Fuck yeah Keming! Design, 30/05, 0
Keeping profanity in the title like last week, Fuck yeah Keming is the title of a new blog that I started, a celebration of horrendous kerning all over the internet.
Kilian Valkhof
Front-end developer, user experience designer & Jedi.
Statlas beta release
Web, 18 July 2011, 3 commentsMaking an editor for maps using 100% web technologies had never been done before so it was a really exciting project and I jumped at the chance
For the past few months me and the rest of the guys at Fluxility have been working on Statlas, a website that makes it super easy for anyone to make cool maps based on data they have. We just released the beta, so you’re all invited to come and play with it. Or read on for some more background information…
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In January I came across a website that had a whole slew of JavaScript that attempted to prevent you from selecting text, right clicking or dragging any content onto your desktop. I decided to copy the JavaScript and create a library with examples of JavaScript techniques you can use if you want to scare your visitors away, or want to piss them off. Annoying.js is the result.
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Projects & Work
SenCSs supplies sensible styling for all repetetive parts of your CSS, allowing you to focus on actually developing your website's style.
Grafico is an opiniated javascript SVG charting library with a wide array of graphs and a feature-full API.
Trimage image compressor is a cross-platform GUI front-end to losslessy compress PNG and JPG images.
Lystener shows you the lyrics you're listening to now and easily lets you share them on Twitter and Facebook by simply selecting them.