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tylersticka

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Co-owner and Creative Director at Cloud Four, a small but mighty web design and development company.

I love designing in the browser. I also write articles, design games and draw cartoons.

I collect comic books and video games, my wife collects vinyl, and our dog collects sticks and socks.

Searchable on tootfinder: https://tootfinder.ch

#Design #WebDesign #WebDev #CSS #SVG #Art #GameDev #fedi22

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zachleat, to random
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the arc of arc from “the browser company” wasn’t very long—and through the power of VC funding it inevitably bent towards AI

tylersticka,
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@zachleat I fell for this one and I feel foolish.

I’m considering giving Vivaldi a try before returning to Firefox. The UI change of pace was stimulating.

andycarolan, to random
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Did anyone here have a Dreamcast back in the day? I remember seeing them out in the wild, and it always looked ahead of it's time, especially in connectivity.

tylersticka,
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@andycarolan Back in the day? Mine’s still hooked up!

I gave a mini talk about the console a while back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXwnyu5FFlY

tylersticka,
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@andycarolan @KeefJudge A 56k modem was built in, a broadband adapter was sold separately.

In many ways, the original Xbox was a spiritual Dreamcast successor. Xbox was the next home console to ship with a modem (broadband by then), there’s a Windows CE logo on every Dreamcast, and the consoles share a button layout (even the colors).

Over 100 games had online features. As of today, 36 are still playable online thanks to fan-run servers: https://dreamcastlive.net/games/

tylersticka,
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@robb @andycarolan To my knowledge, Time Crisis was never released for Dreamcast! Confidential Mission is similar in tone, and there was a Virtua Cop port.

(The most fondly remembered Dreamcast light gun games are arguably The House of the Dead series.)

tylersticka,
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@andycarolan Sega’s cash reserve was always tiny compared to Sony and Nintendo. Since Microsoft already had a hand in the Dreamcast, I could see an alternate reality where they acquired Sega instead of starting their Xbox division from scratch.

tylersticka, to random
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@hexagoncircle I was sharing a recent article of yours with my team and I just wanted to say how well-designed your site is, particularly the article pages. I adore the skewed headlines, the iconography (that progress indicator with the stop watch is brilliant) and the playfulness of your quotes and asides.

Have a great day! 🤘

tylersticka, to animals
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Our small furry son is two years old today 😭

tylersticka, to random
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Achievement Unlocked 🏆

Lost half a podcast recording to a software bug 🫠

robb, to random
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No exciting post from me about the Macs 40th anniversary but here’s the 30th anniversary font icons that Apple did for your perusal https://rknightuk.github.io/mac-30-font-svg/

tylersticka,
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@robb “font icons” 🤔

(follows link)

“SVG icons extracted from the 30th Anniversary Mac Font” 🥳

tylersticka, to random
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My brother, Tim Sticka, is an experienced project manager! He’s led planning and execution of UX, accessibility, implementation and marketing projects for agencies and businesses large and small.

Tim is actively looking for his next gig! If you or someone you know has any full-time or contract needs, drop a line to tim sticka at gmail dot com, check out his LinkedIn (https://timsticka.com/) or send me a message!

Boosts appreciated!

sophie, to random
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The flaw with portable chargers: you have to charge them. I only need it in emergencies by which time I’ve nearly always forgotten to charge it 🫠

tylersticka,
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@sophie I have one that is always dead when I need it, and one that always seems to be almost fully charged no matter how long it sits in a drawer (which is worrisome in its own way)

nhoizey, to random
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My bot has gone rogue! 😱

(Sorry.)

tylersticka,
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@nhoizey I heard a rumor that you added new ways to browse your photography website built with Eleventy. 😜

tylersticka, to 11ty
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New career goal: Illustrate a future entry in the mascot series.

@reverentgeek and Geri Coady did a wonderful job, I love @eleventy and I love drawing adorable little chaos gremlins.

A happy mallard with a big grin stands in a grassy patch and waves its wing
A dopy bumble bee with small wings and buck teeth floats just a little above the ground, making “buzz” noises along the way

jonikorpi, to random
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Heh, whatever skeleton crew is still maintaining iTunes Store seems to not be doing so well. All of the music I’ve ever purchased is suddenly “hidden”, leaving it in a broken state in the Music app.

