One of the most powerful features of the CSS preprocessor Sass is the mixin, an abstraction of a common pattern into a semantic and reusable chunk. Think of taking the styles for a button and, instead
Last summer software designer Aubrey Johnson published a post on Medium with a specific critique of Apple’s brand new mobile operating system, iOS7. Johnson suggested that Apple’s new “hollow” icons,
Sublime Text 2 ships with a CLI called subl (why not "sublime", go figure). This utility is hidden in the following folder (assuming you installed Sublime in /Applications like normal folk. If this fo
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Summary: Placeholder text within a form field makes it difficult for people to remember what information belongs in a field, and to check for and fix errors. It also poses additional burdens for users
Fifteen years ago today, "Doug" aired its Disney finale. HuffPost TV spoke with creator Jim Jinkins and voice of Doug, Billy West, to discuss the story behind the show that pioneered a new era of kids
Enlarge / Android's home screen over the years, from all sorts of different form factors. It's been more than two years since we originally ran Ron's epic 40,000-word history of the Android operating
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"Google likely has the most profitable customers they are going to get." Smart by @BenBajarin http://techpinions.com/android-and-the-next-billion/32014
Traditionally stylesheets describe the majority of the presentation layer for a website. However as JavaScript becomes necessary to present information in a stylistically consistent way, it becomes tr
There’s a seductive dark side to The Builder’s High . The high afforded us by our brain when we are productive is delicious. For me, it’s comparable to the endorphin rush after a good workout. A foul
1. “Only Apple” has been Tim Cook’s closing mantra for the last few Apple keynotes. Here’s what he said at the end of last week’s WWDC keynote : You’ve seen how our operating systems, devices, and ser
Getting great performance with parallax is tough. Here’s how to make it happen. 6 min read · May 13, 2014 -- Tldr; There are an easy handful of things you can do to get buttery parallax scroll. Check
The third major version of Sass brought a new data type called map . While you might be unfamiliar with this name, we already use maps often in other languages, usually under the names of associative
Last year the digital agency I work for, Bluecadet , started a website redesign project for The Franklin Institute —a renowned Philadelphia science museum undergoing the largest expansion in its histo
Dreams really do come true. That’s the mantra I kept repeating to myself as I watched this year’s WWDC Keynote. Make no mistake: this was a historic keynote. It’s hard to overstate what Apple did toda
Alfred and OS X 10.10 Yosemite Posted on Mon 2nd June, 2014 As some of you know, Apple announced its next operating system, OS X 10.10 Yosemite today. A few users have voiced concerns that Spotlight i
Craig Federighi, senior VP of software engineering, delivered most of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference keynote. | Photos by Andy Ihnatko I can’t think of a single Worldwide Developers Conference keynote that was more exciting or important than the one that Apple delivered Monday. That’s the…
While I watched Apple's WWDC 2014 opening keynote on Monday morning, I couldn't stop thinking about the infectious mixture of fun and confidence everyone onstage seemed to be exuding. It was something
Once a year, Apple kicks off its World Wide Developer Conference with a keynote presentation, such as the one coming up on Monday, which I’ll be covering for Technologizer. Many people seem to think t
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Idle Words > Talks > The Internet With A Human Face This is the text version of a talk I gave on May 20, 2014, at Beyond Tellerrand in Düsseldorf, Germany. Marc [Thiele] emailed me a few weeks ago to
Editorial , Ole Zorn’s text automation tool and Markdown editor for iOS , has changed the way I work on my iPad. Combining an elegant text editing experience with a powerful workflow system based on a
This is a story about me and a video game. Although I have always been and expect I always will be a nerd, the events of this story take place when I was approximately 8-10 years old, meaning I had not yet worn away the extra layer of turbo-nerd that little boys of that inclination tend to have at…
The Theory of Peak Advertising and The Future of the Web By Tim Hwang and Adi Kamdar :: October 9, 2013 This paper presents a brief theoretical and empirical grounding for the theory of Peak Advertisi
Recently I did a little side project to improve the website for a non-profit animal shelter in our town. The existing site was an outdated Microsoft FrontPage menagerie, so basically anything I did wo
Just a few days ago, the FCC voted in favor of a pretty uniformly terrible proposal to allow internet fast lanes. And throughout the 99-page proposition, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler makes one thing painf
Part 1. Gameday: Beer, bros and The Beastie Boys. ROSE: If you have a guiding principle of the WWE and Vince McMahon, it's the live event is where it happens. Give the fan his or her money's worth. Wh
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