For low bandwidth and high style.
I figured I’ve been playing around with this theme long enough that it’s time to release it to the general public. Photon was designed to be lightweight and legible. This means no images without semantic content, no tiny fonts, no dark backgrounds. (more…)
Last night I attended an event in Sacramento to honor “the extraordinary achievements of standout public high school seniors from across the state.” We were a group of seniors chosen seemingly arbitrarily from California’s public schools, invited to attend an event to receive a recognition nobody really understood. The event itself was poorly planned (no schedule for the evening was ever published, and we were forced to find our seats by searching the four tables assigned to our county for a name card), disorganized (we were kept waiting at the bottom of an escalator for half an hour while the security team swept for bombs) and excruciatingly awkward for most of the students involved. In the end, though, it was a well-intentioned event earnestly trying to spotlight the success of students across the state.
What was slightly less appreciated was the press release that was published this morning. This release contained the names of the 25 of us chosen for the “All-State Academic Team,” another recognition whose significance is still unclear. Rather problematically, the same press release also contained each student’s: (more…)
The picture speaks for itself. (more…)
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