It’s tough to do maintenance work on a moving vehicle, but that’s exactly what you were hired for. From It’s Not Just Technical Debt; Everything Gets Painful & Slow as You Scale →
BigScreen — Using the JavaScript Full Screen API
BigScreen makes it easy to use full screen on your site or in your app. It smoothes out browser inconsistencies and bugs, especially if the element you’re working with is inside of an <iframe>. It will also intelligently fall back to the older video full screen API if the element contains a <video> and the …
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Zero-config development with Apache’s VirtualDocumentRoot and xip.io
# Use name-based virtual hosting. NameVirtualHost *:80 UseCanonicalName Off # ~/Sites/ vhost configuration – sends foo.bar.dev to ~/Sites/bar/foo <VirtualHost *:80> VirtualDocumentRoot /Users/dave/Sites/%2/%1 <Directory "/Users/dave/Sites"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> </VirtualHost> What that VirtualDocumentRoot does is map the above company and project to the %2 and %1 variables, respectively. …
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OS X Hex Color Picker
Paper’s Color Mixer
Paper by 53 (recommended app) now sports an innovative color mixer / color picker. Turns out it was quite a mathematical struggle to implement it too. We learned in elementary school that yellow and blue when mixed turn green. However when you plug in the values to this equation, you get a different result: Gray! …
The <main> Element
The ARIA role main is intended to serve as an alternative to a “skip to main content” link, something especially helpful to users accessing a site by way of assistive tech or navigating by keyboard alone. It provides the browser (or the users’ assistive software) with a predictable landmark for the page’s primary content so …
Facebook – Instagram
So Facebook bought Instagram back in April and the two entities would remain separate. As Zuck put it: We’re committed to building and growing Instagram independently. Yesterday Instagram announced profile pages, which resemble the Facebook Timeline header quite a lot imo. Today Faceboook released an update for their iOS app, adding photo filters. One cannot …
The two colors of Hollywood
Explore a Google data center with Street View
Facebook Demetricator
The Facebook interface is filled with numbers. These numbers, or metrics, measure and present our social value and activity, enumerating friends, likes, comments, and more. Facebook Demetricator is a web browser addon that hides these metrics. No longer is the focus on how many friends you have or on how much they like your status, …