I had my own Tetris phase, when I was a teenager, and spent more hours than I should have trying to align the falling blocks in rows. Recently, I started thinking about why games like Tetris are so compelling. My conclusion? It’s to do with a deep-seated psychological drive to tidy up. The psychology of …
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Firefox Command Line
The command line gives you quick keyboard control over your tools and access to features that don’t have any other user interface. With the GCLI, included in Firefox 16 (now in beta), you can start the built-in inspector … inspect "#home-news h3" … or can even grab a screenshot of certain element … screenshot heading.png …
Contre Jour
Hauntingly beautiful, pleasantly challenging and strangely addicting – Contre Jour is now on the web! Swing, shoot, drop or fling Petit through 30 free challenging levels right in your browser. Very nice iOS game (been playing it for quite some time now), ported to the web by to celebrate the upcomig Internet Explorer 10 team …
WebPlatform.org
Webplatform.org is a community-driven site that aims to become a comprehensive source for web developer documentation. The founding members of Web Platform Docs have already contributed a lot of content to this project, but you can help too Basically this has to become your go-to site if you’re looking for information to creating websites, instead …
Clearless — A collection of reusable LESS mixins
Responsive Patterns
The story of the new Microsoft.com
A few weeks ago Microsoft silently launched a new home page. It was meant to be a temporary launch for the purposes of some preliminary testing. This week marked the real launch of the new Microsoft.com home page. And as someone who has been involved on and off with the project from the moment it …
SlabText — A jQuery Plugin for producing big, bold & responsive headlines
Put simply, the script splits headlines into rows before resizing each row to fill the available horizontal space. The ideal number of characters to set on each row is calculated by dividing the available width by the pixel font-size – the script then uses this ideal character count to split the headline into word combinations …
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