I am Joseph Rex,
voyaging the boundaries of interfaces and interactions

Joseph is a software engineer at ConvertKit, a creative technologist that loves combining art and engineering, and dad to an over-demanding australian shepherd named Glitch.

Relative and Absolute Thinkers

The way we think plays a great impact on how we live our lives and relate with people around us. This article may seem like it’s going down the path of one of the internet articles on temperament.

A grid framework from Susy Part 1

Susy is a great grid framework and something I really love about it is the idea of grid on demand rather than having to use frameworks just as Chris Coyier quoted:

Captain Blogger

Someone once told me to have a purpose for everything I do. I believe that even out of our subconscious, everything we do as humans is for a purpose. Marla Gibbs quotes that:

My failed LSB steganography algorithm

Last month (December 2014), I started developing a new GUI steganography software after building a simple steganography tool for my post at Infosec Institue. The simple tool (stegman) used a really simple approach that can be thought of and implemented by anyone in few minutes.

Riding on jekyll

It’s a new year and I’m to begin with new things. I started josephrex.me blog in 2014 and it has revived my old blogging habits. I have been on Wordpress which is nice considering how I get comments plugged into my blog posts without any third-party integration, the awesome jetpack services, the performance plugins, and most of all the easy WYSIWYG editor where I write with ease.

Specificity wars

When you look through the element styles of your browser web developer tools, you can see how CSS rules override themselves. What is prioritized is mostly based on the specificity level. It’s a usual thing that styles below override the ones above, inline styles override external styles. These are the little things but it gets deeper when we use id selectors around our stylesheets. Ids have high specificity and there are uncalled for as we don’t want unnecessary spikes in our specificity graph. This css-wizardry article tells why IDs can be the demons of our stylesheets.

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