At Least Three States
A few weeks ago Microsoft released a video showcasing their idea of what the future of technology might look like. Some weeks later, Bret Victor wrote a rant about how unimaginative Microsoft’s vision...
View ArticleAn Interesting Challenge
Last week we had a client call us with an interesting problem. They have a tradeshow kiosk they’d like to use to capture form data from users and collect it at the end of each day. The challenge: the...
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Powder: A Backbone-powered iPad webapp
Winter is upon us, and like many folks in Colorado we’re stoked to hit the mountains. Given the recent snowfall and our experimentation with HTML5 localStorage, it seemed natural to push it a bit...
View ArticleReserved usernames to avoid vanity URL collision
As we continue to add support for more languages on our tech support management application, Support Details, one thing we’ve considered is how vanity URLs will impact the introduction of new features....
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Introducing NomNom
Lunch is an important daily ritual at Imulus. Almost every day a group steps out for a bite at one of Boulder’s many dining establishments — and sometimes the entire office will go out together. We’ve...
View ArticleWhat I love about Hype: From a designer and a developer’s perspective
From the Designer’s perspective (Kat): Since Apple’s excommunication of Adobe Flash on their iOS platform, the web has seen an interesting trend: Flash is out, Javascript is in. Okay, that may be a bit...
View ArticleRetina.js
Days before the iPad 3 shipped, Bruce, Taylor and I were talking about how incredible the new retina display was going to be. In a moment of terror it occurred to all of us how it — one device — was...
View ArticleI would have written you a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.
After we released retina.js, we were surprised and proud to see a huge influx of traffic. It was being shared all over the place. One pattern I noticed was most sites that were writing about it had...
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Developing responsive designs in Chrome
I recently switched from docking Chrome’s dev tools on the bottom of the browser to the right side. I like it better because it gives me more vertical space for inspecting the DOM and debugging JS. One...
View ArticleWhy we converted part of our build process from Ruby to Node
Speed, pure and simple. Two years ago next month we embarked on a mission to improve the structure and organization of our front-end assets. This meant standardizing on app, lib and vendor folders for...
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