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Project Detritus 3 weeks ago

Zielun asks of managing projects: It often happens in projects that based on one, large system with tons of modules that can be enabled or disabled, and documentation is often not up-to-date or doesn`t exist at all. At least I have such experience. I know that real problem lies elsewhere like in …

CoffeeConsole: A Chrome Extension last month

Harry Brundage , a co-worker of mine at Shopify , does a lot of CoffeeScript development and said he would love to be able to do CoffeeScript right from the console in Chrome's Web Inspector. I asked Paul Irish , a "dev relations guy" at Google, to point me in the right direction on building …

Definition Lists versus Tables last month

I remember a couple years ago speaking at An Event Apart and mentioning how I don't use the definition list. I may have said it a few times, to the annoyance of the audience. When pushed on why I don't use definition lists, I mentioned that screenreaders read out that a term is equal to a …

Going Simple with JavaScript 2 months ago

I was making a change to a page that needed to pull from a remote API and make changes to various parts of the page. Sounds like the time to pull out jQuery and Ajax, doesn't it? Instead, I just used old fashioned JavaScript. Actually, I used new fashioned JavaScript. Browsers haven't stood …

Prefixed Classes in Bootstrap 2 months ago

Mark Otto talks briefly about their decision to use prefixed classes with Bootstrap . "Prefixed classes guide developers towards a simpler and more maintainable direction for building an extensive CSS design system." He goes on to say... "There’s no bleeding of styles or …

My Notes on Writing an E-book 3 months ago

So, yeah. I wrote an e-book . It has been an interesting experience and I thought I'd share a few random thoughts on how things have gone so far. Backwards When I first started down the path of writing the SMACSS e-book, I had intended it to be either an e-book or a printed book. After months of …

Naming Convention in CSS 3 months ago

My mind is on CSS quite a bit these days. At Shopify , I'm jumping into projects that already well under way. As a result, it's been a great way to look at what I wrote in SMACSS and see how applicable it is to yet another project. (As if Yahoo! wasn't already enough of a testing ground.) With …

Handling CSS Transitions with prepareTransition 4 months ago

Using CSS transitions can be quite fun. But what's not fun is when you want to transition something that needs to use display:none or visibility:hidden (or really, any non-transitionable property). For example, let's say you have a dialog. When the user clicks on the close button, you want the …

Reflective 4 months ago

It is once again that time of year where I reflect on the year that has passed and contemplate the year the come. Professionally On a professional level, this has been a fantastic year but still not without its ups and downs. This year capped my second and final year with Yahoo!. Yahoo! has been …

SMACSS Statistics and Gender 4 months ago

I hesitate putting this information out there as I'm not sure what its relevance is. I merely note it as interesting, especially in light of gender inequality in our field. In number crunching the people who have purchased a SMACSS e-book or site membership, I've noticed that the numbers are …

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@emilylewis Montreal! Awesome. Maybe a short trip to Ottawa? :)@snookca

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