I am a Web Designer and Developer
working at GitHub

My passion is building beautiful products and working with wonderful people.

Web Developer Fieldnotes

This is where I like to share various observations or discoveries made while developing the web.

Jon Rohan Oct 10, 2010

Text Rotation

What I wanted to make was a clock. The basis of this project is using the -webkit-transform:rotate(0deg); css property. This allows you to rotate any object 360 degrees. I began to wonder, if I have a line, and I setup a javascript timer can I rotate it every second?

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Jon Rohan Oct 09, 2010

Dead Simple Git Workflow

Recently I have had the privilege to work with a few excellent small agile teams. With each team, they have their own process, which works best for them. And there’s nothing wrong with that, a team should work in it’s most effective way. But I came across a team recently that had a workflow that really impressed me. It is described as an extremely cool Git workflow.

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Jon Rohan Oct 04, 2010

8-bit Kill Screen

Using paralax scrolling and canvas to create a ‘kill screen’ effect.

Jon Rohan Jun 16, 2010

Building a deck of 20 cards and shuffling them

Was playing with making some cards, without using any images or such.

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