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Hi, I’m Phil Nelson, a writer, developer, and audio-visual maker of stuff. I have been making stuff online for over 25 years. I run RetroStrange and Set Side B. Good to see you.

Blog Archives

Month: July 2013

  • Macaw

    [The only visual HTML editor I’ve ever seen that looks legitimately useful, well-executed, and outputs good code.][link]

    Let’s see if they can deliver.

    [link]: http://macaw.co/ “Macaw | The code-savvy web design tool.”

  • Walking Distance

    I was having trouble finding a copy of this online to post to Twitter today, so because I’m the kind of person who has mp3s of this stuff, I present it to you now: Rod Serling’s excellent outro for the 5th aired episode of The Twilight Zone, Walking Distance:

    Rod Serling Outro for Walking Distance (Twilight Zone episode 5)

    Transcript:
    >Martin Sloan, age thirty-six, vice-president in charge of media. Successful in most things but not in the one effort that all men try at some time in their lives – trying to go home again. And also like all men perhaps there’ll be an occasion, maybe a summer night sometime, when he’ll look up from what he’s doing and listen to the distant music of a calliope, and hear the voices and the laughter of the people and the places of his past. And perhaps across his mind there’ll flit a little errant wish, that a man might not have to become old, never outgrow the parks and the merry-go-rounds of his youth. And he’ll smile then too because he’ll know it is just an errant wish, some wisp of memory not too important really, some laughing ghosts that cross a man’s mind, that are a part of the Twilight Zone.

    No copyright claimed, etc. I just love this bit of writing and I always have. Now that I am old and more prone to the fits of nostalgia that comes with not dying I think of it often.

  • CSS Zen Garden Relaunches

    [The old favorites are still there but the new example files are fully responsive.][link]

    [link]: http://www.csszengarden.com/ “CSS Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design”

  • How GitHub Uses “Deprivation Testing” To Hone Product Design

    [The psychology here is interesting to me.][link]

    [link]: http://www.fastcolabs.com/3010972/open-company/how-github-uses-deprivation-testing-to-hone-product-design “How GitHub Uses "Deprivation Testing" To Hone Product Design ⚙ Co.Labs ⚙ code + community”

  • Gameboy Advance Emulator for iOS

    [No jailbreak required, compiles and deploys in Xcode like any normal app.][link]

    [link]: https://github.com/rileytestut/GBA4iOS “rileytestut/GBA4iOS”

  • The Open Bundle

    [CC-licensed art and music for videos games from independent creators.][link] If they reach their funding goal they’re making all of the assets public domain.

    I absolutely love this idea. Get paid for your work and then move on to something else, leaving it for anyone who wants it.

    [link]: http://open.commonly.cc/ “The Open Bundle”

  • Plug: the brain of your devices

    Trying really hard not to turn the ‘ol site here into Phil Links Kickstarter Projects All Day but I can’t help myself [with this one][link]. Plug is a little USB dongle that plugs into your network and shares content across all of your devices, sort of like having a personal Dropbox for your house.

    [link]: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cloud-guys/plug-the-brain-of-your-devices “Plug: the brain of your devices by The CGC team — Kickstarter”