Wordius
Wordius
Jeff Porter
Freelance journalist, editor, and I enjoy experimenting on the web. But, above all, I am human.
Latest Posts
Brain Pickings editor Maria Popova serves up more ‘interestingness’ in Virginia Woolf on the Creative Benefits of Keeping a Diary. [M]y belief that the habit of writing thus for my own eye only is good practice. It loosens the ligaments....
Offscreen magazine #4, Jeremy Keith interview Offscreen #4 features some fine web folks, including Dave Greiner, Timoni West, Loren Brichter, Brad Smith and Daniel Weinand, but the reason I’ve been so looking forward to issue #4 is the...
Ever since reading Ethan Marcotte’s Sizing the legible letter in 2011, I’ve been taken by the rem as a proportional unit for measuring the size of type. For far longer, I was against using the em, the compounding proportional unit that...
The thought of making my blog responsive has always struck fear where it wasn’t wanted. Fear, that is, of breaking my blog, discovering I didn’t have the necessary back-ups to reassemble the static status quo, and having to start over....
In another great guest piece on the I Love Typography blog, Joanne Meister, owner and creative director of Oregon-based designmeister, recounts a chance tutelage under eminent Swiss graphic designer Josef Müller-Brockmann: I still...
Paperless GTD aficionados will quake in their task managers at the thought, but the new year brings for me a new Filofax. Apps are all well and good, but I’m far from ready to dismiss pen and paper entirely from my arsenal of writing,...
If you’ve ever found yourself scrabbling around looking for that elusive readme file and a reminder of how to insert images in Markdown, or the correct syntax for inserting interactive HTML5 content in your code, Cheaters is probably...
After reading Tyler Reinhard’s Getting Things Done with Semantic Notes a couple of days ago, I was keen to start implementing the system immediately. While I wouldn’t describe my note-taking system as chaotic, it certainly isn’t GTD...
Last night when I tapped a link in @MacDrifter’s RSS feed in Mr Reader (since closed) on my iPad, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Two hours later I’d read, and re-read, Tyler Reinhard’s Getting Things Done with Semantic Notes. Reinhard...
One of my clients uses a font that only includes the proportional figure style, but prefers figures in text to display as oldstyle. In order to achieve this I have to deploy a second font, a small-caps version. This creates a problem for...
In How I Made a 26-Hour Day, on Svbtle, Andrew Dumont describes how rearranging his day led to significant productivity improvements: Wait a minute, didn’t I just wake up two hours earlier? Well, yes. But I optimized my day,...
This past year has been one of trials and tribulations. I’ve tried out many more apps, both free and paid, than you will find listed in this post. Some apps hung around for a while; others were swiftly discarded. With one exception, I...
There are countless apps for taking screenshots on a Mac. So many, that it’s easy to forget this facility is baked in to OS X. I was reminded of this when I wanted a screenshot of a specific application window. Should I launch Skitch and...
Keith Houston, of the Shady Characters blog, says farewell to 2012 with another link-littered post full of punctuative goodness. Miscellany №21 includes reference to Ralf Hermann’s Typographic Myth Busting: What’s a Ligature, Anyway?:...
Note: Mono Social Icons font has since replaced Pictos icon fonts on this website. There are a number of reasons for choosing an icon font over a bitmap image: Bitmaps are poor at scaling Bitmaps require more http requests Bitmaps are...