Introducing the Front End Review Series
July 10, 2013 -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
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Writing about front end development
July 9, 2013 -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
WordPress TV
July 8, 2013 -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/
DRY CSS
July 8, 2013 -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.
Breaking the rules
July 7, 2013 -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
An open letter to Adobe Typekit
June 29, 2013 -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.
Where art thou front end?
June 25, 2013 -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
WordPress Tip: Admin Color Scheme
June 24, 2013 -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
The greatest collection of front end links ever assembled?
June 24, 2013 -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
Ultra Niche: the future of front end
June 23, 2013 -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
A post for first time SASS users
June 21, 2013 -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
Sublime Text + SASS + Ascii Art For the Win
June 13, 2013 -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
IE10 vs. Media Queries
June 10, 2013 -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
Finding those pesky Vine URLs after posting
June 4, 2013 -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
Backing up your memories
June 2, 2013 -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
Etcher
May 16, 2013 -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
Taming Retina CSS – Part 2
May 10, 2013 -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
Quadruple Negative!
May 6, 2013 -This is a true story about something an actual person said unironically! Bad grammar and misused English syntax bug me as much as the next... View Article
Faux WP-Admin: A non-WordPress Honeypot!
May 4, 2013 -These are interesting times for WordPress. Being the most widely used CMS on the planet has one major drawback: you’re the biggest target. In the... View Article
Blink
April 3, 2013 -Today Google and Opera announced they would be using a forked version of WebKit called Blink. My initial reaction is some annoyance spawned from laziness... View Article
Jury Duty
March 15, 2013 -Recently I had to go to Jury Duty selection. My request to be excused on the basis of work was denied, and so I was... View Article
Farewell Google Reader
March 14, 2013 -Just over a year ago I wrote a blog post called Web App Trust Issues. It was a paranoid, yet relatable post about me leaving... View Article