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Size does matter
Big Science needs big names. Here are some of the names of existing and planned telescopes: There’s the Very Large Telescope and Very Large Array, the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), the now scrapped plan for an Overwhelmingly Large Telescope (OWL) and of course El Gran Telescopio in the Canary…
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Downtown canoeing, part 2
This weekend my wife and I took a kayaking course at the Varala Sports Institute here in Tampere (Varalan urheiluopisto). The highlight of the course was definitely paddling into the center of town for a cup of coffee on Saturday morning. We couldn’t have asked for better weather!
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SASS, LESS and nesting overload
Both SASS and LESS are really nice tools for CSS developers. Both have the ability to nest selectors like this: #header { h1 { font-size: 3em } p { font-size: 1.2em } } …which compiles to #wrapper h1 { font-size: 3em } #wrapper p { font-size: 1.2em } Nesting is really useful, just don’t go…
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Essential Sublime Text Plugins for WordPress Development
Despite the recent Coda 2 update, I find myself doing almost all of my web coding in Sublime Text 2, an excellent and extensible editor for Mac, Windows and Linux. Specifically for WordPress development, I’ve found at least three tools worth installing. (If you’re new to Sublime Text, I recommend installing the Sublime Package Control…
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Venus Transit
This morning was the last chance for over a century to witness Venus transiting the Sun. I got up at 4:00 to make sure I got at least a few good shots. After cycling to a nearby golf course to get an unrestricted view of the Sun, which had just risen, I got a few…
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Fix WordPress Syntax Mode for Coda 2
NOTE: Apparently my version no longer works for Coda > 2.0.2. Try the newer versions made available by Matthew and deryckoe. Thanks guys! If you’ve updated to Coda 2 and have been using the excellent WordPress Syntax Mode by Thorsten, you need to copy it (and any other modes you’ve been using) over to ~/Library/Application…
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Everybody Loves Eye Tracking
Eye tracking can be a terribly useful and important tool. Still, this tweet by Jared Spool struck a chord. It also reminds me of some research I was involved in once. I won’t say which one.
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Flood and Ark by Stephen Baxter
I seem to have read a lot of apocalyptic literature recently. After finishing The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood (highly recommended), I continued on the same theme with Stephen Baxter’s sci-fi novels Flood and Ark. Being a big fan of Arthur C. Clarke, I became acquainted with Baxter’s writing though his collaboration with…
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New Job!
On Monday I became the third employee of H1, a small, family owned web agency based in Helsinki, Finland. Aki and his wife Jaana are both very experienced web professionals, and I’m proud to be working with them. Looking forward to an interesting time!
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Daniel Koskinen 