Needed to go to iTunes Store → Account → Downloads and Purchases → Hidden Purchases and use the awful, slow, utterly broken UI to “unhide” them. Had to manually click [Unhide] so many times I got rate-limited.
-_-

tylersticka,
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@jonikorpi I miss Lala: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lala_(website)

But these days I use Plexamp: https://www.plex.tv/plexamp/

DavidDarnes, to random
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After all these years, it’s finally time to see what all the fuss is about

tylersticka,
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@DavidDarnes I doctor mine with a pinch of cumin, some garlic, some black pepper and a generous portion of chili powder, then cut some sausage and stir it in at the end.

(Alternatively, I’ve added some lao gan ma chili crisp, which is delicious but monopolizes the flavor a tad too much to retain that nostalgic taste.)

fonts, to random
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A writing tip for myself in the future: delete every use of “…for me…,” “in my opinion,” “some might disagree,” “I think,” etc. etc. All of these make your writing frail and cowardly, absent of any self-confidence. You can have opinions without apologizing for them! Jeez!

tylersticka,
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@fonts I’ll admit to doing more of this after my “Seriously, Don’t Use Icon Fonts” article resulted in the most passionate backlash I’ve personally received from my writing. Hearing multiple people accuse me of dogmatic, black-and-white thinking (which so isn’t me) was more upsetting than I recognized at the time.

I probably overcorrected. Will have to keep an eye on that now.

robb, to random
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oh yeah this makes sense 🤔

tylersticka,
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@robb 😬

sayomgwtf, to illustration
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Known for his adventurous and imaginative personality

His full name is Snoopy Snooperson Woodstock, paying homage to his feathered best friend.

Snoopy (with glasses, because reasons) ❤️

'Tis Doodle O'Clock ~☆

#Illustration #Drawing #DigitalArt #Comic #Cartoon #Doodle #MastoArt #fanart #peanuts #snoopy

tylersticka,
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@sayomgwtf Rereading Peanuts is my security blanket 💜

Lovely drawing!

robb, to random
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you're not the boss of me, wordpress

tylersticka,
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@robb more like yolopress

[silence]

I said more like…

patrickfulton, to random
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I feel like I’m still trying to build up the list of people I follow on here: who are some front-of-the-frontend devs that I should be following?

tylersticka,
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@cory Aw, thanks, Cory! What a list! 😱

tylersticka, to webdev
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I spoke at 18 different events from 2008 to 2017, when I decided to take a break. I’m feeling the itch again, but I’d love to ease back into it with smaller, remote gatherings (meetups, etc.).

Any suggestions for which events might like to hear from a passionate, multidisciplinary, business-owning web design weirdo like me?

nhoizey, to random French
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Is it worth it maintaining a version of my responsive puzzle game esviji in Google Play Store?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.esviji.twa

Google requires periodic “artificial life support” to check the app is still relevant: API version update, app links from websites, developer account, etc.

The version has been available and installable on its own domain for years,
without any required maintenance:

https://play.esviji.com

⚓️ https://nicolas-hoizey.com/notes/2024/01/09/1/

tylersticka,
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@nhoizey If the download count is low and the maintenance burden is high, I’d understand abandoning it.

tylersticka, to random
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I had another discussion recently about why I try to avoid overusing footnotes, so it seemed a good time to finally wrap up this draft… 🫣 https://tylersticka.com/journal/footnote-trouble/

aardrian, (edited ) to random
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AudioEye Has Dropped Its Suit Against Me
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/01/audioeye-has-dropped-its-suit-against-me.html

(edited this post to add hashtags)

#overlay #AudioEye #accessibility #a11y

tylersticka,
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@aardrian What a nightmare, so glad you’re through it now

sophie, to random
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Is it a trend to have VERY BIG BODY TEXT? I swear I keep seeing like 20px text on people’s websites and if anything it makes it harder for me to read. Easy enough to adjust of course, but I’m surprised I guess?

tylersticka,
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@sophie Earlier today I explained to someone why 11px body copy wasn’t ideal. So I’ll admit after so many years there is a rebellious part of my brain that kinda loves to see the opposite extreme. But audience is so important, and there’s a practical limit.

Related article I wrote a while ago: https://cloudfour.com/thinks/childish-font-sizes/

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