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Jonathan Nicol @f6design Melbourne, Australia

A designer and web developer, running a one-person studio called F6 Design. I also blog at Pixel Acres.

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How long can you work on making a routine task more efficient before you're spending more time than you save? http://t.co/hjnIVYLVX2I just saw a job posting for a "web 3.0 designer" *rolleyes*
5/26
2013
http://t.co/osW35mVs6b"I wasn't actually sleeping. I'm a beta tester for Google Eyelids and I was merely taking the opportunity to update my Facebook page."Ooooh, Codekit 2.0 is coming... http://t.co/HD3NpmYyfy "It's ungodly fast"
5/25
2013
@Bohnna I've been trying to ignore flexbox because I know once I play with it, I'm going to want to start using it NOW!@Bohnna http://t.co/CqWKbTLfg7 sadly it will be years before flexbox can be used safely (thanks, Microsoft)"Programming is like magic!" …magic that doesn't work most of the time and laughs in your face while you try to find out why.
Retweeted by Jonathan NicolWhat a sorry state of affairs it is that in 2013 we can still refer to centering an element using CSS as "the holy grail of web design."
5/24
2013
@tweetbradmc Thanks for the kind words Brad!@coryetzkorn Thanks Cory!"Said nobody, ever" - an unfunny person, constantly
Retweeted by Jonathan NicolNew site: http://t.co/lf5bbUahKb I did the front end dev, and everything else is by the ridiculously talented http://t.co/OqfWDraP6XThat probably sounded like I'm dissing Device Anywhere, but actually it was very good. Just a little laggy is all, like every other service.I just had a play with a remote Samsung Galaxy 3 on http://t.co/MkkC3gzd1V. Probably the least crap remote device testing service I've tried
5/23
2013
Just so you know, it's pronounced "jithub"Oh, GIF with a hard "G", I'm going to miss you.DNS. Aaaaaaaaaargh!"Goofy's a direwolf. He's definitely a direwolf." "He can't be a direwolf. He rides a cart and wears a helmet." #StandByThrones
5/22
2013
I'm sure this interactive tutorial about Git is good, but for now I'm just super impressed with the app interface http://t.co/sjZfvPtxFR
5/21
2013
Just finished empyting my filing cabinet in preparation for moving studio this wknd. Man, I used to print EVERYTHING. At least three times.
5/20
2013
One does not simply Hodor into Hodor.
Retweeted by Jonathan NicolA good piece from Adobe Reflow's designer about the genesis of the app http://t.co/lWmpvaXIgv I played with Reflow recently, seems promising@iamtyce If you've not seen it already, Addy Osmani did an interesting little write up about the Daft Punk jank: http://t.co/oZTnRxfO7tA great article from @StuCoxMedia, who contributes to Modernizr, about why touchscreen detection is so problematic http://t.co/qMK5OKSvtV@StuCoxMedia Thanks Stu. I found your blog post very informative, and your advice about not making assumptions is vey sage!
5/19
2013
@senongo I think maybe *you* should be the one starting a dog meme blog!@senongo Noooooooo! http://t.co/Kcqxa7GQqOSure, it is a little but "janky", but Pitchfork's parallax scrolling Daft Punk article is still really nice. http://t.co/KaVcjpqgoy@senongo I'm feeling lazy and directionless today. Don't tempt me...I'm struggling to figure out exactly what Modernizr.touch detects: https://t.co/8LNKOAt8ZH(You know that when you start tweeting animated gifs of bipedal dogs, it's time to get back to work.)The best animated gif I've seen today: https://t.co/d4sIWLn5BKIf anyone in Fitzroy/Melb needs a computer desk, I'm selling one on ebay: http://t.co/hOMpWSIPBFI'm giving Evernote a proper go. If anyone has tips, or recommended Evernote apps, let me know!
5/17
2013
Added touchscreen swipe navigation to an image gallery. Feeling like a boss. (Took me all of 5 minutes thanks to https://t.co/Q4ADDIbu1V)@apateldesign The album seems to be getting favourable reviews, so I'm probably wrong :-P I do quite like the first single, Get Lucky.
5/16
2013
@khoi Underwhelming. Hopefully at the nursing home they'll be playing Discovery instead.New Daft Punk. Meh. Sounds like a bunch of leftovers from Discovery.
5/15
2013
Priceless http://t.co/OrFfRtuM7k
Retweeted by Jonathan NicolUh oh. Looks like someone leaked the algorithm. http://t.co/DOQGB9CeIZ
Retweeted by Jonathan NicolI'm using jQuery Backstretch for a site I'm working on. I love this plugin. http://t.co/rsmDp71mXR
5/11
2013
@StuartKearney Nice!That joyous feeling when you test a web page in Internet Explorer and it actually works.I noticed that Isotope stores its callbacks in an array named "hollaback", which made me smile.
5/10
2013
You know all those "which is the best...?" questions that get closed by moderators on StackOverflow? http://t.co/kgcnpHQ0fn has you covered.Iconmonstr http://t.co/mMfHeWJxKp
5/9
2013
Discovering a bunch of great web dev apps and services via this Quora question http://t.co/ZUWt4YPGDwGoogle has a great doodle today, celebrating Saul Bass' birthday with an animation inspired by his film titles. http://t.co/xMNRBQFDd4
5/8
2013
I just discovered that you can make screencasts using QuickTime on Mac. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.
