Notes, articles, links and reviews
9 October 2012
I usually like questions like this; they make you think. But in this case, it was very difficult to come up with a satisfactory answer – an answer that satisfied me, that is. These are not necessarily my favourite typefaces, but they all have their uses.
Anyway, here is the response I gave on Quora:
7 October 2012
Markdown Pro is a new twin-pane – what-you-write and what-you-get – Markdown editor for Mac OS X 10.7+ Lion
6 October 2012
For someone who takes notes almost entirely by tapping them out on a keyboard or screen, I buy an unhealthy number of pens and notebooks.
The Cross Aventura Onyx Rollerball is the latest addition to my collection.
Some might say it was the black resin finish and chrome accents that attracted me, and they’d be right. But the gel ink formula also had a big say in my decision. You can never have enough gel-ink pens.
The Onyx rollerball is available from Amazon (£19.95 or $22.43 ), against an RRP of £25 and a whopping £28 from the official Cross site .
28 September 2012
Logins are becoming an increasingly burdensome task for internet users to manage. Mozilla, the foundation behind the popular Firefox browser, hopes to change that:
Persona allows you to sign in to sites using an email address you choose. So, instead of having to manage multiple usernames and passwords across your favorite sites and devices, you’ll have more time to do the important stuff. We’ll manage the details!
Complete a single email verification process with Mozilla, and you become a ‘trusted user’ when you visit participating sites. The more people who sign up, the more likely site owners are to adopt Persona as a sign-in option.
Get on with it.
24 September 2012
The Compass CSS framework works with Sass to help you write CSS code cleaner and more quickly. Add Scout app to the mix and you’ve got a command-line-free workflow. Here’s how
