A day in the life: January 13, 2011

A day in the life, is a series of blog posts in which I keep the posting window open all day, providing trivial updates to what I am doing. Unlike twitter I eventually formulate one-large conscientious thought, rather than series of meaningless “happenings”. Ultimately I provide a record of what I did the entire day.

Right now it is 8:00 am. Two alarms rang this morning, my computer woke up from sleep and I started today off with a shower like I normally do. As I am trying to find clothes to wear I am folding my laundry while watching the latest episode of The Totally Rad Show, they gave The Green Hornet movie a “meh” rating. In an effort to clear my google reader this blog post from one of my favorite design blogs catches my eye. It’s of this totally gnarly ultra modern house in Brazil, would love to live in this type of environment. Whip open gmail and I am about to clear out all of my sitting-read imbox e-mails, however being detoured by blogging. Inbox is clear, cup of warm tea in my hand I’m ready to dive into the web frontier…

Now the time is 9:22 am. I am starting in the most likely of places, with Paul Irish as my guide I yesterday dove into HTML5 Boilerplate and can now make out what most of the code is (thanks to his video). Now I am off for more supplementary information located here, standards people, they’re important. Right off the bat something that peaked my interest is the idea of “compress(ing) and gzip(ing) all static client-side files” automatically sounds really freaking sweet. The W3C validator is a valuable tool in debugging plane ol’ HTML, because even if you write crappy HTML it will still run due to no draconian error handling. I like the idea of static content domains, or CDN, or cookieless domain, and would like to implement one (if applicable) on reggi-three-point-zero. I discovered that new twitter has no, no-JavaScript fallback (original tweet) what’s up with that?

Now the time is 11:11am. I decided to take a break from all of the lcd-screen-reading and after a quick rock out session in the Guitar Hero Room™. I am ready to turn on thesixtyone and read up some more on microformats or fix my resumé and get some semantics in the hizzy. Just discovered the chrome developer tools, *drops jaw*, it’s like firebug on roids. Nice job posterous for using actual html5 tags on the theme I am currently using. I’m curious to see how different posterous theming is from tumblr themeing. The code is nearly identical. Spent a good hour or two attempting to parse the HTML dom for tumblr / posterous variables with jQuery, epic failure I think cufon in the theme was overwriting shizz, anyway a quick google search for “local tumblr theme development” led me to this github repo, mindblowing. I want something like this for both wordpress and posterous.

Now the time is 2:09pm. I feel like diving into rails 3, *rubs hands together*, wish me luck! I learned so much rails stuff, and object oriented programming is really starting to make sense. I wen’t to bed around ~ 11:00pm.