5/3
2013
I just discovered that Codekit can have a project-level settings file. Duh. That'll sure make syncing between home and work a lot easier!@typekit Cheers. For my project I actually only need the regular weight, but I thought I'd bring it to your attention anyway (for next time)
5/2
2013
@jefffis ... and Google sites were still good. Used Gmail without noticing much difference.@jefffis Pretty much EVERYTHING performed poorly. One exception was http://t.co/pMQOiBsiBR, which was a surprise because it's usually slow!Hey @typekit, how come no bold weight of Inconsolata? Google web fonts has it ;-)Got Word file(s)? Need to get their content in a WYSIWYG editor? Option A) don't. Option B) use http://t.co/aKw9DJAYO9
Retweeted by Jonathan NicolThis is cool. Mark Boulton has teamed with CERN to reinstate the first website. http://t.co/JiIgseySvnPicking up keys to our new studio today, and measuring the space for furniture. Exciting!Our home cable Internet was capped for 24hr at dialup speed. It was interesting to see which sites still loaded fast and which loaded slow.
5/1
2013
Robert Scoble *really* likes his Google Glass: "I will never live a day of my life from now on without it" https://t.co/RS19B83S89
4/27
2013
Some dude covering Mastodon's Leviathan album in one take, by ear, on the piano. http://t.co/EDu7N1NHQ0!Chrome inspector discovery: When editing a numeric value use the mouse wheel to increment the number. Hold down Shift to increment at 10x.
4/26
2013
I use WP Migrate DB on my WP sites to migrate databases from local <-> production servers. There's now a pro version: http://t.co/sKgiSC00nqI just discovered that the dev inspector in IE has a refresh button. All this time I thought the inspector didn't update after DOM changes.
4/23
2013
Oh well played Playstation HTML email person: http://t.co/XlUElbd8Lt
Retweeted by Jonathan NicolWe're moving out of our studio in June. Wanna rent a huge, awesome space in Fitzroy? http://t.co/E5qObFD3ZG
4/22
2013
I always feel a little bit dirty after using a JavaScript timeout to overcome race conditions.@senongo Ha! Well hopefully I'll at least be able to put screens in my portfolio :)
4/21
2013
Finishing off a very ambitious project, one of the best CSS/JS jobs I've worked on. But it's for an intranet so I can never share it :(
4/20
2013
If you still use "admin" as your Wordpress username, now would be a good time to change it. http://t.co/ko7QfhYU4XI haven't tried this yet, but here are instructions for testing a website on an iOS device, from your mac: http://t.co/t0dAaeEAvORT: @xeenon Safari 6 also has the Web Inspector built in for defies and the sim. Enable it in Safari Settings.@xeenon Hey that's a great tip!TinyMCE 4 sounds like the business! http://t.co/XORbL8NQAM It looks damn sexy, too.
4/13
2013
New Major Lazer. Friday just got even better.@bobjwatts The only Adobe product I've been excited about since... forever. Well, since Photoshop anyway. Makes a refreshing change!Using Chrome developer tools to inspect a site running on my iPad. Mind = blown. (Last Adobe Inspect tweet, I promise.)A hot tip for testing sites served from a local web server in Inspect: use xip.io http://t.co/pT04EjZONXUsing Adobe Edge Inspect for the first ime. Holy smoke, this makes testing sites on mobile deveices a breeze. http://t.co/ltb9glJFhJIs the CSS syntax way too simple for you? Do you think preprocessors are for losers? Are you paid per line of code? http://t.co/xrGRKmOzLy
4/12
2013
It really makes me appreciate Akismet when it stops working. Spam floooood.@chriscoyier yah me too. I upgraded Akismet and that fixed it. Maybe disable/reenable would work too.
4/10
2013
@CampaignMonitor Caps beat lowercase, eh? I don't think I'll tell my clients, they'll be all like "OUR AWESOME NEWSLETTER TITLE!!!!!!"
4/9
2013
Woohoo! Collapsible repeaters in Advanced Custom Fields for WP https://t.co/YAVBBh7P0t@WebKnit Arg, don't look at that old thing. Woefully out of date, and in desperate need of a redesign. But thanks!@WebKnit Lockable apps would be good though. Can be done a jailbroken iOS device, but I don't want to go down that road...@WebKnit Figured out a solution. Settings > Privacy > Twitter > Off.@WebKnit The app is Angry Bird Star Wars, and it has a tweet btn - no setting to disable. Presumably if Twitter is installed it "just works"@WebKnit The thing is, I want my son to be able to use the iPad, but not be able to tweet achievements in-app. I wish iPad had user accounts
4/6
2013
I can't believe I just did a google search for "how to stop child tweeting from ipad." Do other parents have this problem, or is it just me?Holy mackerel, Chrome is leaving Webkit in 10 weeks http://t.co/tL7EcZ0GOi@cardeo I hope you didn't write that tweet while on the treadmill at the gym ;)I made a Sublime Text plugin to increment/decrement the number that is under caret https://t.co/uUCTmdDezV (it's a fork of VintageNumbers)The making of Medium from @teehanlax - so much good stuff in here: http://t.co/hTi92T9b79
Retweeted by Jonathan NicolTravel to Mars in 428,000 pixels http://t.co/h82X4GqVRU
Retweeted by Jonathan NicolI just merged the first pull request on one of my github repos. Disappointed not to have received some sort of badge or trophy.
4/5
2013
Ah crap. My son seems to be tweeting to my account again.Maybe I can help you. I am Boba Fatt. #Bespin #AngryBirdsStarWars http://t.co/SMsvLJIlig
4/4
2013
(This comic puts my last tweet in context: http://t.co/OncHE3i8av)It seems HBO have learned their lesson. S03E01 of Game of Thrones is available on iTunes Australia only a few days after screening in the US
4/3
2013
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