” I delegate, work all the time, hardly sleep, totally ignore politics, sports and pop culture, neglect my family too much and probably don’t do any of my jobs as well as I could. But these are exciting days, and if ever these was a time to be overextended this is it.” – Chris Anderson, …
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
Kernest.com is Public
Wow. It’s been an amazing couple of weeks. Kernest.com is public and is getting some nice uptake. Thank you all. I had fantastic weekend in Atlanta at TypeCon2009 talking with font technologists, type designers, and other people building the web fonts marketplace. Unfortunately, Cullect is down. Down for the count. I’m planning a massive rebuild …
How to Kill a Frozen Parallels Virtual Machine
Multiple projects have me using Windows more than I’m accustomed to, so I picked up a copy of Parallels and Windows Vista and loaded them up on the MacBook Pro. My relationship with the MacBook Pro has been trying these past few weeks. Like an aged sitcom introducing a new character – this recent addition …
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Kernest.com, @font-face Service – Now in Private Preview
As I mentioned over at the Kernest blog, I sent out the first batch of emails announcing a sneak preview of Kernest – the @font-face, type-as-a-service project I’ve been working on. If you’d like to check it out and give your blog a font upgrade, drop me an email and I’ll reply with a password. …
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What’s Wrong with WordPress?
You know I’m a big fan of WordPress. For nearly 5 years, I’ve considered it the only online publishing platform worth considering. I’ve built a number of plug-ins for it over the years(WP-iPodcatter, WP-iCal, WP-GotLucky, and WP-CaTT) of which I only use WP-iCal these days. Since then, WordPress has taken off. While they still have …
RealTimeAds.com Launches at MinnPost.com
I’m pleased to announce the launch of RealTimeAds.com – a advertising product now in beta testing at MinnPost.com Karl and I have been building and testing the system for a couple of months now and I’m quite happy with it on three of fronts; It feels like it makes advertising approachable to people and organizations …
[Client] CagedTweets.com Launched
CagedTweets.com is a Twitter archiving service for businesses. Founder Andy Schroepfer and I designed, built, and launched in 6 weeks (in time to announce it at 140conf). Got a crazy project you’d like to launch this summer? Call me – 612 345 9110. Let’s make it happen.
What if Google Blocked Your Site?
“Yet, Google’s system makes no distinction between people who have malsites and people who get hacked and then fix their sites. Neither Google nor Twitter notified me at all, despite the fact that both have my email address via my respective accounts at those services, nor did they give me any fair warning to remedy …
Ban Helvetica
Attention web designers – Sure. Helvetica is a fine typeface. Just stop using it in your CSS stylesheets. Or at least stop specifying it first. Second. Or third. There are more readable, more appropriate, and more distinctive, available for your website. If you must specify it, how about putting it on the other side of …
A Good Project Eats Everything
I’m floored it’s been 3 weeks since I’ve written anything here. Feels more like 3 days. I’ve been working with a number of very cool start-ups and Kernest is the only one I’m able to talk about. Thankfully, all 3 are on track to go public this month. And I hope at least one does …