ASCII Art in Sublime
June 27, 2014 -Yesterday @SublimeTxtTips tweeted a link to a handy way to get around stylesheets. I was stunned to see it was a post I wrote last year. I actually... View Article
Yesterday @SublimeTxtTips tweeted a link to a handy way to get around stylesheets. I was stunned to see it was a post I wrote last year. I actually... View Article
Not too long ago I wrote a guest post on my brother’s leisure blog; Leisurebeam. It’s about using the Stop watch app on most smartphones... View Article
Instant Click is a JS library that optimistically preloads pages when hovering the links. This is such a brilliant way to speed up a site’s... View Article
This week I was interviewed by Responsive Web Design Is. I talked a bit about the recent BlackBerry Blogs responsive refresh. You can read it... View Article
This is too cool. Emmet Livestyle is a text editor package and browser extension that allow for two-way style edits (live updates from Sublime to... View Article
It’s not really fair to compare a closed ecosystem to an open source one, but let’s try. Android and iOS are the extreme platforms: One is... 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
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.
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
The talented Hugo Giraudel (http://hugogiraudel.com) took the responsive text from the front page of ArleyM.com and made the styles a lot more efficiently with SASS... View Article
The notorious @ppk keeps up a pretty amazing site at quirksmode.org. He does very thorough browser tests, logs them with easy to read tables, and shares them... View Article
In a sudden and shocking change of events Opera is changing its rendering engine to Webkit (the same engine that Chrome, Safari, BB OS6+ ,... View Article
Today it was announced that in November Google Apps (Gmail, Drive, Calendar, etc) will stop supporting IE8. This is astounding as IE9 is pretty solid... View Article
Graham Kennery showed me this… http://tympanus.net/Tutorials/CSS3FullscreenSlideshow/index.html These images scale to browser size – this means that images can look pretty crappy when scaled up. But... View Article
Responsive Web Above The Fold In this CSS Tricks post I share how there may actually be some value in considering what the fold is... View Article
Web Production as Chess This is one of my favourite posts I’ve written (read that as unvainly as you can please). Here are some thoughts... View Article
My mind was blown today by Lea Verou’s gallery of pure CSS backgrounds. At first I thought these were larger than using images, but I... View Article
You’re a Terrible Client! I recently had the pleasure to write for Web Designer Depot about the struggles web designers face in doing their own... View Article
HTML5 Offers ‘Scoped’ CSS for Precision Styling Scoped CSS is getting a bit more coverage since my recent CSS-Tricks post, and today was featured on... View Article
Saving the Day with Scoped CSS Last year Thrillworks bought a CSS3 / HTML5 book for the library. One of the new tasty bits of... View Article
WebKit Image Filters This is astounding. Want some image treatment, but don’t want to bust open Photoshop? No problem. This new CSS attribute will allow... View Article