Stephen Tudor

I have been using a new CSS technique for creating fixed footers – that is, footers which pin themselves to the bottom of the browser window – without using JavaScript. Headscape designer Ed Merritt is the one who came up with the idea, and like most elegant solutions, this one is so simple that I wish I’d thought of […]

For my first review of a board game, I’d like to feature a true classic: Ra, by prolific game designer Reiner Knizia. Knizia has designed hundreds of board and card games, but among gamers, Ra is widely considered to be one of his finest creations.

Ra is a Eurogame with a pasted-on Egyptian theme. What I mean […]

In about a week, I’ll be playing bass again for the first time in about a year. I’m really looking forward to it. All things being equal – if I were to lose all my wonderful electric guitar effects pedals (toys) – I think I might even prefer bass guitar over electric.

Bass players are often maligned. […]

One of my favorite web publications, A List Apart, has pushed an article about a new CSS layout technique that the author, Eric Sol, calls Faux Absolute Positioning. Up until now, I’d always relied primarily on floating divs. Other folks preferred using (real) absolute positioning, but that required the use of JavaScript to keep the […]

My response to Michael Arrington’s ignorant story blaming the recently departed Blaine Cook for Twitter’s problems.

Criticizing Twitter and crucifying a departing Twitter engineer are two entirely different things. Taking one of his presentation slides out of context, conjecture, supposition, lack of any credible witnesses or evidence… This isn’t news, it’s a snipe at a […]

A List Apart, the famous online magazine “for people who make websites,” just published a pair of articles that help people who want to start out with Ruby on Rails: Getting Started with Ruby on Rails and Creating More Using Less Effort with Ruby on Rails.

No more than a day later, Digital Web responded with an […]

Somehow, deep down, I always knew I was a Cylon.

These are instructions for how to install nginx (pronounced as “Engine X”, a high-performance open source web server) and PHP with FastCGI on a Mac for development purposes. I spent quite a bit of time figuring out how to do this on my own, so hopefully it will save someone else a little time. For […]

I don’t have much to say about today’s frivolities, but I should that I avoided being rickrolled via Twitter an epic number of times.

Adactio has the full scoop on the April Fool’s pranks that went down on the Web in 2008. My personal favorite of the day was John Resig’s “release” of Classy Query, but then, […]

The other day, I received this clandestine note.

This is a reminder that there will be a meeting called tonight for the BSG-SS (Battlestar Galactica Secret Society) at ADDRESS DELETED. It is imperative that all attend, as there is limited time in which to watch Season 3 before the premier episode of Season 4 next […]