You’re moving in with a different roommate. (College roommate? Are you in college? This looks like your old college campus.) The room is in disarray, but that’s to be expected as he makes room for you. You’re moving in not because the campus housing authorities have told you to, but because… the two of you […]
Happy fifth birthday to you, Holden. I can’t imagine the world without you, nor would I want to.
The Large Hadron Collider in pictures: using big technology to investigate tiny things At The Verge — a great collection of LHC images. For some reason, I get a kick out of the "MAGNET STATUS" sticker every time I look at it. (tagged:
Last night was the third BurlingtonJS meet-up, and it seems to have been another success. Attendance was good and the crowd was once again pretty engaged. Always fun, always a room full of smart people, always good discussion. This month, I had the privilege of presenting, and took a few pages from chapters Michael Fogus’s […]
Pre-generating Justified Views Ross Harmes on how the Flickr team achieved a 7× speed increase in page render times: The first time you come to any Flickr page, we store the width of your browser window in a cookie. We can then read that cookie on the server on subsequent page loads. Gotta love a […]
Simpler UI Testing with CasperJS Fairly thorough intro to functional testing with CasperJS, posted on the New Relic blog. (And/but: why someone would use XPath over CSS selectors is puzzling to me…) (tagged: testing CasperJS JavaScript ) modern.IE Testing made easier in Internet Explorer Such a great resource. (tagged: virtual machines Internet Explorer ) How […]
WebStorm and Compass drama of an octopus Andale Mono fat “Search Term Haiku” is a series wherein I examine this site’s log files and construct one or more haiku poems from search terms and phrases that led visitors to the site. Where possible, I attempt to keep the search phrases intact. However, as these are […]
Sass Style Guide By Chris Coyier, writing at CSS-Tricks. I largely agree with this list, but I'm not sure I get the assertion that you should put @includes after "regular" styles. If you're ordering the CSS properties according to some specific scheme (e.g., Zen Ordering) then wouldn't you want the output of your mixins to […]
Designing CSS Layouts With Flexbox Is As Easy As Pie David Storey, on the Smashing Coding blog, and taken from Redesign The Web (The Smashing Book #3). (tagged: CSS flexbox ) Vermont Food System Atlas (tagged: food Vermont ) gitignore.io Interesting. Terribly interesting… (tagged: gitignore.io git ) CSS content and attr Awesome tip and somewhat […]
A better, brighter Flickr Flickr Redesign Round-up! The official announcement over at the Flickr Blog. I know that there are a lot of people hating on the new redesign, but I think I "get" the vision behind it. I think they're making a calculated gamble with such a dramatic re-thinking of their interface (to say […]