Just when I got used to my new tab colors described in my previous post, Firefox 4 was released and broke what I’d done. I could still see a teeny difference between my green, yellow, and red tabs — a 2-pixel strip at the top of each of them. But most of the tab was… Continue reading Tweaking Firefox tab colors, part 2 (The Firefox 4 edition)
Author: Curtis Gibby
Creating on-the-fly MP3 playlists on the NMT
All I wanted was a way to quickly and easily get some music going on my nice home theater through my Popcorn Hour, preferably with a “shuffle” option — start it up and let it run. I built a custom PHP script to do just that.
CSS woes at eBay
I don’t generally pay a ton of attention to web typography, but I must have it on my mind after building a new backend for our replicated sites. I spotted this on an eBay order confirmation screen this morning: Yes, that’s three different fonts for three different headers… on the same page.
Different tab colors for different contexts
As a web developer, I may have ten tabs open, each of which could be from any of my environments, and each of which may look identical until you click into it to see the actual URL. So I spent a lot of time clicking back and forth between them trying to find the other page I’d been working on, until I found out how to change the tab color based on which domain it was on.
Our year… in six photos
We did a lot of fun and fantastic things this year and, of course, added a baby to the mix. Take a look at our 2010 “Christmas letter” — a personalized memory game that I made on Match The Memory. Have fun playing it!
Telling Stories
Tonight when we were coming home from Grandma Gibby’s house, we were playing games made up by a 5-year-old. (Audrey said, “Let’s play a game called, ‘Let’s see if you can sing a song that you know’. How you play is, you sing a song that you know.”) When we got to the game called… Continue reading Telling Stories
And then there were five… (The story of Claire’s birth)
The set-up When Sarah was about 20 weeks along with this baby, she began to lobby for us to not find out what the gender was until the baby was actually born. After all, she figured, we could be surprised by learning if it was a boy or a girl at 20 weeks, or at… Continue reading And then there were five… (The story of Claire’s birth)
Syncing Stylish userstyles with Dropbox
The one gripe I had with Stylish is that it doesn’t automatically let you sync your styles across computers. But then I came up with the idea of keeping userstyles synced up via Dropbox, and now it works great! I’ll show you how to do it here.
Maximizing font size in FPDF
At work, I use the excellent FPDF library to write PDF files. But I couldn’t find any way to automatically make the text as large as possible to fit into a given space. So I wrote the following function to stick into the FPDF class. It’ll take a given text string and a width, incrementally… Continue reading Maximizing font size in FPDF
My reaction to Google Font Directory: “Meh.”
I’ve been interested in web fonts for a while now, so I was rather excited when the Google Font Directory was released last month. Am I the only one who’s not really impressed with it?