Hello Designer News!

Today I'm launching a very special project since it brings together two of the things I love: music and design.

A friend of mine, Leon, is releasing his 11-tracks album "Insert Disc" on June 15th so we built Leon Resort, a microsite with music visualisations for each of the 6 snippets made available. We spent a lot of time perfecting each animation to make the experience very diverse and special!

Feel free to check the microsite, pre-order the album and spread the word around!

The copy made me laugh more than it should, well done :D

And the design is pretty well thought of, simple, clean, straight to the point, no BS. I like that.

GG

Awesome idea, but as already said, the popup is really weird. You could use the Notifications API for that. Otherwise, the idea is really really neat :)

1. I used Jekyll for ~1.5year to build my blog and then my website

2. I liked it at the time, but then I grew out of it because of...Ruby. Not the language itself, I don't know any Ruby and I'm not going to say "Ruby is a bad programming lang!". No, when I say "because of Ruby" it's about installing/upgrading/extending/tweaking a Jekyll installation. Ruby is a mess to get working properly in a "vanilla" way, you're on Linux ? Your package manager will have an outdated version of Ruby, OS X comes with Ruby but it's mostly outdated too (10.10 has a 2.0.0 but I'm not sure), and don't even mention Windows. You're probably going to be in pain if you want to have Jekyll functioning under Windows. You want to add a Jekyll plugin that uses a certain gem? Cool, then you can be sure you'll be struggling to add the said gem if nothing says so in the README of the plugin (trust me, it happens very often, and it shouldn't). Oh ? The plugin is made for Ruby 2.0.0 and you're using Ruby 2.1.1 ? Well, guess it's not even gonna run, yay for reinstalling a new version of Ruby!

That's why I grew out of Jekyll after a while because I was tired of installing Ruby, obscure gemError that no one knew why it happens and that get solved with obscure tricks. After that I eventually used DocPad (Node.js) afterwards, it was nice, and they're chances I'll be using it to redesign my website. And now my personal blog runs on a self-hosted Ghost because I'm lazy when it comes to writing :p

tl;dr : Jekyll is great, but you don't want to be the guy installing/maintaining Ruby to make it work so you'll probably want to use it on GitHub pages.

Man, Übersicht look super interesting, like GeekTool that I would actually wanna use and make widgets for, thanks for the tip!

Some questions because I'm curious:

• How do you do the HUD in the top left corner ? GeekTool ?
• Where didyou get your icons for Reeder and stacks ? They look slick

Soda and Tomorrow Night

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I've been using Sip for past two weeks, it's amazing!

It's built w/ Jekyll and Sass, nothing too fancy but I like it the way it is http://erambert.me/en

Looks like Pikachu is taken too