An Adaptive Image Technique: Thinking out loud

I’ve been playing a lot with responsive layouts, and the inevitable bugbear of adaptive images for responsive designs. Ethan Marcotte’s Fluid Images is what I’ve been playing with most, particularly via Matt Wilcox’s Adaptive Images script, and dreaming of the <picture> solution proposed by Mat Marquis. But and so, I’ve been doodling and fooling around with [...]

WherePost: now even more useful!

Since I launched Where Post? on Friday morning, the response has been pretty gratifying. My thanks to David Eaves for his nice post about Where Post? this morning. I launched the app with a total of 28 mailboxes and 1 post office. Since then, 29 contributors have added in another 400-odd mailboxes and about 20 [...]

Introducing: Where Post?

Where Post? is a small web-app I wrote over a couple of evenings this week to serve a very particular purpose: To help me, and anyone else, find their nearest mailbox. The site should work on iPhones, Windows Phones & Androids. It’s meant to run as an app, so you can install it to your home [...]

Greasemonkey VPL Catalogue Listings Script for Amazon

So David Eaves posted “5 Municipal apps I’d love to see“. One of them was an extension of an existing Greasemonkey script to search local library catalogue listings when browsing Amazon. So I downloaded Bryan Larsen’s Ottawa library script, modified it to look up in the Vancouver library, and have now posted in on Userscripts.org, [...]