My name is Dave Heaton. I write apps. Sometimes I do other things. This is mostly about the latter. Tumblr (3.0; @mnmldave)http://blog.mnmldave.com/Whole Food Lab: Love the aesthetic of this website.http://blog.mnmldave.com/post/44342857312http://blog.mnmldave.com/post/44342857312Fri, 01 Mar 2013 20:34:41 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdx0k54X0f1qz6id8o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Still reeling from the Matmos show on friday. Getting to see this enigma machine IRL big bonus. Amazing.</p>http://blog.mnmldave.com/post/36320217230http://blog.mnmldave.com/post/36320217230Thu, 22 Nov 2012 17:40:53 -0700EC2 environment switcher script: A little shell script for switching between Amazon EC2 keys.http://blog.mnmldave.com/post/30825092246http://blog.mnmldave.com/post/30825092246Mon, 03 Sep 2012 15:37:22 -0600“To me, this problem is a symptom of a larger problem that’s corroded America for at...http://blog.mnmldave.com/post/30319409927http://blog.mnmldave.com/post/30319409927Mon, 27 Aug 2012 09:50:00 -0600“Any society where a natural man — the pedestrian — becomes the intruder, and an unnatural men...http://blog.mnmldave.com/post/30242473396http://blog.mnmldave.com/post/30242473396Sun, 26 Aug 2012 08:41:00 -0600<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/jyx8iP5tfCI?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p><a href="http://exp.lore.com/post/25325363145/seven-databases-in-song-by-jimbojron-the-best" class="tumblr_blog">explore-blog</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Seven Databases in Song by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyx8iP5tfCI">jimbojron</a>, the best thing since <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/01/03/vi-hart-spirals-fibonacci-numbers/">Fibonacci numbers in song</a> and <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/01/17/mandala-daniel-starr-tambor/">the Solar System set to music</a>.</p></blockquote>http://blog.mnmldave.com/post/26216112865http://blog.mnmldave.com/post/26216112865Sat, 30 Jun 2012 10:32:11 -0600<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5y5vbFi9E1qz6id8o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>CFCF at The Grand. Sled Island.</p>http://blog.mnmldave.com/post/25550526821http://blog.mnmldave.com/post/25550526821Wed, 20 Jun 2012 21:04:22 -0600The Flaneur Society: Not to find one’s way around a city does not mean much. But to lose...http://blog.mnmldave.com/post/25482387188http://blog.mnmldave.com/post/25482387188Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:34:00 -0600<iframe src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F49193509&liking=false&sharing=false&origin=tumblr" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" class="soundcloud_audio_player" width="500" height="116"></iframe><br/><br/><p> <a href="http://jungpeople.bandcamp.com/">Jung People</a> - <em>Our Enemies Are Dead</em> </p> <p> For a reason I can’t quite pin, this track brings back memories of high school and epic post rock battles. </p>http://blog.mnmldave.com/post/25480239314http://blog.mnmldave.com/post/25480239314Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:00:00 -0600<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/44117178" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p><a href="http://kurafire.tumblr.com/post/25273588171/jay-smooth" class="tumblr_blog">kurafire</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://femfreq.tumblr.com/post/25177298994/j-smooth-calls-out-online-harassment-as-a-serious">femfreq</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>J Smooth calls out online harassment as a serious issue in “<a href="http://www.animalnewyork.com/2012/ill-doctrine-all-these-sexist-gamer-dudes-are-some-shook-ones/">All These Sexist Gamer Dudes Are Some Shook Ones</a>”. Thanks for being a great male ally in the struggle against sexism!</p> </blockquote> <p>Jay Smooth is So. Fucking. Ace.</p></blockquote>http://blog.mnmldave.com/post/25464887972http://blog.mnmldave.com/post/25464887972Tue, 19 Jun 2012 17:11:20 -0600<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5vxycq2a01qz6id8o1_r1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>I’ve been seeing a lot of sites using <a href="http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Open+Sans">Open Sans</a> for their body text lately.</p> <p>And it’s making my eyes bleed.</p> <p>The problem isn’t Open Sans—it’s a great (and free) web font—it’s that it’s too often being rendered with a way too small <code>font-size</code> and a way too light <code>font-weight</code>. </p> <p>As that <a href="https://typekit.com/fonts/open-sans">Typekit</a> screenshot tries to demonstrate, I don’t really think you can use <code>font-weight: normal</code> with any size below <code>16px</code> without losing some serious readability to the font’s narrow nature.</p> <p>However, use the book variant to widen up the characters a bit (via <code>font-weight: 300</code> with Google Web Fonts) and maybe keep that size at something higher than <code>font-size: 11px</code> (Google Web Store, I’m looking at you) then in my books, you’re swimming in delicious font gravy, baby.</p>http://blog.mnmldave.com/post/25462413892http://blog.mnmldave.com/post/25462413892Tue, 19 Jun 2012 16:34:00 -0600typography““Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you...http://blog.mnmldave.com/post/22542562929http://blog.mnmldave.com/post/22542562929Sun, 06 May 2012 15:21:58 -0600<a href="http://corner.squareup.com/2012/04/building-analytics.html">Ember and D3: Building responsive analytics</a>http://blog.mnmldave.com/post/21233874777http://blog.mnmldave.com/post/21233874777Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:00:15 -0600<a href="http://bradfrostweb.com/blog/mobile/bdconf-josh-clark-presents-the-seven-deadly-myths-of-mobile/">BDConf: Josh Clark presents The Seven Deadly Myths of Mobile | Brad Frost Web</a>http://blog.mnmldave.com/post/21211639938http://blog.mnmldave.com/post/21211639938Mon, 16 Apr 2012 08:58:26 -0600Paperfold CSS | Demo Studio | Mozilla Developer Network: Jaw, meet floor.http://blog.mnmldave.com/post/20271303235http://blog.mnmldave.com/post/20271303235Sat, 31 Mar 2012 23:05:00 -0600Recent versions of Firefox and Chrome (wisely) disallow websites from resizing the main browser...http://blog.mnmldave.com/post/14095954474http://blog.mnmldave.com/post/14095954474Sun, 11 Dec 2011 18:52:00 -0700A successful Git branching model: Have been using this branching model for a little while now on a...http://blog.mnmldave.com/post/10502904448http://blog.mnmldave.com/post/10502904448Wed, 21 Sep 2011 19:20:05 -0600