Shaun Inman

Let me cast my vote for Shaun Inman, whose two web apps are brilliantly designed and brilliantly functional. His homepage is pretty dandy, too: http://shauninman.com

https://waitbutwhy.com/ - so good https://dcgross.com/ - good design, smart guy http://www.paulgraham.com/ - classic https://mtlynch.io - love the openness https://www.gwern.net/ - love the design. very well organized https://coderscat.com/ - some fun projects https://shauninman.com/ - simple but good And shameless plug of my own: https://www.hugomontenegro.com/

I'm totally jealous about https://www.monokai.nl/ and https://shauninman.com/pendium/. IMO some of the best personal sites.

Here are a couple of my favorites: http://okaysamurai.com/portfolio/okaydave2006.html - It was built in Flash over 10 years ago, but the skill and creativity behind it is a force that is absolutely still relevant today. http://shauninman.com/pendium/

Love Base64 encoding... for anyone looking to optimize their CSS, check out Shaun Inman's CSS Cacheer... it can automatically inline images using that encoding: http://www.shauninman.com/archive/2008/05/30/check_out_css_cacheer Sorry for slightly OT, but I really do love Base64...

TL,DR: If PICO-8 is your highest priority, no preferable alternative exists anywhere near the RGB30's price point. The next best options are probably the TRIMUI Smart Pro or the Miyoo Mini v4, but both have serious shortcomings relative to the RGB30, including the fact that neither can run the PICO-8 binary natively, and the workarounds they employ can negatively impact performance¹ ². At any price, Android or FPGA-based devices are non-starters, and I would strongly discourage you from considering anything with a 640x480 (or 320x240) display. The Steam Deck might be the best handheld for playing PICO-8, but it's much more expensive and a fundamentally different device. Similarly, the Anbernic RG552 could be an attractive option if it isn't your primary/only gaming handheld AND price isn't a factor. ========== A good PICO-8 handheld has one absolutely mandatory quality, it must be able to run PICO-8. That may seem ridiculously obvious, but it's important to note that there is no Android port of PICO-8, and therefore most Retroid, AYN, and AYANEO offerings, as well as many Anbernic devices (as well as any other Android-based retro handhelds) can't run PICO-8 natively. While emulation is technically possible, it's incredibly complicated and only barely works³. (Sidenote: other than the RGB30, the only 1:1 720p retro handheld in development that I'm aware of is the ZPG A1 Unicorn⁴. Regrettably, it will run Android, which is a huge bummer.) This issue is even more pronounced…

layouts in CSS are easy while relationships between elements are simple. CSS is a poor solution for layouts that require complex constraints between elements that have no direct child/parent or sibling relationship. Think application layout as opposed to brochure website layout. Also, CSS is quite silly. Why do I set margin:auto when I want to horizontally center something? The tricks we all learn to muscle CSS into doing what we want require a ridiculous kind of mental gymnastics. Layout should be declarative and separated from simple presentation such as color etc. Another fault of CSS is its relationship to HTML source order. This makes designs inherently brittle in the sense that simple HTML changes can require a CSS overhaul. CSS selectors also have their issues. Yes they're powerful and can be used to great effect, but there are holes such as no parent selectors. Here's an interesting proposal that hilights the usefulness of this feature [2] As soon as we reach the limitation of CSS (and in a complex application layout you'll reach them quickly) then you have to reach for JS and basically create your own little layout engine! The people developing GridStyleSheets [1] are on to a really good thing. They are working on a JS adaptation of the Cassowary constraint solver (the same one used in Apple's autolayout feature). If you're interested in finding out more, check out their website. They do a good job of illustrating CSS's shortcomings and they have a working…

I self-host an instance of https://feedafever.com/ which works nicely with https://www.reeder.ch/ on my iPhone and Mac at home and also quite nicely online (at work, but psst, don't tell anyone). Fever is unsupported, though [1], but it's still working nicely. Once it stops working, I'll switch to something that's supported by Reeder, which is an indispensable piece of software for me. [1]: https://shauninman.com/archive/2016/12/24/goodbye_mint_goodbye_fever

The author has been weirdly reluctant to support new OS features, but I've been using Day-O[1] for years, it has a customizable time format[2] that could easily do 8601 [1] https://shauninman.com/archive/2016/10/20/day_o_2_mac_menu_bar_clock [2] https://shauninman.com/day-o/datetime.html

Mint Analytics has been around since 2005 [1], while the Mint finance software started in 2006 as 'MyMint' and bought the Mint.com domain name in 2007 [2]. [1] http://www.shauninman.com/archive/2005/06/13/overwhelming_response [2] http://web.archive.org/web/20070526095931/http://startupsquad.com/2007…

I wouldn't count on it. http://shauninman.com/archive/2013/03/14/fire

Regarding clock web apps, try Shaun Inman's Metroid Other M-inspired clock[1]. http://shauninman.com/clock/#24

This is a nice little starter intro to CSS for forms. To be really useful, it'd have to demo some of the harder elements to style, the hardest being inputs for uploading files. I haven't seen a technique yet that doesn't require some javascript to compensate for browser quirks: http://www.shauninman.com/archive/2007/09/10/styling_file_inputs_with_…

Caveat: http://shauninman.com/archive/2013/03/14/fire

– MPlayerX (http://mplayerx.org/) Great standalone video player - Perian (http://perian.org) Perian lets quicktime run almost any video format. Unfortunately it's not under active development. Still useful to have installed regardless. – Google Chrome (http://www.google.com/chrome) Don't install Flash unless you have to. Chrome has it built in. I use Safari for most of my browsing and switch to Chrome when I want to use flash. – If you aren't going to install Flash, then install YouTube5 (http://www.verticalforest.com/youtube5-extension/) It's a Safari extension that lets you watch YouTube videos natively without Flash. - Day-O (http://www.shauninman.com/archive/2011/10/20/day_o_mac_menu_bar_clock) Adds a drop down calendar to the menubar. - Alfred (http://www.alfredapp.com/) Another vote for Alfred. Much quicker and more powerful than Spotlight. - 1Password (https://agilebits.com/onepassword) Remembers passwords/logins and makes it super easy to auto login to sites.