February 2012
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Dear Internet,
I feel so lucky to get to do the things I do. Every day, I come in to work and get to focus all day on things like “could this be zanier?” and “will this reliably cause users to giggle?” I get to learn new things, put them to use, and then share my creations with the world. And they serve coffee 12 feet away from me, and delicious tacos in the parking lot!...
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Dear Internet,
I have very little to report to you. Progress continues on PixelPix. You can see here the beginnings of a homepage for it, where I have cleverly set up a Twitter scraping bot that looks for tweets mentioning PixelPix that contain a photo, and extracts the photo to make an automagic gallery of awesome.
All of the features are done, and now today I am working on the tutorial that...
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Dear Tumblr,
So, those of you reading my recent journal entries here on Tumblr probably think, “oh look, that pixel art guy is writing stuff now, how not exciting at all.” But the truth is much much less exciting, reader: I have been writing journal entries and posting them on the internet for the better part of my life. I actually just did the math, and it turns out that after an...
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WatchHere’s another video update to show you the progress I’ve made on PixelPix. A LOT of progress! As you can see, with just a few clicks you can very quickly get pretty radical results.
I created an official Twitter account for the app - follow now!
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Dear Tumblr,
We went down to Houston this weekend because Katie’s family threw us a baby shower. We were appropriately showered with gender neutral gifts like yellow puke towels, gray blankets, and a pair of the tiniest Chuck Taylor All Stars you have ever seen. I learned that while baby boys are monkeys and baby girls are princess ponies, children of yet to be determined gender are ducks!...
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WatchThere is a ghost in my record player that thinks it is a DJ.
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Dear Tumblr,
We are going down to Houston this evening for a baby shower that Katie’s family is throwing for her. When we come back, there will be only about 35 days til our kid arrives. Who will it be? I am excited to find out.
Last night I was tweaking settings on the iPhone app and almost by accident created a “magic erase” tool that can delete a photos background in just a...
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Dear Tumblr,
My personal motto is “Launch it!,” so I am pleased to announce yet another XOXCO/Lullabot responsive redesign, this time for Safari Books Online (a subscription service that gives you online access to O’Reilly and other tech books). This was another really big site, with lots of different content types and special pages. Every single type of page looks great and...
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Dear Tumblr,
What was up with Tumblr’s outage last night? I blame David Carp personally for the fact that my posts last night received fewer than average “likes.”
As you may have seen, I made a pretty ridiculous amount of progress on the iPhone app. After leaving work and before going to my brother’s house for chicken fajitas, I was able to implement the sticker menu...
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WatchHere’s a tour of the features I was able to flesh out today, including MULTIPLE LAYERS and PIXEL STICKERS, ZOMG.
January 2012
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WatchWork on the PixelVision interface is coming along at breakneck speed! I just implemented the interface for switching layers. This video shows me importing a photo, pixelizing it, choosing a background color, filling the background layer with that color, and then deleting pixels from the photo layer to expose the background.
RADICAL, AMIRITE?
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Dear Tumblr,
Last night, Katie and I went to a breast feeding class. I learned that breast milk is love, cow milk is the devil and even cows hate it, and that babies who are given bottles grow up to be militant Islamists. I also learned that my nipple piercings will not effect my child’s ability to be breastfed, because, this may shock you, male nipples do not produce milk! WTF?
Readers...
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One of the last things Sebastian did before...
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Dear Tumblr,
I am excited by the things ahead of me this week. My company finished up several large client projects last week, and our next round of projects has not yet begun, so I have time to work on my own pixel art projects.
Over the next few weeks, my goal is to release version 1.1 of Make Pixel Art, and to get version 1.0 of PixelVision submitted to the app store.
MPA 1.1 will include...
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