DRY CSS
July 23, 2013 -I’ve heard of the DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) coding methodology a bit over the years, but this practical explanation really blew my mind. It often... View Article
I’ve heard of the DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) coding methodology a bit over the years, but this practical explanation really blew my mind. It often... View Article
This isn’t allowed to be your first impression of me as a professional crafter of websites. I really feel like I need to preface this... View Article
Chrome Blink went to the masses today, and unexpectedly I found my first buggy thing about the new JS rendering engine! I really didn’t think... View Article
I’m probably not the only one who learned the hard way that CSS (or JS) class names can’t start with a number. It’s just one... View Article
Today when asked a simple question my two year old replied “I amn’t”. We laughed, but didn’t correct her, after all: she’s actually made a... View Article
I hope I always have a healthy appetite for learning. Over the years I’ve learned a lot from collaboration, reading, and dissecting the code of... View Article
As you may know (stalwart reader of ArleyM.com) I like writing and musing about this career of mine. One thing that’s been really way too... View Article
My talk at WordCamp TO (Breaking the Mould) is now online here: http://wordpress.tv/2013/07/08/arley-mcblain-breaking-the-mould-with-scoped-css/
Don’t Repeat Yourself: http://csswizardry.com/2013/07/writing-dryer-vanilla-css/ This is a great post about writing more maintainable CSS. Great examples show that sometimes being DRY can mean more code.
I recently had the pleasure of collaborating on a bit of responsive front end / WordPress work with a colleague at Thrillworks. This highly experienced... View Article
Greetings and salutations good folks at Adobe Typekit! Have I told you lately how great you all are? That thing you're collectively doing with your hair is really working for you! Yes, you're always so perceptive; I am trying to butter you up. You see, I have a favour to ask. Can you add the Poppl Laudatio family to your font library please?! I'm not asking for something for nothing. I have some ideas.
Front end developers are an interesting bunch. I find they generally come from two places: Designers who have learned to code their creations, or Computer... View Article
Have you ever made a bad change in WordPress? It can be very easy if you’re working in multiple WordPress projects, or are dealing with... View Article
Over the weekend I found the mother lode of front end bookmarks. It’s so vast that it’s daunting! Oh mamma. https://github.com/dypsilon/frontend-dev-bookmarks
At the end of 2011 I thought I went niche. For many years leading up to that moment I’d worked as a designer / developer.... View Article
I recently got sharing my limited experience using SASS with a friend who’s just getting into it. I thought I’d share these ramblings here to... View Article
I wanted to share one of the coolest tricks I’ve started using in my SASS to help me get around my stylesheets a bit quicker.... View Article
I just had my first run-in with IE10. Consider this media query: @media (max-width:767) {} Chrome creates a break point at 767px. IE creates a... View Article
Need to get your Vine Feed, or the URL to the Vine loop after you posted? Good luck! Posting to Twitter at the time of... View Article
I wrote this for my family. They’re not all luddites, but I also think they need a push sometimes. I hope this helps someone else... View Article
Yesterday my son was born. We named him Etcher. We’ve had a lot of questions about the name, so I thought I’d share a bit... View Article
I shared a few weeks ago how I used a specific height for testing retina CSS, and now on the Thrillworks Blog I’ve shared the... View Article