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Elliot Jay Stocks
elliotjaystocks.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2007
Elliot Jay Stocks, a designer and typographer, writes about web typography, design tools, Adobe products and his working setup.
What HN saysHN links it for posts on typography, text justification and hyphenation, and "Good riddance, PayPal." Commenters also cite his approach to choosing computers.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Good riddance, PayPal3 people · 713 points · first shared 2012 · 261 comments on HN
- 2Adobe's Digital Publishing mistake1 people · 4 points · first shared 2011 · 1 comments on HN
- 3Adobe Muse: a step in the wrong direction1 people · 4 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 4The Search for a Spotify Alternative1 people · 3 points · first shared 2026 · 1 comments on HN
- 5A better Photoshop grid for responsive web design1 people · 3 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 6How can we stop the design thieves?1 people · 3 points · first shared 2008 · 9 comments on HN
- 7Free HTML / CSS for type & palette proposals1 people · 3 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 8The typography-out approach in the world of browser-based web design1 people · 3 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 9The correct way to set font-weight for web fonts1 people · 3 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 10Build your profile to get more freelance work1 people · 2 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 11Working for half a day to be more productive1 people · 2 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 12Write off the first hour of work1 people · 2 points · first shared 2008 · 1 comments on HN
- 13The cloud-centric Mac set-up: 8 months on1 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 14Hello, I'm a Human Being1 people · 2 points · first shared 2013 · 1 comments on HN
- 15Web designers that can't do markup1 people · 2 points · first shared 2010 · 5 comments on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
joshwa · 2007-11-21
I dunno, these designs feel very "2001 ad agency microsite" to me. Nothing post-web-2.0 about them, more like pre-web-2.0.
This is what happened when you take your best print designers and set them loose on the web. How do you suppose those sites render once you much with text size? Usability/web standards did not suddenly go out of vogue, did they?
Ooo, the original presentation has much more actual content:
http://elliotjaystocks.com/blog/archive/2007/destroy-the-web-20-look-f…
SenHeng · 2022-06-09
I have a similar philosophy, inspired by Elliot J. Stocks [0]
I want the beefiest small computer for out of office use while at the same time the beefiest computer for in office use. So for the past decade, I've been using the 11" MBA -> 12" rMB for my mobile computer, while my office machines have been the 2012 Mac Mini -> 2018 Mac Mini -> Mac Studio Max. The rMB has definitely been getting long in the tooth and I've been waiting for the M2 MBA.
[0]: https://elliotjaystocks.com/blog/a-cloud-centric-mac-set-up
chrismorgan · 2021-09-17
> even Internet Explorer used Knuth-Plass to justify text
I haven’t heard of this before, and I don’t believe it’s at all correct.
Searching, I’m finding only https://elliotjaystocks.com/blog/justification-hyphenation/ to be relevant: “Internet Explorer, which seems to use the Knuth / Plass algorithm, or an approximation of it, enabled through the text-justify: newspaper CSS property.” `text-transform: newspaper` is nothing like Knuth-Plass: rather, it was what is currently spelled `text-transform: inter-character`, which is a terrible idea for English.
circa · 2014-02-11
Thanks for sharing. For nearly 10 years I managed and engineered a large e-commerce site. I learned a ton in the process. These posts always hurt. I feel the pain.
Also, reminds me of this post a while back - http://elliotjaystocks.com/blog/good-riddance-paypal/
"PayPal have all the power of a bank and yet none of the responsibility."
DanBC · 2012-03-23
(http://elliotjaystocks.com/blog/pirated/)
Mentions this screenshot:
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/elliotjaystocks/516412232/)
See also the (now dead, unfortunately) pirated sites.
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/piratedsites/)
(http://www.pirated-sites.com/)
lowboy · 2013-04-17
http://money.cnn.com/2013/01/21/technology/paypal-frozen-funds/index.h…
http://conferencesburnedbypaypal.tumblr.com/
http://elliotjaystocks.com/blog/good-riddance-paypal/
http://open-source-scotland.com/2012/news/oss2012-is-hereby-cancelled/
http://www.xbmc4xbox.org.uk/2013/01/paypal-guilty-until-proven-innocen…
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/103385-PayPal-Freezes-750K-i…