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The Art of Visual Storytelling

Bramus! — Thu, 23 May 2013 11:05:33 +0000

This makes me want to switch jobs.

The Application Cache is no longer a Douchebag

Bramus! — Tue, 21 May 2013 11:28:54 +0000

A new command for the Firefox Command Line (part of the Developer Tools) named appcache to manipulate/inspect the appcache. As someone commented on the original post:

Somebody has recently pointed out that the appcache is still a douchebag but at least Firefox now has a way to tell us why.

The Application Cache is no longer a Douchebag →

Note: here’s the original Application Cache is a Douchebag article.

The History of Typography

Bramus! — Mon, 13 May 2013 12:41:15 +0000

A paper-letter animation about the history of fonts and typography.

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Ghostlab — Synchronized testing for web and mobile.

Bramus! — Wed, 08 May 2013 15:42:27 +0000

Ghostlab synchronizes scrolls, clicks, reloads and form input across all connected clients. This means what you’re testing is not the simple page load, but the full user experience.

The concept behind it is dead simple actually: start a webserver serving the project and inject some .js which keeps all connected browsers in sync using websockets.

Ghostlab →

Instagram People Tagging

Bramus! — Thu, 02 May 2013 22:27:55 +0000

Introducing Photos of You →

The McDonald’s Theory of Bad Ideas

Bramus! — Wed, 01 May 2013 14:13:09 +0000

I use a trick with co-workers when we’re trying to decide where to eat for lunch and no one has any ideas. I recommend McDonald’s.

An interesting thing happens. Everyone unanimously agrees that we can’t possibly go to McDonald’s, and better lunch suggestions emerge. Magic!

Remember: There are no bad ideas while brainstorming!

McDonald’s Theory →

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Apple vs. Samsung wedding fight

Bramus! — Wed, 01 May 2013 14:10:45 +0000

Aren’t you a little young to have an iPhone?

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Responsive Inspector

Bramus! — Wed, 01 May 2013 14:03:52 +0000

Responsive Inspector is a simple Google Chrome extension that allows viewing media queries of visited websites. It is very useful when developing responsive web layouts as it can visually show what resolutions are defined in css stylesheets.

Responsive Inspector →

Indie Game Devs vs. Piracy

Bramus! — Wed, 01 May 2013 14:00:50 +0000

When we released our very first game, Game Dev Tycoon yesterday, we did something unusual and as far as I know unique. We released a cracked version of the game ourselves, minutes after opening our Store.

The cracked version is nearly identical to the real thing except for one detail … as players spend a few hours playing and growing their own game dev company, they will start to see the message pictured above, styled like any other in-game message.

And then the developers started looking up threads online where (pirate) users are complaining about them being affected by piracy and how hard it ruins them. Some hilarious stuff!

Above that I don’t see any reason why one would not buy it: it’s reasonably priced (7 EUR), DRM Free, and you can run it on the default threesome of platforms (Win/OS X/Linux).

What happens when pirates play a game development simulator and then go bankrupt because of piracy? →

Grand Theft Auto V: Michael. Franklin. Trevor.

Bramus! — Wed, 01 May 2013 13:53:02 +0000

New GTA V Teaser. Looking forward to this one!