Monthly Archives: January 2014

Style Tiles

I love resources that make my life easier. To that end, I found out about Style Tiles right around the time I needed it: a website I was working on at the time no longer required the large, fully-laid-out Photoshop comp file of the past. A more unified, template-based system was being put in place […]

Click Tip: Avoid Disabled Functionality

I’m not an advocate of stealing and reposting others’ work online uncredited or modified. That happens way too much, no matter where or when, and needs to cease, being an egregious and otherwise lazy offense to creators of all kinds. I’m also not an advocate of ever disabling or impeding basic functionality of internet browsers […]

Awesome Games Done Quick 2014: Fighting Cancer with Games!

Awesome Games Done Quick

For some reason, I only JUST found out about this event — a week-long, 24-hour livestream of video game speedruns done to raise funds for cancer research through the Prevent Cancer Foundation. A great thing for a great cause: as of this posting, they’ve raised $363,000 of their $500,000 goal! I’ve been watching on-and-off since Tuesday and I’ve gotta say, as someone who knows one too many people touched by cancer, and as a gamer, that I’m very happy this event exists to help people.

EDIT: They ultimately raised over one million dollars! $1,023,218.02 as of 1/14 10 AM CST. That’s amazing.