A Gentle Introduction to HTML5

Getting started with HTML5

For better or worse, the term HTML5 is being used for not only the actual HTML spec, version five, but for a whole collection of related technologies including (but not limited to) CSS3, ECMAScript5 (aka Javascript), and various spin-off technologies like geolocation, WebGL and client-side data storage. Read →

Dethe Elza • May 29, 2010 • 7 min read

The Complexity of Simplicity

I have been thinking a lot about simplicity recently, and for some time. I’m going to use John Maeda’s book, The Ten Laws of Simplicity, as a jumping-off point, not because I necessarily agree that there are ten laws and these are them, but because when I was reading it they reminded me, for whatever reason, of the ten sephiroth in Kabbalah, leading to the image above. Read →

Dethe Elza • Mar 14, 2010 • 3 min read

Life after Wordpress

sketchy flower Flower graphic drawn using Harmony

One hack too many

This is a post that took more than a year to write, working off and on for many nights and weekends. Read →

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