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Below is a collection of every post made since this blog was launched on New Year’s Day, 2008. If you don’t fancy digging through the lists, try using the search form or get in touch.

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Posts by Popularity

Span-Free Gradient Text Effect (15 Comments)
First Edition (9 Comments)
Flying Visits with Boot Camp: The Switcheroo (6 Comments)
Too Little, Too Soon (5 Comments)
Anticipating ExpressionEngine 2.0 (5 Comments)
Changing the Boot Camp Drive Icon (5 Comments)
Growing Up with the Web (5 Comments)
Top 5 Lesser Known Web Apps (5 Comments)
AltFontPrev (4 Comments)
Building a Better Blocklist (3 Comments)

Posts by Month

2008

July (1 Post)
May (1 Post)
April (1 Post)
March (2 Posts)
February (1 Post)
January (6 Posts)

Latest Posts

AltFontPrev: The release of AltFontPrev, a JavaScript bookmarklet for previewing any site with the alternative fonts declared in its CSS.; Read Post; Posted: Jul 20, 08; In: JavaScript; 4 Comments
Blogging with Coda: What was planned to be a quick guide to replicating MarsEdit’s live preview feature in Coda. How time flies when you’re having fun! :); Read Post; Posted: May 24, 08; In: How-To's; 2 Comments
Too Little, Too Soon: The first post in the Life category, touching on the lack of posts the site has seen recently and what I aim to do about it.; Read Post; Posted: Apr 1, 08; In: Life; 5 Comments

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Sam Rayner is a 17 year old web developer from Birmingham, UK. When he’s not pushing pixels or grumbling about IE Sam enjoys music, sport, photography and writing about himself in third person. You can reach him at sam@samrayner.com.

Quicklinks

Justwatchthesky

Simmy re-launches Justwatchthesky as an exercise in documenting words in the music I listen to with color and type. Something I’ve always wanted to do, done so, so right.

Jul 22
Solar with Lyrics by Flight404

A mesmerising visualisation to Goldfrapp’s ‘Lovely Head’ made with Processing. (Via Mark)

Jul 20
David Ford - State of the Union

Watch your step by the crowd of fanatics,
While they kill in the name of applied mathematics,
Hate the system even though you invented it,
Go kill your brothers and claim self defence of it.
Wow. What a video for a debut single.

Jul 11
Handwritten Typographers

These people that help us communicate… how do they themselves communicate? If we strip away the monitors, and the printing presses, and the typefaces… how would William Caslon have written on a post-it note? An interesting study from Cameron Adams.

Jul 11
Toronto Sky Time-Lapse

Frames were imported into after effects and the highlights of each frame stays and is added to the next frame and so on; causing the trails for the planes, helicopters and stars to stay for the whole duration. Beautiful.

Jul 4

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Latest Comments

Thomas Wright on AltFontPrev: 3 days, 6 hours ago; I love the way bookmarklets are growing into proper little apps. Mr James is absolutely spot on: the UI super-neat!…
wes on AltFontPrev: 3 days, 14 hours ago; thanks for sharing I am going to try this out… It seems like a fun tool
Sam Rayner on Changing the Boot Camp Drive Icon: 4 days, 8 hours ago; Well personally I’d just use the default drive icon for that John, but I suppose you could make one with…