B&D is the batcave of Rolando Murillo, a visual designer and front-end developer at Catchafire. Here you may find his notes, projects and more.

Recent notes

Fear of a WebKit Planet

Since Opera announced their move to WebKit I thought it wouldn’t really contribute to a monoculture. John Siracusa backs me up with this article.

CSS Masks – How To Use Masking In CSS Now

All you need to know about CSS Masking, specially the SVG technique which involves a <foreignObject> SVG element. If you don’t know what that is like I didn’t, check this article.

Colour Mixing: The mystery of magenta

Magenta is the absence of green, and here’s why.

color.hailpixel.com

This is a color picker with what I would call silent interface, no buttons, just position and discovery. Very inspiring.

Opera is switching to WebKit

Great news, I really hope they keep Dragonfly. I understand that the fear of approaching to a monoculture on browser engines is there but I don’t think it’s much of an issue, because WebKit is great and each browser has its own implementation and its own ways to make it better.

Recent work on Dribbble