Code is Clay

By Chris Coyier on

A nice essay from Cam Pedersen. Clay breaks. A lot. My first few attempts collapsed on the wheel. One piece cracked in the kiln. I dropped another walking to my car. But nobody cries about it, you just start over. The clay doesn’t care. It’s just material waiting for the next idea. You’re gonna have […]

Fancy Short Screen Recording Tools

By Chris Coyier on

There is a category of apps that help record short-form videos, mostly screencasts. For those of you who work on products that you need to showcase/teach people how to use, video can be super effective. Here’s a list of the ones I’ve seen for reference: I’ve been trying them out for videos like this, but […]

Text scaling support in Chrome Canary

By Chris Coyier on

Josh Tumath: Have you ever noticed that when you increase the system text size in your iOS or Android phone’s accessibility settings, the text gets bigger everywhere except on the web? On Safari and Chrome, it makes absolutely no difference. New thing: <meta name=text-scale>  This isn’t page zoom, which scales everything, it’s just respects the […]