Rodney Rehm

The 15 conference talks of 2013 I liked most.

I want to share some thoughts on Myth.io — specifically its key idea of being a "CSS polyfill".

Let's talk about accidentally teaching something while explaining something entirely different. Conveying a message within the message. Presenting the reader with information we aren't even really covering.

I've recently given a presentation sitting on a couch on stage, about 5m away from my laptop. I needed a third display to show Keynote's presenter notes at a different location without using any cables. My iPad turned out to be a perfect fit. (Description for Mac OS X Mountain Lion.)

There is no greater failure than showing a white screen. If an application can't run in a given environment ("old" browsers) telling users might not make them upgrade right away. But compared to a blank page they'll actually know what's going on. Here's a (debatable) method to achieve that.