Garrett LeSage garrett

Why carousels are awful

This is from a rant of mine on IRC a while back. It has been minimally cleaned up.

tons of interaction issues
if the content changes under the mouse, you click on the wrong thing
timing is either too long or too short
often not accessible
everything but the first is not important, as it's often not seen
obscures content by default

programmers and managers need to fully embrace design — without "buy-in", designing is futile (as it'll never get implemented properly — or, in many cases, implemented at all)
design is an iterative process where everyone is involved — not just a designer
design needs to be present at all stages of the project cycle: before, during, and after
design isn't just eyecandy; functionality is even more important (text/content is part of design too)
designers should be treated as full team members, not some add-on
design issues should have high priority too (if something is unusable or even sometimes looks unusable, then people can't use the software)
designers are developers too (in fact, anyone who contributes to making software is a developer — not just programmers)
good software requires design, documentation, project management, community engagement, marketing, etc. — in addition to programming
a lot of designers are quite tech-savvy, but many aren't — regardless, it's okay to not k

Fedora Home Server

Basic idea

Make it very easy for anyone (even non-techy people) to set up a low-power, inexpensive home server with a Raspberry Pi 2* using Fedora.

* (possibly others later — start small, scale up)

Benefits

Opinionated UI Styleguide for Web Applications

Introduction

Web applications are different from web documents.

Web documents exist to share information in an article-like manner. This consists of articles, blogs, wiki pages, and so on. Some web documents have a few app-like elements to enhance their designs, but all web documents should fall back to working in every browser, even when JavaScript is turned off.

A web application, however, relies on JavaScript to function. Web applications need enhanced interaction.

Endless OS 2.6.3

Arabic Full

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	#!/bin/bash

	# This uses the mediawiki_cli gem; be sure to have it installed

	## Usage
	#
	# Please pass the URL to your site's wiki prefix to this command, like so:
	# sh mw-export.sh "http://wikisite/wiki/"
	#

	#!/bin/sh
	#
	# A short script to discover HP JetDirect-enabled printers on your local network
	#
	# Requires: nmap, route, awk, grep
	#
	# On Fedora/RHEL/CentOS, you can install dependencies with:
	# sudo yum install -y nmap net-tools curl gawk
	#
	# (Most of these commands will most likely be already installed.)

	[Thumbnailer Entry]
	TryExec=/usr/bin/gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer
	Exec=/usr/bin/gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer -s %s %u %o
	MimeType=image/svg+xml;image/svg+xml-compressed;

	td {
	/* Bump up line height to make text easier to read */
	line-height: 1.4;
	}

	img:not([src*=spacer]) {
	/* Non-spacer images should fit the width and scale down if necessary */
	max-width: 100%;
	height: auto;
	}