The Word "Hacker" Why have I never seen this before? Hacking predates computers. When he was working on the Manhattan Project, Richard Feynman used to amuse himself by breaking into safes containing secret documents. This tradition continues today. When we were in grad school, a hacker friend of mine who spent too much time around […]
Feature Detection: State of the Art Browser Scripting "You cannot trust host objects. They haven't earned it." (tagged: javascript todo browser webdev ) The hacktastic zoom fix at Stubbornella (tagged: css floats grids hack ) Election Results on the iPad at NYTimes.com (tagged: article html5 design iPad todo )
Homebrew "MacPorts driving you to drink? Try Homebrew!" or "The missing package manager for OS X." (tagged: homebrew git Apple Mac OSX terminal ) Tower Alleging to be "[the] most powerful Git client for Mac". So if the CLI isn't enough for you, I guess you could try this GUI. (tagged: git todo ) CSS […]
TSA Success Story blog at izs.me—glad to see that someone is having some success resisting (tagged: TSA politics ) Browser CSS hacks by Paul Irish—a comprehensive list of browser-specific CSS hacks: I don't use CSS hacks anymore. Instead I use IE's conditional comments to apply classes to the body tag. ¶ Nonetheless, I wanted to […]
CSS Positioning 101 by Noah Starks, at A List Apart (tagged: CSS position webdev ) EPIC v. DHS (Suspension of Body Scanner Program) at EPIC: Searches are reasonable if they escalate in invasiveness only after a lower level of screening discloses a reason to conduct a more probing search. EPIC argued that the TSA’s body […]
Stoyan Stefanov’s “WPO (Web Performance Optimization)†presentation from PubCon 2010
Getting Published is Not a Crap Shoot Victoria Strauss: If you’ve written a marketable book, if you done your research, if you’re smart and persistent, you have a very reasonable chance of finding publication. Maybe. (tagged: writing publishing ) Olbermann Suspension is Lunacy Matt Taibbi (at Rolling Stone): Again, that would be true even if […]
In Search of JavaScript Developers: A Gist Rebecca Murphey: I’m looking for JavaScript developers. If you don’t see the value in knowing more than just jQuery, and if you can’t find your way through relatively trivial non-jQuery code, you need not apply. (tagged: javascript ) Land Ho, Fast JavaScript! at Mystery Bail Theater—JägerMonkey (tagged: JägerMonkey […]
My experience of dConstruct 2010 at abitgone+ (via DF) (tagged: essay design dev todo ) JavaScript Query Engines at DHTML Kitchen—if you can get past the implied "frameworks/libraries are always bad and you're an idiot for using them" attitude, there is some interesting discussion in there about JavaScript-based DOM querying engines. (tagged: css javascript css3 […]
When I wrote 10 things I love about Sass, I included mixins on that list; and though I mentioned that they can be written to take arguments, I did not fully explore that. Combined with Sass’ functions and directives, parameterized mixins can really cut down on the repetitive CSS you need to write–especially when it […]