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This weekend, Nike will officially launch the Air Max 90 in its original form, and the iconic “Infrared” will certainly reprise its role. There’s no denying that this awesome running silhouette, designed by none other than Tinker Hatfield, is responsible for enhancing the retro phase for Nike, and with popularity that knows no bounds, it can be argued that the Air Max 90 is the most popular Nike running sneaker of all-time.

To celebrate 25 years of Air Max 90, we looked back at the timeline of this sneaker to hand-select the best to have ever released, and during our retrospective, we noticed that every phase of this silhouette has been outstanding; the original colorways were a hit, the collaborations in the 2000s were legendary, and the enhanced versions in recent years were impressive. Read on below.

You may have read about my Gianvito Rossi obsession not too long ago. It may have been obvious to you that I have a soft spot for Rossi’s sophisticated designs, but it took me a while to come to that conclusion. I didn’t want to have to pick favorites, because I really do love an assortment of shoes, but I think it’s clear who the winner is in my mind.

When you write about and analyze shoes as much as I do, you begin to hone in very quickly on what you like and what you don’t like. I like both towering high heels and flats, but I don’t like kitten heels. I love prints and neons, but I’ll pass on metallics–you get the idea. Whenever I’ve written about his shoes in the past, I couldn’t get enough of them, and somehow, someway, Gianvito Rossi made the cut. While I still love a fierce pair of Louboutins, Manolos or Jimmy Choos, there’s something about Rossi’s aesthetic that just clicks with me.

As if my obsession weren’t big enough, I also found three more pairs to add to my list!

I know it can be a very hard decision, but let’s hear it: who’s your favorite footwear designer?

Before anything else, I was saddened yesterday to learn of the passing of Jobst Brandt:

Back in the late 20th century, while still deeply in thrall to Fred-dom, I used to read the «rec.bicycles.tech» group, where Brandt used to tell everybody what was what. Like any Fred I was highly susceptible to the newest and latest gew-gaws, to the extent that I emptied my savings account to purchase the very first iteration of the Ksyrium. (It was an illness, I realize that now.) Even so, Brandt’s authoritative and at times irascible posts resonated with me, and I began to realize and embrace the fact that I had retrogrouch tendencies.

The Kysriums didn’t last long. One day I was Just Riding Along in Manhattan when a hormone-addled teen ran out into the street and kicked my rear wheel for no apparent reason. I didn’t break stride, but the wheel went wildly out of true, and it was never the same after that–nor was my faith in bicycle marketing.

What can I use to keep my oily skin matte and give my skin a bit of coverage?
It’s one thing to seek out a product that addresses shine, it’s another to enlist a product that can keep skin matte and give you some coverage for a fresh face. Keep shine at bay with a pore-smoothing tinted mattifier, like La Roche-Posay Effaclar BB Blur ($30, at drugstores). The formula helps diminish unwanted shine and the appearance of pores with the help of your new favourite ingredient, airlicium, which absorbs three times its weight in oil instantly. The formula also contains perlite, which is an anti-humidity ingredient that keeps skin matte.

What’s a quick way to give my eyes definition?
You have an array of options, from pencils to shadows to cream and gel pots; determining ease of application of all these options isn’t exactly straightforward or simple. Allow us to direct you to a particularly foolproof product: Rodial Eye Sculpt ($34, at Murale). The formula occupies a space somewhere between gel and cream shadow, and the taupe-brown-plum shade can be swooshed across lids with a fluffy eyeshadow brush for a speedy, effortless defined eye. Add more to the lash line and outer corner to elevate the look for evening, resulting in the chicest smokey eye (lazy girls and makeup novices everywhere, rejoice!). Bonus: You can define your brows with this unique cream by running it through brow hairs on an angled brush.

Is there a way to make my mascara less clumpy when I add more to my lashes before heading out for the night?
Topping up your mascara is one of a handful of ways to add to your makeup when transitioning from day to night, but finding yourself with thick, spider-y lashes is never the goal. Try running Urban Decay Mascara Resurrection ($19, sephora.ca) through your lashes with your existing mascara in tact. The lightweight, oil-free serum formula is designed to soften your previously applied mascara coats to prep them for fresh coats, drastically reducing your chances of clumpiness. The lightweight formula contains copper powder and vitamin B5 to condition lashes and bind moisture to them for improved strength.

Few things in this world strike terror into the hearts of men (and women) quite like performing in front of a live audience. Thankfully, our computers and websites have no such qualms, and now they have the capacity to deliver live data like never before.

Live data — or real-time data — certainly isn’t new to the Web; but it’s increasingly pervasive, and with good reason. Today’s Internet users expect immediate gratification. They don’t just want a site to respond to their input; they expect sites to provide information without a click.

Social media is a big driver for these expectations. Users are accustomed to constantly updated content through their social feeds, so they presume this kind of performance from all sites. Today, failure to deliver up-to-date information can create a dissatisfying user experience.

The good news is that technology is making it easier for you to deliver real-time data to your site’s users.

HOW DID WE GET HERE?

The biggest challenge for real-time data was the need for a constantly open client-server connection as opposed to request and response.

For years, the most popular commercial applications for live data were in the financial industry. Finance companies invested heavily in these technologies and closely guarded them as trade secrets. Eventually, independent developers caught up, creating Java applets to make real-time data more accessible for other applications, and later created native web-browser hacks to deliver consistent HTTP connections.

Today, improved servers, browsers, software and other tech advances make it easier to develop for and deliver real-time data. Libraries and services, like Firebase, Signalr, Parse, Meteor, and Socket.io enable us to build and deploy real-time mobile and web apps in minutes. Nearly every developer now has access to the tools necessary to incorporate live data into their projects.