Paul Mison’s random stuff that doesn’t go elsewhere. Is it microblogging, or microactivity? (Previously known as ‘tumblr is my sock drawer’, for reasons that are somewhat unclear.)Tumblr (3.0; @blech)http://notes.husk.org/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2btlcdoWx1qzynf0o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://www.webkitbits.com/post/20911443176/webkit-filter-is-the-new-hotness-and-its-coming">webkitbits</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong><code>-webkit-filter</code> is the new hotness</strong>, and it’s coming to your browser sooner than you’d expect!</p> <p>This slide comes from <a href="http://vhardy.github.com/presentations/html5-community-meet-up-2012/">a recent presentation given by Vincent Hardy of Adobe</a>, showing off the rapid innovation in tweaking web graphics. <a href="http://nightly.webkit.org">Download the latest WebKit Nightly</a> and take a look!</p> <p><small>I recommend you view the whole presentation, but <a href="http://vhardy.github.com/presentations/html5-community-meet-up-2012/#/7/8">click here to go directly to the slide pictured above</a>.</small></p> </blockquote> <p>The filter aesthetic continues its apparently unstoppable march.</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/20917253459http://notes.husk.org/post/20917253459Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:57:45 +0100imagereblogwebkitcssfilterinstagramphotographyadobe<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0e3vksays1qz4vjro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>The Webkit inspector reporting on the size of a <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/bos31337/status/172156922491969536">single post to Twitter</a>, from a post by <a href="http://mike.teczno.com/notes/bandwidth.html">Michal Migurski</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Twitter allows you send 140 characters in a tweet, which (when you add entities, hashtags, and all that) ends up in the 4KB range <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/30146338/map-of-a-tweet">as represented in the JSON API</a>. 140 is what you see, so I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that a single tweet page on Twitter has about a 15,000-to-one ratio of garbage to content.</p> <p>I get links to tweets by mail, etc. on a regular basis, and the aggressive anti-performance and apparent contempt for the web by Twitter’s designers is probably the thing that gets me most irrationally riled-up on a daily basis. How does this pass design review? Who looks at a page this massive, this <a href="http://mike.teczno.com/img/bandwidth/twitter.png" target="_blank">typically broken</a> and says “go with it”?</p> </blockquote>http://notes.husk.org/post/18768306182http://notes.husk.org/post/18768306182Mon, 05 Mar 2012 02:21:19 +0000imagebandwidthtwitterwebkitinspectorsizeinternetmichal migurski