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Re: http://brandonmathis.com/projects/fancy-avatars

Brandon Mathis — Sun, 13 Sep 2015 22:51:08 -0000

Since posting this (forever ago) I think the real issue is giving people a choice of avatars that represents them. A binary set of hair lengths doesn't cover it for everyone and if I cared to spend the time, I'd update this set to have a more diverse set of silhouettes. I still stand by the chubby pawn being a pretty poor choice for all users.

Today though there are so many better options for having unique and fun default avatars which ignore gender representation entirely. http://avatars.adorable.io/... Is a fun one which I've used on a recent project.

Re: 049: Funding

Brandon Mathis — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 12:59:36 -0000

Congrats! That's awesome news.

Re: http://brandonmathis.com/blog/2010/10/09/logo-design-is-easy

Brandon Mathis — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:49:56 -0000

Yep, you're right. Helvetica Neue, just like the almost Gap logo.

Re: Sass vs. SCSS: Which Syntax is Better? - Articles

Brandon Mathis — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:18:55 -0000

SCSS

nav {
  &.top-nav { li { margin:{ top:0; left:0; }}} // some comment
}

Sass

nav
  &.top-nav
    // some comment
    li a
      margin:
        top:0
        left:0

Beauty is subjective, but I'm pretty sure this is a case of SCSS being prettier than Sass. The inline comment, and the continuous left to right reading is way nicer. Having to digest all those line breaks in Sass in order to processes something so terse is annoying.

**Edited** because Sass cannot be posted with out <pre> blocks. SCSS is easier to share since it can be pasted anywhere in plain text.

Re: BSAG » Octopress Tweaks

Brandon Mathis — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:37:13 -0000

Nice work, I love what you've done with the blog.

Re: http://brandonmathis.com/blog/2010/09/21/fast-color-theming-with-compass-and-sass

Brandon Mathis — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 23:09:42 -0000

This is a problem that often pops up in the Compass mailing list and many of the solutions people suggest are complex (like generating color schemes server-side on the fly) or messy (like scoping color schemes under a body class and switching that).

Indeed, PIE support would be nice to bring this forward. My main intent for this wasn't to show a finished product, but instead it was simply intended to be a demonstration on how to use Compass/Sass to manage color theming.

Re: http://octopress.org/2010/10/12/the-web-in-print.html

Brandon Mathis — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:56:04 -0000

I have just replied to myself. Crazy!

Re: http://octopress.org/2010/10/12/the-web-in-print.html

Brandon Mathis — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:55:40 -0000

Here's a test comment!

Re: http://brandonmathis.com/blog/2011/03/02/hslpicker.com-released

Brandon Mathis — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:52:36 -0000

Glad you like it and thanks for the tip on a the slider, but unfortunately it's missing an important feature. Try to click on the track and drag. It doesn't work. You have to click and release and the slider moves to the clicked spot. My slider lets you click on the track and drag the slider thumb around, which offers a better user experience. Also I'm a MooTools guy, so there's that :).

Regarding the performance of the slider, I've noticed that on some computers and mobile devices the slider feels more laggy. I think this is because it takes a fair bit of processing power to recalculate all the colors with each move. I don't have a lot of computers on hand so I haven't been able to verify that, but I did notice that it's much slower on my iPad and a friend's older PC laptop.

Also clicking on the track to move the slider (as I mentioned above) isn't as smooth as clicking the thumb and dragging. This is because the thumb isn't really attached to the mouse pointer and is having to be constantly repositioned relative to the mouse. If you click the thumb instead of the track, it should be smoother.

Re: http://brandonmathis.com/projects/fancy-buttons

Brandon Mathis — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:55:21 -0000

Disqus was being funny so I just saw your comment. You can use fancy-buttons on normal links.

Re: http://brandonmathis.com/projects/fancy-buttons

Brandon Mathis — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:54:22 -0000

For some reason, Disqus never notified me about your comment. It seems that Chrome has differing levels of CSS3 support for box-shadow when combined with border-radius on different operating systems. This looks fine to me on Chrome 10 in OS X. Are you still having trouble with this?

Re: http://brandonmathis.com/projects/fancy-buttons

Brandon Mathis — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:47:22 -0000

Here you go:

https://github.com/imathis/...

Re: http://brandonmathis.com/blog/2011/03/02/hslpicker.com-released

Brandon Mathis — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 21:18:18 -0000

I had left alpha off because it just didn't seem very useful. But, now it's probably time to add vanity features ;) I'll let you know when it's done. Thanks!

Re: http://brandonmathis.com/blog/2010/10/28/fancy-buttons-1.0-released

Brandon Mathis — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:42:23 -0000

Hah, awesome, glad you got it worked out.

Re: http://brandonmathis.com/blog/2010/09/21/fast-color-theming-with-compass-and-sass

Brandon Mathis — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:32:33 -0000

Hah. Is there anything specific you'd like to see?

Re: http://brandonmathis.com/blog/2010/09/30/coping-with-your-family

Brandon Mathis — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 02:07:32 -0000

Thanks. I appreciate it :)

Re: http://brandonmathis.com/blog/2010/10/08/how-to-get-high-resolution-screenshots-of-a-website

Brandon Mathis — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 02:05:07 -0000

I'm using the browser as a tool to resize my design work. With CSS the drawing is done in a scalable format, but in OS X, most of what you see on the screen are raster graphics which you can't scale without pixelated results.

Re: http://brandonmathis.com/blog/2010/10/30/zero-to-fancy-buttons

Brandon Mathis — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 11:57:19 -0000

I've updated the post with the color picker I'm using. It's xScope at http://iconfactory.com/soft...

Re: http://brandonmathis.com/blog/2010/09/21/fast-color-theming-with-compass-and-sass

Brandon Mathis — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 12:39:36 -0000

I'm using all kinds of Compass/Sass goodness here. The layout is fixed, but all the math is calculated from a few simple variables. I'm also using @extend in some cool ways too. I do have plans to release more of this design in the future, but for right now, I just wanted to share the color theming part.

Re: http://brandonmathis.com/blog/2010/10/04/wp-life

Brandon Mathis — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 12:36:05 -0000

Thanks very much. I'm glad you found it useful.

Re: http://brandonmathis.com/blog/2010/10/05/gap

Brandon Mathis — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:29:34 -0000

A good observation. Although, GAP isn't in bad shape. With some brands, the need for change is obvious. With GAP, it isn't. I'm sure as the brand is rebuilt, we'll start to see where they're going with this.

Re: http://brandonmathis.com/projects/fancy-buttons

Brandon Mathis — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:58:32 -0000

Yes, I've been looking at that. Fantastic stuff. I'm working on a Compass fork that supports it, and if all goes well, fancy buttons will too. Thanks for the link though. I'm glad to hear it's working well for you.

Re: http://brandonmathis.com/projects/fancy-buttons

Brandon Mathis — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:46:09 -0000

Good call. My posts are dated, I guess I didn't think to do it on other pages.

Re: http://brandonmathis.com/blog/2009/11/19/fancy-buttons-are-here

Brandon Mathis — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:26:12 -0000

Here's a link to the background image: http://github.com/imathis/f...

Re: My Octopress Blog :: Migrated To Octopress

Brandon Mathis — Tue, 25 May 2010 17:28:01 -0000

I ran across this post while examining my Octopress fork queue, very cool OSS serendipity. Nice job, I'll be pointing others to your work on this. Thanks man!