Use Alfred.app to Create a New Jekyll Post →
So simple, so useful. Aaron created a simple shell script—executed with Alfred—that takes a ‘template’ Jekyll post, dates and names it, then moves it to a drafts folder.I modified it slightly to work...
View ArticleHTML Entities or Decimals
I had issues with the RSS feed for this site. The feed validator was telling me that using a HTML entity like ‘ was invalid. I don’t know much about XML, but it seemed strange; I had escaped...
View ArticleSearchLink: Automated Markdown Linking →
Brett Terpstra seems to spend countless hours writing scripts that make menial and repetitive tasks quick and painless; SearchLink does just that. Brett:SearchLink is a System Service for OS X that...
View ArticleHypercritical
Almost 100 episodes in and Hypercritical is ending. For me, this is sad news. Every Saturday morning I got a nerd fix—like Saturday morning cartoons for an adult.Podcasts afford you the luxury of...
View ArticleOliver Miles Alway Taylor: The First Week
This is a collection of Day One posts that chronicle the first week of my sons life. I was concerned that they would be lost if they remained locked in a proprietary app. So I compiled them...
View ArticleGetting Back Into RSS
Lots of people use Twitter instead of RSS these days. I’ve been in that camp for at least three years, but I’ve recently got back into to RSS.I used to subscribe to lots of high volume, multi-author...
View ArticleStables and Volatiles →
This piece by Michael Lopp is primarily about engineering, but it speaks to the entire process of making ‘things’ in teams. ‘Stables’ are process driven; they want to make safe things, the right way....
View ArticlePull Quotes
Pull quotes are common in magazines, but you don’t often seem them on the web. According to Wikipedia, a pull quote is a ‘quotation or excerpt from an article that is typically placed in a larger or...
View ArticleWriting in Version Control
Git and I have only recently become friends; I had no idea what I was missing. If you’re new to Git, it’s a free and open source Distributed Version Control System (DVCS). When a file—or project—is...
View ArticleOpen Source Design
While looking at Google Analytics for this site, I started noticing some unknown page titles. It was immediately obvious that a few people had taken the source from GitHub and started using it with...
View ArticleDraft. Version control for writing →
Not too long ago I wrote a post about writing in version control. I essentially argued that keeping plain text or Markdown files in version control—using GitHub for collaboration—was a far better...
View ArticleSublime Text 2 Replacement Icon →
After being convinced to give Sublime Text 2 a try, I’m digging it. However, I didn’t like the icon at all. So I made a replacement.Download it on GitHub. There’s and .icns for Mac and .ico for...
View ArticlePen Type-A
I’ve wanted a Pen Type-A since I first heard about CW&T’s Kickstarter campaign to manufacture them a couple of years ago. As I missed out on the original run, I’ve been patiently waiting for...
View ArticleLeaving Feedburner
I was a little surprised that Google didn’t decide to shut down Feedburner along with Google Reader. However, it seems like it’s only a matter of time. So I’ve deleted the feed and re-directed it to...
View ArticleLearning to See →
Oliver Reichenstein’s love letter to Design. A must read. Here’s a snippet from the conclusion:It is not the hand that makes the designer, it’s the eye. Learning to design is learning to see....
View ArticleYet Another New Bloody Design
Five months ago, I retired my Tumblr ‘blog’1 and set up Jekyll to replace my personal site. I’ve written more in that time than I did in the three years prior; as a result, more people seem to be...
View ArticleThe Implied Elements of Pagination
Pagination can take many different forms. However, it’s generally made up of labels, indicators, arrows, or some combination of the three. There’s no single perfect implementation. But we can get close...
View ArticleMedia Queries are a Hack →
Ian Storm Taylor puts forward the idea that Media Queries make writing modular CSS difficult:The big buzzwords in CSS these days are “modular” and “responsive”—and for good reasons. But we’re still...
View ArticleJekyll Reading Time
Some of my posts now include an estimated reading time. I did this by taking the Liquid Filter, number_of_words and—based on a reading rate of 180wpm—used other Liquid filters to convert it to an...
View Article1140px CSS Grid Retired
It’s been about two and a half years since I released the 1140px CSS Grid. Initial response was exciting; lots of people used it. However, a lot has happened in that time. When it was released, the...
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