I started investigating CSS frameworks almost a year ago. Back then, the two main contenders were SASS and LESS. Well, there’s really three contenders if you count SASS and SCSS separately, but between those two, SCSS “won”, and in the future, when I say SASS, I mean SCSS. Based on hearsay on the Internet, people…
Read More SASS vs LESSIn the past, whenever I’ve done HTML, I’ve been bipolar. Either do whatever had to get done just to get the page rendered right, or stick to the lofty tenets of html5 and write semantic markup. Now that I’ve bounced between those two for a while now, I’ve learned a few things: Doing everything semantically…
Read More HTML/CSS Best PracticesNotes on how major brands fit me. Banana Republic pants – most are too tight, though these fit well: classic fit: 30/30 kentfield straight-fit – 31/30, 30/30 is ok too Burberry shirts – S waist good, shoulders tight CK shirts – S good fit pants – too tight jackets – M good fit John Varvatos…
Read More Fit CheckAs much as I’m a fan of metro shelving and gorilla racks. I was curious if I could throw together some cheap wood to make shelves. This is the first design I came up with. And here’s the first version I made: It’s basically my version 0, but I didn’t include the supports in the…
Read More Cheap/Ugly/Functional shelvingI really like ice cream. But sometimes I’m too lazy to sit there and use a spoon. So when that happens I reach for an ice cream shake. Here are the ones in town I like in most favorite to least: Recommended: Big Top – pretty much perfect. EZ’s – good options. Offers malts too.…
Read More Austin Shake/Malt Roundup/RankingsSo today, being stuck in the house, I decide I should streamline some of my things in the unix world. So I picked up some BASH scripting. I got some serious flashbacks to the 90’s. I would have flashed back earlier, but I’m not old enough. It really makes you appreciate the UNIX geeks of…
Read More Weekend^H^H^Hday HackThis was first a post about one about:config entry in FireFox I wanted to remember. But now there are several, so for easy reference, I am going to just put all of them into one post. Fixing Accidental Page Zooms (FireFox + Logitech G9x) I’ve got the Logitech G9x, and I use it with the…
Read More My FireFox about:configA few days ago, I learned about a map visualization libary called Polymaps from FlowingData (Design advanced online and interactive maps with Polymaps). This weekend, I resolved to play with it and come up with something useful. The Texas Tribune has a neat Flash based map of county-by-county election turnouts. My goal for this weekend……
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