Every year for the past ten years, I have spent at least part of the third Monday of January listening to Dr. King’s “I Have Been to the Mountaintop” speech. It’s my tradition and one I encourage you to partake in as well:
A cool project that my team at AddThis worked on to start the new year was to build an individual info graphic for a number of our publishers. To do this, we built a basic HTML page and used PhantomJS to convert them into pngs. We then used imagemagick to spice things up a bit. All in all, they turned out pretty cool and hopefully the publishers agree once they have had a chance to check them out.
Check out the info graphic for this site after the jump. It’s pretty cool to see how people shared my content over the last year.
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I’ve started using two chrome extensions lately. Both are pretty simple and are designed to make one thing easier.
The first is The Png Project which makes it so that on any Noun Project page, you can download the image as a png. I used it when I made Aaron Jorbin in 2011.
The second is by Evan Solomon and it adds a link the the SVN repository of any WordPress plugin on the plugin repository page you are on. WordPress.org Plugins SVN Link comes in handy if you’re the type that looks at the code of various WordPress plugins. Evan put the code on github and accepted a pull request of mine to remove a dependency on jQuery.
Anyone have any chrome extensions they’ve found come in handy lately?