Today marks five years since I launched the website that my mom still refers to as ' the other bedbugs '. Happy business birthday to me! Any site that aspires to be an archive starts life with a credibility problem. The Internet is strewn with the corpses (or in some cases, zombies) of sites that…

By Tristan Deerman* Four years ago, I wrote a piece on heroin use for Newcity . Since then, I moved to New York, hit rock bottom, and returned to Chicago. Much has developed over the past four years. While I was in New York, a major heroin bust (the Dana Bostic ring on the West Side) was responsible…

When graphic design work is reproduced, what rights do the people who made this work have? This piece looks at some of the issues, and at what United Kingdom law has to say about them. Reproduction of works of art presents a connected set of issues, and these will be looked at in a following…

PLUS: David Granger on 'The Shooter' in D.C. Published in the March 2013 issue Phil Bronstein is the former editor of the San Francisco Chronicle and currently serves as executive chairman of the Center for Investigative Reporting . This piece was reported in cooperation with CIR. A correction is…

Srcset and sizes March 24, 2014 Part 1: What’s Wrong With Media Queries? So let’s say you’re making a web page sometime between February 23rd, 1993 and May 25th, 2010 . Images are easy! Simply: Look at your fixed-width layout Measure exactly how many pixels on each and every user’s screen you will…

It’s been a weird and awesome couple of months. Our expectations for our tiny game were well, fairly tiny. Basically, we hoped it’d do better than Puzzlejuice. It did. By a lot. It’s still hard to address the world’s response with something beyond a wide-eyed daze but essentially we couldn’t be more…

“I’m Yogi, aren’t I?” A rhetorical question. Mercifully, I’m not the one who brings up the subject of his nickname. Ian Stannard does that for me. Nonetheless, I feel duty bound to agree with him. “Yes, you are.” “Yogi Bear. It’s well and truly stuck, unfortunately.” He looks wistful. I nod…

This is the text version of a talk I gave on February 14, 2014 , at Webstock in Wellington, New Zealand. There's some material here that I skipped over during the actual talk, for lack of time. You can read the thing straight through or just skip to the angry rant. OUR COMRADE THE ELECTRON In 1952,…

“Rob Warner rang me the other day...” The man on the bed in the spinal injuries unit started laughing, natural unforced mirth. I hadn’t expected that. “He said: 'Fucking hell, mate, you've got some dark days ahead!’” “He's such a comfort!” I said. “Oh my God! But he is, though, at the same time he…

As pointed out by Stepen Coles yesterday, Ars Technica wrote about a modified version of Lucida Grande, “optimized for Retina displays”, in their review of the new Mac OS 10.9 “Mavericks” . So, what exactly could make a font “optimized for Retina” and which modifications did Apple make? Always…