Blogging and all that Malarkey

Add your URL to the input field Click GO (reloads the preview) or press Enter (reloads the page) Admire your good work A little bit of responsive fun from Brisbane based Justin Avery. (Via Jordan Moore who has a name like a country singer but has never drunk moonshine.)

Don’t be a jerk. That about sums it up.

I’ve known about daleks all my life.

I decided that this year I would spend more time in universities and with students than I would at conferences. Maybe that’s because my son’s a student and I’d like to think that he’d appreciate a visiting lecturer. Maybe it’s because I’m not ready for the pressure of larger events yet. Whatever the reason, this week was all about students and my visits to Winchester School Of Art and Manchester Metropolitan University.

(That’s “horse meat free” not “free horse meat”.) In this week’s episode of Unfinished Business, Anna and I follow up last week’s episode with listener questions about the professional (and unprofessional) ways to handle business disputes. We also discuss how best to say goodbye to a client and cue up a few movies to watch and talk about ‘after hours’ in the coming weeks.

BLOKK is a font for quick mock-ups and wireframing for clients who do not understand latin. Brilliant! ( via )

You should know by now that I’m a huge fan of Hammer For Mac. I couldn’t and wouldn’t start a project without it as I’d miss its variables and partials and includes too much. I like Hammer so much I moved from LESS to Sass because of it. If you’re a CodeKit user — and many are — you can get some of Hammer’s functionality in that too. I haven’t had the need to try CodeKit and The Kit Language myself yet, so I’d be keen to know if you have and what you think? Let me know on Twitter @malarkey.

Following on from Three clever people talk about CSS layout, here’s more from Zoe Mickley Gillenwater on Flexbox including a handing comparison between the current specification (2012) and the 2011 syntax implemented sadly by Internet Explorer 10.

This year’s An Event Apart in Atlanta (the first of 2013) looks to have been filled with fantastic new talks. So much so that I’m considering attending one show this year. Once again, Luke does the web a great service by taking notes from the talks. I’d love to hear this one, from Josh Clark, in person.

I sometimes struggle with creating colour schemes, so this is exactly what I need. Using it on a touch device is fun, or on the desktop try hacking the URL if you have a starting colour in mind and carry on from there. Just replace the hex value with your starting colour, color.hailpixel.com/#fa52a6, ( via )