one of my favorite brands. Let’s improve the copy.
I plug in my phone to start charging it. The Android File Transfer app auto-starts on my Mac, and moments later, a popup invades my screen and makes me stop whatever I’m doing. “Can’t access device storage,” it says, along with some other noise. It’s time for a redesign.
SPF Framework reduces email fraud and spoofing Email frauds and scams are successful in part because the email of the sender appears to be from a legitimate source. Sender Policy Framework (SPF) allows email servers to double check that an email came from an authorized source, and reject mail before it lands in anyone’s inbox….
While working on revamping my online portfolio, I wanted a scroll effect after clicking on menu items — the default “jump to” activity was abrupt, and after designing my Celebrity Name Game and becoming spoiled on effects, I thought it was a good move. Turns out, however, that it’s unwieldy to try and get jQuery…
I enjoy using Linux and also the terminal, I don’t have a problem typing all day in front of a wall of text, but I need smaller text so I can see more of it. Problem: The text is too large on the console. Solution: Update your TTY config file with a video “mode”. By…
PHP Menu Highlighter – highlight current page in your navigation menu. While developing a website recently, I realized I had already produced the navigation menu in a PHP file and used the include function to pull it into each page, so I needed a way to highlight the current page’s navigation menu item: This uses…