Month: July 2012

  • iPhone 4S Wallpaper

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    I’ve been looking for an Apple-style wallpaper for my iPhone 4S for a while. I couldn’t find anything that both matched the existing UI and was subtle enough to look like it belonged there, so I made my own. Using the standard Apple pattern and a few round-cornered rectangles, I think it turned out good…

  • How I’ve changed in 10 years.

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    I pulled into the McDonald’s drive-through tonight because I felt I earned a prize for a great week of work, and for getting a bunch of chores done I’ve been building up to for a while. Of course, as I pull up to order, a police car also pulls up immediately behind me. 23 year…

  • Retina 2x downsampling

    While working on some 2x retina images for WordPress.com, and the bbPress and WordPress open-source projects, I found an image rendering issue that I haven’t seen documented anywhere yet. Here’s the WordPress core retina ticket, for reference. The first image highlights the difference between the WordPress core 2x icons, and the bbPress 2x icons. Notice how…

  • iTether Download Link

    If you’re a user of the old iTether app like I am, and you need to re-download the OS X app, here’s the original download url. http://tether.com/i/Tether-iPhone.dmg Took me a while to find it again since they switched to the reverse proxy HTML5 method.

  • Assisi to Rome Timelapse

    Checkout this time-lapse video, taken by Alex Mills with his GoPro. It was made using 9788 images that were taken over the course of 3 hours and 24 minutes, before the battery died. The full-quality 2592×1944 pixel images totaled 16.6GB, and you can enjoy the video in that full quality size by choosing “Original” rather than 720p.