Recently I've been playing around with GraphQL and Apollo. I haven't transitioned all our Gulp scripts to Webpack however (not sure we need to), so it took me a little trial and error to be able to load a GraphQL query stored in an include file using Gulp. Now that it's working, it really helps simplify development, through separation of the logic from the data management.

I just finished the new site for Bergevall Frames. Based in Stockholm since 1968, Bergevalls is a family-run business that has built high-quality frames for the Swedish Museum of Modern Art, The National Museum, Acne Studio and Filippa K, among many others. I'm proud to have been able to help them use Drupal to bring their prestigious brand and aesthetic to the interwebs.

Here are some OSX commands I need to use from time to time when the top menus or dock disappear. It's often triggered by taking an app full-screen and then back again, or by connecting an external display.

The Menubar crashed/refuses to be clickable:

killall -KILL SystemUIServer

The Finder crashed:

killall -KILL Finder

(you can also restart the Finder by option (=alt) + rightclicking the Finder icon in the Dock and selecting Relaunch. It doesn't always work though.)

The Dock crashed:

I needed a static website generator that supported all the tools I use – Gulp, Bootstrap/SASS and Assemble, to name a few. There are so many that seem to be designed to be infinitely flexible, but more importantly, I needed something that would just work without requiring hours of reading documentation for tools that would ultimately go unmaintained.

This one has been bugging me for a while… Spotify on my Mac stops playing as soon as the screen goes dark (due to power saving mode). Seems to happen regardless of audio settings or Spotify settings.

Apparently it's due to a hidden "App Nap" setting which can be easily fixed via the Terminal:

defaults write com.spotify.client NSAppSleepDisabled -bool YES

IMHO should really be exposed in Spotify's preferences.

I like using Grab for Mac to quickly capture a bunch of screenshots when I'm documenting the user journey through a web project I'm working on.
Here's a short workflow I made to convert a folder full of screenshots (named "Untitled 1..23.tiff" etc) into neatly-named JPEGs, ready for insertion in a markdown doc.

Välkomna på vernissage den 6 december kl 18-20.30!
Designkollektivet Surface to Air lanserar konstboken FLIP THE SCRIPT, en samling omtolkade klassiska filmaffischer av Shary Boyle, José Parlá och Lansing Dreiden m.fl. I samband med releasen presenteras de unika verken i galleriet på Urban Outfitters. Boken kommer också att finnas till försäljning under kvällen.

Facebook announced some new features at their f8 Developer Conference yesterday.

I ♥ this.