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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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Blur This! (or Demonstrating MobileSafari’s Awesome Support for CSS3 Filter...
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...
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Highly usable (but slightly crazy) CSS3 effects round-up
Over the last few weeks I’ve shared links to several small libraries, all of which have a coincidental theme running through them: they’re all simple ways to enhance usability by taking advantage of...
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CSS Regions, and why you’ll be using them before you know it
CSS Regions is a W3C working draft that allows you to flow text between different areas of a page. The simplest use-case might be column layouts, where each column is an explicit region, but the...
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Combining CSS regions with transforms and animations
In my previous post about CSS regions, I showed off some of the basic capabilities that regions provide, described which browsers you can expect to try them out in, and what the future potentially...
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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...
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Fluent 2014: Supercharge Your Mobile Emails
Today I gave a talk at Fluent 2014 entitled Supercharge Your Mobile Emails, in which I talked about how to add animation, dynamic content and interactivity to your email templates to improve the mobile...
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