Ryan Giglio | Blog

Switching to Colemak – Part 1 of (?)

For a rather significant portion of my life, I’ve spent most of my time on the computer. After I quit playing sports in high school I developed a rather violent MMO addiction, so between homework, RuneScape, and Counter-Strike (1.6, not Source, because I’m not a noob) I did a lot of sitting, mousing, and typing. [...]

Facebook iframe app development – even the smallest hiccup ruins a good yawn

Preface: This ended up being half rant, half analysis. Still, I’d love for you to read it and feel inspired to not make things more difficult than they need to be when creating a developer platform. Recently, I’ve been getting a lot of work making Facebook Pages for companies. More specifically, I’ve been developing tabs [...]

Complex border-image use

There’s something magical about finally getting the opportunity to use a new technique you’ve been reading about for months. Since CSS3 has been all the rage for a while now, I’ve heard a lot about how powerful the border-image property can be but I’ve never really had an opportunity to put it to use. Then, [...]

I Can’t Find Your RSS Link

Let me detail a situation that happens to me too frequently when browsing the web. On Twitter, someone links to an excellent blog post. I read the post and think that I would like to subscribe to this person’s blog. I glance around their site and see no RSS icon. I cmd-F and search for [...]

Recursion – A Short Story

I’ve been working on this story for the past few months as an assignment for a fiction writing course I was taking. Now that it’s finished, I thought I might share it here. I’ve included the first 2.5 pages, and at the bottom you can download a PDF of the story in its entirety (12 [...]

Why I Disabled Google Instant

I know I’m late weighing in on this issue, but I’ve been thinking about it for a while. Google Instant is a very cool idea and I really don’t want to dislike it, but its frustrated me enough times that I finally turned it off. Pros and cons, shall we? Pro: Instant feedback can be [...]

Be Radical, Or Don’t

When a user arrives at a webpage, there a number of assumptions they immediately make. For example: User: “There’s a big logo at the top. That must be the name of this website.” Obviously this is subconscious; no user would go around the web repeating that to themselves. Try it. It gets old fast. The [...]