The Book of Ryan

I’m on the fence as to whether to like the techniques posted in this article, or whether to throw my laptop out a window because an article like this is even necessary. The fact that there is, as of now, no serious competition to Photoshop for Web work is a travesty.

Ivailo Iliev adds a great comment toward the end too:

Make your Grid in Photoshop so that it has Gridline every 1 pixels and Subdivisions is also 1. This will make it a 1×1 grid. When you turn on the grid and have “snap to grid”, it actually becomes “snap to pixel”. Very fast and easy when you need to paste, resize, etc.

verb [trans]. irregular - To like, agree with or recommend.

ORIGIN early 21st cent. 4chan +1 Internets; later appropriated by Google to combat Facebook likes.

USAGE

Present: I +1, She +1’s
Past: I +1’d
Future: I will +1
Perfect: I am +1’ing, I have +1’d, I will have +1’d
Adverb: You are a fantastic +1’er
Imperative Joe, +1 that search result.
Declarative: +1!

Chris Palmer writing for the EFF:

In my own private-sector security industry work, I observed a pattern: the higher the stakes, the worse the security. “Worse” usually means “more easily resolved with known techniques”. I evaluated a wide range of applications and platforms, and almost invariably found that the most important systems — those managing life, health, and money — were poorly engineered. By contrast, small startups doing something interesting but not (yet) critical would sometimes have very well-engineered systems, with entire classes of vulnerability designed away, minimal feature creep, and solid development practices reducing the risk of accidental implementation flaws. I suspect the reason for this pattern is that organizations that handle life, health, and money do not think of themselves as software engineering organizations, and so seek to minimize engineering costs. Additionally, engineering-driven companies tend to be disruptive newbies who have not yet made a big enough impact on the market to control much important information.

Fascinating.

I just went through 34 pages of this blog in one sitting. Amazing.