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- Making it easier to generate single retina-pixel (hairline) images March 10, 2014
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- 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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Category Archives: Tools
Making it easier to generate single retina-pixel (hairline) images
tldr; you can create razor-thin lines for retina displays using CSS, but it takes some hackery. retinahairlinegenerator.com is a site I built for quickly selecting a color and getting the CSS code for a retina hairline. Last year Thomas Fuchs … Continue reading
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Banishing “Your Session Has Expired” from the Internet
It’s hard to use the web without coming across “Your Session Has Expired” at least a few times a year. Maybe you’re trying to book a flight, or reserve tickets for a concert. You could be trying to do some … Continue reading
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Swap your Rails stack traces for a REPL
The Developer tools I really love are those that help me reduce the time that elapses between a bug occurring and a bug being fixed. One of the more obvious types of bug is a top-level unhandled exception. The message “I’m … Continue reading
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A Better Toolchain for Everyone Building Pixel-Perfect Designs
When building outstanding consumer products, a mix of design and development is always required. Maybe you’re a designer that also codes, or maybe you’re a developer implementing a designer’s pixel mock-ups. Either way, you’re going to be working hard if … Continue reading
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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
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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
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