Blogging and all that Malarkey

The app uses regular expressions to find the parts of the selector which contribute to specificity. It highlights each part with a background colour to help you learn the specificity rules. Then of course, there’s always Star Wars.

Aarron Walter is one of those people I wish I could spend more time with. Every time we’re together, I learn so much from him. Here, Aarron tells the story of how he helped me make my talk at Smashing Conference more balanced and inclusive (he does that to me a lot), particularly when it comes to (so-called) UX. This article is published on On My Mind, Aarron’s email newsletter, which is well worth subscribing to.

This seems like a lot of work, but I am acutely aware how large some of the high-resolution (retina) assets are on this site. Via Jeffrey, who thinks “this is madness.”

Stu’s compiled a great list of resources for LESS users (like me) who need to use, or want to switch (Blah. Blah. LESS. Sass. Sass. LESS. Blah. Blah.) to using Sass. Personally, I love LESS. But the real kicker is that I’m trialling a soon-to-be-released compiler that compiles Sass but not LESS, and it doesn’t play nicely with Codekit. That alone could persuade me to make the move to Sass. (For God’s sake don’t tell Jina Bolton that.)

My design hero, TrentWalton, on how he and his amigos responsively redesigned the Microsoft.com homepage.

My first article for Smashing Magazine is my (ever so expanded) notes from my talk at the fabulous Smashing Conference in Freiburg. The original title was “How to call your client an idiot, to their face, without getting fired, then have them thank you for it.” I still like that one best, but we didn’t want a controversial title to get in the way of the serious points I wanted to make.

I know RSS isn’t perhaps what it was for a lot of people, but it’s still as important to me as Twitter as a source of good content, and well, you know what they say about eggs and baskets. Today I’m making some changes to Stuff and Nonsense’s RSS.

I’ve also expanded on my notes from my talk for my first article for Smashing Magazine, to be published any day now. Read that, read this, then watch the video from the conference (also coming soon) and you’ll have me in 3D. Fancy that.

Create truly responsive layouts thanks to an intuitive user interface. Design simultaneously for all screen sizes without sacrificing quality or capability. Fireworks is dead.

There’s been a lot written about device testing over the last year. Jeremy instigating open device testing labs has rightly generated a lot of column inches like Smashing Magazine’s Establishing An Open Device Lab. However, I think we need to be clear just what we mean by testing.