howto How to Export Movie Ratings from Netflix and Import into IMDb When Netflix switched from a 5-star rating scheme to a thumbs up/down model, I realized I was sitting on more than a decade of ratings, and worried they would disappear. I started
newsletters Front-End Newsletters A friend recently asked me how I keep up-to-date on what's happening in the front-end community. It's a great question. It used to be that RSS feeds were the way to go. I'd
japan Pointing and Shouting Your Way to Better Code Time and again we turn to the Japanese for inspiration to improve process and efficiency. Toyota's lean manufacturing processes gave us the concept of kaizen (continuous improvement), as well as the kanban scheduling
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css How to Define CSS Standards for a Team We’re going through a major redesign of our app and every page is given to one person on the team to complete from end-to-end, including creating the HTML structure and styling, and
tech Looking for Work SUCKS Looking for work is an intensely stressful experience. It’s also insidious, because it doesn’t feel like it should be stressful. During a job hunt, I often find myself overwhelmed by the
howto My Sublime Text Setup I've put a bit of work into customizing my Sublime Text setup. It's mostly based on a set of tips from Wes Bos, who literally wrote the book on becoming a Sublime Text
css Code Verbosity Recently I was refactoring some CSS, and I found something like this code snippet: body { font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4; } h1 { font-family: serif; font-size: 36px; font-weight: bold; } Ugh, I thought, why
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css What IS Flexbox? An elegant layout method for a more civilized age. Flexbox is a new layout mode in CSS3. The previous version of CSS defined four layout modes: block layout for laying out documents inline
work culture What I value in a job ATTENTION! I am not looking for work right now. This post is for my own reference, trying to record some thoughts following my most recent job search. Please do not contact me with
work culture Finding Your Door “Hey! I heard you got a new door. How is it?” “Oh, it’s pretty good. When my last door broke unexpectedly, I had to find a new door pretty quick, and I
css The Many Exciting CSS Limits of Internet Explorer Internet Explorer has a number of limits in the way it loads CSS, which can cause some of your styles not to be applied if you unknowingly exceed them. IE9 and lower: A
web development Trust Your Designer, But Review Their Code It can be awkward when your designer says they want to work directly in code. You want to protect the high quality of your front-end layer, but you don’t want to seem
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philosophy Cleaning House When I started blogging 15 years ago, one of the things that drew me to it was the idea of speaking to an audience. The concept of “democratizing” publishing so that anyone could
web development How to use @font-face to avoid faux-italic and bold browser styles Did you know that if you declare a custom font using @font-face, the browser will try to fake the bold and italic styles if it can't find them? This is a clever little
typography How to avoid paragraph gaps when using superscript and subscript Frequently, when I see a webpage with superscript or subscript text, I see associated gaps in the paragraph. This is caused because the default way browsers render super and subscript text is to
