I’m the Euphoric frickin’ Llama.

I’m no expert on typefaces. In fact, my design skills generally suck. However, after reading Sebastiaan de With’s article on Helvetica, I started to notice the font (and its bastard cousin, Arial) wherever I went. I changed Firefox’s default sans-serif font to Lucida Grande over Helvetica and suddenly, Wikipedia went and looked a whole lot better. Unfortunately, Google insists on using Arial for all its web pages (for old browser-compatibility, perhaps?), and it really started to piss me off. So much so, in fact, that I decided to change it. I’d heard of Stylish before, and decided to finally install it. So here’s my Stylish script to fix Google:

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);

@-moz-document domain("google.com"), domain("google.co.uk") {

    body {

        font-family: "Lucida Grande", sans-serif !important;

    }

}

If this isn’t a reason to use Firefox over IE/Safari, I don’t know what is. Now go, install Stylish, and fix that butt-ugly website. Oh, and if you’re a Windows user, use Lucida Sans Unicode instead.

I’ve been using Coda, Panic’s beautiful Mac web development IDE, to code up all my sites for a while now, including this blog, and while I think it’s very good, you tend to notice things in software when you use it a lot. Things you don’t particularly like, issues you feel shouldn’t be there and bugs that haven’t been fixed in far too long. There hasn’t been a patch for Coda in a while, so I’m hoping they’re working on something big, but I’m hoping even more that they include most of this list in their next update.

So, let’s go through them all. There’s some big ones and some tiny ones, but I figure I should get them all out. I’ve just been using Coda for several hours, so hopefully they’re pretty fresh in my mind.

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