Jared Smith

I’m writing this in Safari, the genesis of the WebKit project, while listening to music on Spotify, a WebKit-based music player. On my other monitor is GitHub’s Atom, a really damned fine programmers’ editor that has its roots in WebKit (to the point where you can inspect it and change the UI with stylesheets). Just … Continue reading WebKit Rules the World - Jared Smith

Unfortunately, for a couple days it looks like none of you were able to get your fix of largely outdated blog posts. I’m not terribly sure why the pool for jaredwsmith.com was trying to allocate a metric crap-ton of memory, but I’ve got it all fixed and running some newer stuff as well, including a … Continue reading Apologies for the Crash - Jared Smith

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New-Look Padres, Back in Brown. http://t.co/7GZVRYMZil @Padres @PadresMikeDee @gaslampball @LobShots pic.twitter.com/zEuYJmR78F — John Brubaker (@johnbrubaker) January 8, 2015 I love everything about these uniform concepts. It would bring a true sense of identity back to San Diego — the Padres have looked Dodger-lite for far too long. Liked this post? Follow this blog to get … Continue reading Bring Back the Brown - Jared Smith

Six Colors, Jason Snell’s (formerly of Macworld) new site, is powered by Movable Type. I worked daily on Movable Type when I was at ReadWriteWeb. Despite how I would tend to curse some of its quirks, I grew to be quite fond of several of its features and implementations, notably its publishing to static files, … Continue reading Movable Type Lives - Jared Smith

So many people are thankful people are part of their great year and want to make sure their Twitter friends don’t get left out. - Jared Smith

It hasn’t been a great year for everybody, Facebook. - Jared Smith

Long-time readers will know of my affinity for the music played on the Weather Channel’s Local on the 8s until its relaunch earlier this year. I’ve been slowly curating a Spotify playlist with many of the songs played over the years on The Weather Channel; it is remarkable just how much is out there. This … Continue reading The Weather Channel Playlist on Spotify - Jared Smith

The other day, I upgraded my wife’s MacBook Air to OS X Yosemite. Immediately, her first concern was that the UI text was harder to read. This is, in part, due to Helvetica Neue replacing Lucida Grande, but also because Yosemite’s LCD font smoothing seems rather harsh on non-Retina. Fortunately, a Terminal command makes for … Continue reading Improve Yosemite’s text display on non-Retina displays - Jared Smith

"The Breaking News Consumer's Handbook" http://t.co/f4poDgObic pic.twitter.com/tsomE3xUf5 — pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) December 21, 2014 Needed now more than ever. - Jared Smith

More on Twenty Fifteen, the new default WordPress theme in WordPress 4.1 is available at the Codex; there are a lot of really elegantly-implemented features (such as the social icons you now see on the left — very clever!) - Jared Smith

I’ve upgraded to WordPress 4.1 and its Twenty Fifteen theme here at jaredwsmith.com. I like it! Looking forward to doing some additional customizations with all this free time I have (sarcasm implied). - Jared Smith

Iowa is testing a digital drivers’ license next year. This kind of thing would be quite handy at places like bars and going through airport security, but I would strongly think twice about using one of these at a traffic stop. It is completely unclear from the press release regurgitation on Techmeme if the officials […] - Jared Smith

It’s great to see NASA’s next-generation space capsule, Orion, have as good of a liftoff as you could hope for today for its first (unmanned) test flight. - Jared Smith