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The lobotomized owl

An incredibly simple and brilliant CSS selector that can help establish a vertical rhythm and reduce redundancy. * + * { etc }

Change is what the web is about

wrote this for our corporate blog. Rather than give everyone I know instructions for connecting to our VPN, I thought I'd reproduce it here. The gist is: as we go through

Tables considered good

A little while back, I linked to this article extolling the virtues of display: table-cell. And I wholeheartedly agree. Using table display moves the Holy Grail Layout from hacky and difficult to done

(A series of grunting noises)

I've finally taken my first step into the wide world of yesterday's favorite web technology with a new understanding of Grunt. UPDATE: It wasn't long before I

Better static sites with Jade

UPDATE: I haven't used it in a while but in theory I really still like Jade Pug. If, like me, you've been riding the current wave of preprocessors and