March 2010
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Sass 3 Beta Released →
davidkaneda:
If you’re a web developer and haven’t given Sass a try yet, get into it ASAP. It a Ruby gem that abstracts CSS — it empowers the CSS with functions and variables, saves a ton of development time, and even makes it easier to be more consistent with your designs. Here’s a sample of a theme I’m working on which shows off some of the functionality.
Version 3 brings a new syntax to...
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Holophonic Sound →
This is amazing. If you have some headphones, pop them on and give this demo a try. Suddenly craving a Lord of the Rings holophonic mix.
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Wikipedia Search UI
One of my biggest pet peeves (after my hangup with Amazon) is search tools with multiple action buttons. I know Google has had their “I’m Feeling Lucky” button forever, but I think they’re an exception because it’s well-known, it has a quirky label, and well, because they’re Google.
Wikipedia’s landing page has a simple search form that allows you to...
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“Quiet Dog Bite Hard” by Mos Def -...
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Homemade pizza, the manly way
I was inspired by Gus Mueller’s post last December about making pizza on a stone and have been toying with the idea of trying it out myself ever since.
Jesse Grosjean of Hog Bay Software was also inspired, but he said screw the sissy stone in the oven thing and decided to turn the obsessive dial up to 11 with a dedicated dough mixer and an actual 900 degree wood burning oven. Suddenly,...
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Show 'N Tell Friday: Custom Form Error Markers
* Tumblr readers should click through for code samples since the embedded snippets don’t render in the dashboard view.
Just a quick little tip this week. Most of my current projects are making use of Formtastic for generating forms. This tip is slightly Formtastic-specific, but could easily be adapted to any form markup.
One project in particular is extremely form-heavy, with a...
“The shift of online communities resembles urban development and the...”
– The ascendancy of Hacker News & the gentrification of geek news communities
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This week's Tumblr recommendation
I threw my vote in for thudjs this week. He has some interesting thoughts on Javascript and CSS structuring and is definitely worth a look if you’re into that sort of thing.
Fellow Tumblr-ers, don’t forget to vote - it’s a great way to spread the word about up and coming sites or for showing your support for those that are more established. If you want to vote for me in tech...
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WatchLastHistory - OS X visualization tool for analyzing your Last.fm listening history.
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“There are some people who have argued that the whole App Store phase is a fad....”
– Eric Meyer on the future of the HTML5/CSS/JS stack.
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