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- Fluent 2014: Supercharge Your Mobile Emails March 13, 2014
- Making it easier to generate single retina-pixel (hairline) images March 10, 2014
- Combining CSS regions with transforms and animations September 23, 2013
- CSS Regions, and why you’ll be using them before you know it September 9, 2013
- City maintenance as an analogy for software development August 27, 2013
- Banishing “Your Session Has Expired” from the Internet August 12, 2013
- On Rescue.js July 29, 2013
- Swap your Rails stack traces for a REPL July 15, 2013
- Highly usable (but slightly crazy) CSS3 effects round-up July 1, 2013
- A Better Toolchain for Everyone Building Pixel-Perfect Designs June 17, 2013
- Blur This! (or Demonstrating MobileSafari’s Awesome Support for CSS3 Filter Effects) June 3, 2013
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Author Archives: Lee Mallabone
Blur This! (or Demonstrating MobileSafari’s Awesome Support for CSS3 Filter Effects)
The (iOS native) Yahoo! weather app displays a nice flickr photo of each weather location, and a minimalist information architecture: the most important data you need is immediately visible while it’s just a single tap to drill down into more … Continue reading
Posted in CSS, HOW-TOs
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Using CSS3 Transitions to Animate the (Yahoo Weather App’s) Rising Sun
The Yahoo! Weather app for iOS is a triumph of form meeting function. One of its fun visual tricks is how the sunrise and sunset times are presented: Although the Yahoo! app is a native iOS app, MobileSafari’s CSS3 support … Continue reading
Posted in CSS
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A quick Sublime hack for faster Sass/CSS editor productivity
tl;dr: I made a Sublime plugin to show the corresponding CSS selector in the status bar when your cursor is next to a closing brace. Here’s why. Staying in flow is one of the hardest and most important things you … Continue reading
Get productive: hacking Sublime Text 2 for faster rails/project navigation
Programmer productivity stems from the ability to easily and efficiently navigate, create and edit the code you need to work with. To this end, it’s incredibly important to pay attention to the efficiency of your own daily workflow. If you’re … Continue reading
Posted in Rails, Tools
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Using the Chrome Inspector to edit your site’s Dark Matter
And by Dark Matter I mean “content that only gets styled by pseudo-selectors”. 🙂 When you’re rebuilding, re-designing or even tweaking a website, it’s often quite painful to restyle the items on a page that are hidden by default. Navigation … Continue reading
How to make Chrome understand the Sass/SCSS in your rails app
When you open the Chrome web inspector, you can browse to the styles that are being applied to your elements. It’s great. Unfortunately, if you’re using a framework like LESS or Sass, then by default Chrome will reference the CSS … Continue reading
Posted in Chrome, CSS, Rails, Tools
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Next stop San Francisco
In just a few days I’m moving to San Francisco! I’m insanely excited, both about moving to the city and that next month I’ll officially become an employee of Rapportive, Inc. If you’ve never heard of Rapportive, you should check … Continue reading
Posted in General
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Fixing a Sequel Pro compilation error
I tried to download and build the source code for Sequel Pro today and ran into a hitch. After following the instructions for grabbing the source code and trying to compile it, X-Code refused to succesfully build the app, instead … Continue reading
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Using facebook connect (only) to authorize users with authlogic
I’ve been working on our semi-stealthy new webapp for the last couple of months and I’ve been putting off fixing a bug for ages because it was so damned weird. We want users to be able to sign-up with facebook … Continue reading
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Why Spotify Premium is too expensive, and how to fix it
I recently became a Spotify Premium customer, for two main reasons: I’d spent an afternoon listening to spotify at my desk and wanted to carry on listening to the same playlists on my iPhone while I was walking somewhere. As … Continue reading
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