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fonts and such
I've always had a mild fascination with fonts. after my old boss came to me and had me create a font for him I've gotten into making fonts for myself. I've always had a mind for organization and I find font making to be a very monotonous task in a good way.
I've made myself about 6 fonts since then, and I love doing it. I will have more to say ( Read more... ) -
coding is hard
There is nothing more frustrating than coding a lot of things, and then realizing that in order to move forward with a project, you must now recode all those things. You must check for new redundancies. You must correct new errors, while improving old hacks. It's annoying as all get out, and I have to do it CONSTANTLY.
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Jquery problem with cached images having height and width of 0
So I managed to solve a major problem in jquery, an issue that apparently plagues many people ( Read more... ) -
the death of the music video
Have you ever heard the song "video killed the radio star"? Well I believe the opposite has happened now. The MP3 has killed the video star. It's possible that this is based merely on my own perception, but I haven't watched a music video on purpose in years. I have no doubt that they're still being produced, but the machine that was present in the ( Read more... ) -
jquery just saved me a year
well... maybe not a WHOLE year. it's amazing what you can do when you don't have to write the code to loop through a bunch of somethings, or do checks on anything ( Read more... ) -
work getting done
I have been doing a lot of working on my portfolio. And when i say work on my portfolio, i mean that i have been working on the code that runs my portfolio. Some of you might not know this, but i love coding. It makes me quite happy. If you go to hamiltondraws.com/portfolio, you can see the very work that i have been doing. Mainly i've been ( Read more... ) -
i tire of the old ways
i am sitting on the toilet thinking about how things have gone down recently. it's always hard to figure things out in the moment, and i often find myself pondering topics long into the night when sleep would be preferable.
i want to be happy. i want to live a life where i learn the skills that let me do the things i enjoy, and allow me to use my ( Read more... ) -
in which i wait for a new computer
I found a computer at one point, and now I am using it for some basic work. I think when my new computer comes in, I might set this one up as some sort of lowend server ( Read more... ) -
In which once again I abandon my blog
It certainly has been a long time since I posted anything on the Internet that wasn't on facebook. It's not because I have forgotten you, journal, mainly its a thing of convenience, and I haven't felt like talking ( Read more... ) -
in which i return
i haven't had my own computer in months. i've been using victoria's, because she is kind and generous, and because both of my laptops have gone to shit. it saddens me actually. to think of how much computing power i have just lying around wasted. sigh ( Read more... )