The Illusion of Speed

The story of our perception of time, or why things that feel fast are often better than things that are fast.

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Block formatting contexts and lists

If you've been reading about the latest in CSS, you might have read about flow-root. Flow root establishes a new block formatting context, but most have dismissed it as simply replacing clearfix hacks. But consider this extremely common case, where you have a few paragraphs of text, some...

Auto-growing list w/ Flexbox

TL;DR: I did a thing with Flexbox. Here's the CodePen. A couple days ago I was asked to create a the a page for AMPProject.org that would display our roadmap. Which I did. It looks like this: In order to make this design fully responsive, the...

5 reasons for 60 fps

It's easy to state that a higher number is better. It's also easy to get sucked into (albeit interesting) theories and at other times non-researched half-truths when debating film projection technology and frame rate. But there are very simple, very reasonable arguments for not only high...

Frame Rate as creative choice

As much as there are people who will tell you to always use 24fps for a cinematic look, the truth is, the definition of what makes a film look cinematic varies, and maybe you're aiming for something different! Frame rate is as much a creative choice as color,...

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