Justin Allen

In Defense of PHP

In Defense of PHP

Sympathy for the Most Hated Programming Language The culture, politics and aesthetics around programming languages is a weird topic not many can write about eloquently. I’m always intrigued to read an attempt to tackle that stuff and this blog is...

WTF is ASCII?

WTF is ASCII?

ASCII is a standard set of encoded characters that is deeply embedded in the world’s computing infrastructure and that of the Internet.

Notes on Faux-Letterpress

Notes on Faux-Letterpress

Print-like effects and retro typography are very popular in web design right now, and one of nicest borrowings from print is the faux-letterpress effect. With broader support of CSS3, you can produce this effect using stylesheets alone in the web...

Up With Markdown

Up With Markdown

If you’re a blogger, web writer, content editor, maybe by now you’ve heard something about Markdown. If you’re a web developer you’ve almost certainly heard of it – but this is a tool that really deserves to be known more widely. Markdown is a...