I'm Elliot Jackson; I build software for fun and profit. Currently I freelance, taking on mainly iOS design and/or development projects. Prior to that I worked at Realmac Software.
During my time in the industry, I've been fortunate enough to work at different levels of the stack on a wide range of projects. Whilst the bulk of my client work is iOS-centric these days, its not the only type of work I enjoy doing and that's one of the purposes of this site: to allow me to share the bits and pieces I work on outside of the studio.
Archive
- The UX of vague user input and educated guesses
- The scripts I use for blogging with Vim and Hugo
- Upgrading my Hackintosh from El Capitan to High Sierra
- How to group posts by date Daring Fireball style in Hugo
- Introducing Snooker: Lightweight spam detection for blog comments
- How to show the full post unless there’s a user defined summary in Hugo
- Google Drive and Hugo: The new publishing setup for this blog
- How to find an available TCP port in Rust
- Receiving 3rd party webhooks on a locally hosted web app
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Handling optional trailing commas in
macro_rules! - Introducing iron-middlefiddle: Route specific middleware made easy in Iron
- DeltaE 0.2.0
- Setting Iron’s response MIME type with middleware
- Now in beta: DeltaE – a library for quantifying the difference between two colors
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A workaround for
box-shadownot passing through to the inside of aborder - How to seed a Postgres database with Knex
- How to set up environment varying code in your Rust web app
- MVC mappings for CtrlP
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Saving users a click with
autofocus - Hashing sensitive data in Rust with argon2rs
- Deleting the contents of a directory in Rust
- Matching, saving and replacing text with the regex crate
- How CSS selector specificity is calculated
- The building blocks of a healthy community
- “Screencast #2: A tour of my .vimrc”
- “Write a Fahrenheit to Celsius converter in Rust” solution
- Moving lines of code around in Vim
- My Hackintosh 6 months in: specs, thoughts and useful links
- Tracking commits to a GitHub repo with RSS
- Dynamic input values, .value and .getAttribute(‘value’)
- Improving webfont performance with FontFaceObserver and sessionStorage
- Screencast #1: How I manage my dotfiles with GitHub
- Configuration for a cleaner command history in ZSH
- Conditionals and regular expressions in Javascript
- jQuery to pure JS: Target each direct child of an element
- How to stop Javascript from running until an iFrame’s DOM is ready
- Jekyll: Create a list of all posts in the same category
- Jekyll: Display the full post unless a custom excerpt is specified
- Guard clauses in Javascript
- Now serving over HTTPS and HTTP2
- Setup CtrlP to use ripgrep in Vim
- Sorting lines in Vim
- jQuery to pure JS: Event listeners on dynamically created elements
- Search through a full text index of your browsing history with Falcon
- Using ripgrep and fzf instead of The Silver Searcher and CtrlP in Vim
- Deploy Middleman 4 to GitHub Pages
- How to switch from rvm to rbenv
- Better find and replace in Vim
- Readership branding WIP
- Greener Grass
- Specify: Quickly generate a shape with specific dimensions in Sketch
- Faster layer renaming in Photoshop
- My iOS to Mac screenshot workflow
- Save for Web in Photoshop CC 2015
- Quick Export in Photoshop CC 2015
- A post WWDC link roundup
- Advice for developers getting into design
- Collapse folders and styles after running Bjango Actions
- On hearing and accessibility
- Remove the default gradient background in ZBrush 4R7
- Let’s breakdown the ‘Save in Ember’ browser extension
- How to copy an RGB value in Photoshop
- The end of an era for Land Rover
- How to Create High Resolution ICNS Files
- A Guide to Optimising Photoshop Performance
- 300,000×300,000 pixel Photoshop files
- How to Export SVGs from Photoshop
- Designing Apps for the Visually Impaired
- Working with Type in Photoshop
- A Guide to Pixel Hinting
Open Source Work
- iron_middlefiddle: A macro which makes route specific middleware much easier to accomplish in the Iron web framework.
- DeltaE: A pure-Rust implementation of the CIEDE2000 algorithm, which serves to quantify the difference between two colours.
- Specify: A Sketch plugin for quickly generating a rectangle or oval with specific dimensions and positioning.
- Save in Ember: A Chrome extensions which adds a “Save in Ember” button next to Dribbble shots.
- Basket.css: A no-clutter starting point for a small websites.
Closed Source Work
The ✦ symbol is used to denote projects which I worked on as part of a team.
- Ditto: A plugin which adds variables to Photoshop.
- ✦ draft.im: A place for designers looking for a Dribbble invite to submit their work. (July 2012 – October 2013)
- Interface Tools: A custom Photoshop panel which houses the tools most frequently needed by interface designers.
Commercial Work
The ✦ symbol is used to denote projects which I worked on as part of a team.
- ✦ Typed.com: A blogging platform that does away with all of the complexity, leaving just the writing. (March 2015 – July 2016, left Realmac Software)
- ✦ Typed: A minimal writing app and markdown editor for the Mac. (December 2014 – November 2015, acquired)
- ✦ Clear: A to-do and reminders app used by over 2.5 million people. (May 2013 – July 2016, left Realmac Software)
- ✦ Ember: Allows you to easily capture and store images (and videos) that inspire you. (May 2013 – July 2016, left Realmac Software)
- ✦ RapidWeaver: An all-in-one web design app you can use without writing a line of code. (May 2013 – July 2016, left Realmac Software)