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Re-visiting the secret power of block fomatting context 1 Aug 2013 | 11:55 am
Recently I did a quick talk at Sydney Web Apps meetup about block formatting context, focusing on how it changes the way it interacts with floated elements. I first learnt about this “secret weapon” v...
Easy-peasy Rem Conversion with Sass 1 Jul 2013 | 09:19 pm
I love rem. I’ve been using it since I first read about it in Jonathan Snook’s article, and even more so since I started building responsive websites. So what is rem? Rem is a value that is relative...
Creating Living Style Guides to Improve Performance 6 Jun 2013 | 05:02 am
I recently spoke at JSConf about my experience working with Trulia to create a living style guide. The goal for the project was to improve performance, team velocity, and also to have a more consisten...
Why I run my business like an open source project 27 Feb 2013 | 06:20 am
When I first started consulting, I used to squirrel away in my corner and code. Some weeks later, I'd deliver my perfect shining gem to the client after, quite frankly, trying to talk to them as littl...
CSSConf – The selection process 6 Feb 2013 | 12:38 pm
CSSConf - This is your conference. Last week we invited the CSS community to submit talks for the upcoming CSSConf (May 28th, Amelia Island, FL).The CSS community has an excellent history of curated c...
Don’t Feed the Trolls! 1 Jun 2012 | 02:57 pm
I gave my first-ever keynote this week at Fluent Conference. It was fun and terrifying, in particular because I spoke about a non-technical topic, trolling in the web community. Here is the video: UP...
Cross-Browser Debugging CSS 3 May 2012 | 06:16 pm
I was helping Laura (a developer who works with me) learn about cross-browser debugging this week, which got me excited to share my process. The first principal is simply: Work with CSS, not against...
Code formatting for CSS Gradients 15 Mar 2012 | 09:53 am
I may have found a way to format CSS3 Gradients that doesn’t make my eyes bleed. Yippee! I was talking to @glan the other day about CSS3 gradients. We were discussing how to break them down into unde...
Scope donuts 9 Oct 2011 | 08:50 am
Note: This article is esoteric-could-be-should-be wishing for future browsers. If you only like to hear about what you can use right now, you won’t like this. You’ve been warned. At first, when the H...
Don’t Style Headings Using HTML5 Sections 6 Sep 2011 | 09:43 pm
Styling headings is either a deceptively complex problem, or maybe the design of CSS made it appear complex when it need not have done. When styling headings (or really anything) we want three big go...
