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2017 Posts

  1. Narrow and wide spread column math
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    Understanding ‘Spread’ in Susy3

    Susy 3.0 will be released in the next week, if all goes well, and there’s a lot to write about it. I wanted to start with a detailed overview of one core concept: spread.

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  2. Mechanical neck drawing
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    Stop Being Productive

    It’s time to re-think what we’re measuring

    Miriam reflects on the nature and value of productivity for the SuperYesMore series: The Human in the Machine.

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  3. CSS-Tricks
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    Fun with Viewport Units

    Viewport units have been around for several years now, with near-perfect support in the major browsers, but I keep finding new and exciting ways to use them. I thought it would be fun to review the basics, and then round-up some of my favorite use-cases.

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  4. Workspace
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    Event: Live Q&A with OddBird

    Are you a startup founder looking to develop a new web app, or a company interested in expanding your web services? Here’s your chance to ask all those questions that keep you up at night.

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    Old photograph of operators
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    Django, Background Processes, and Keeping Users in the Loop

    When you have out-of-band processing in a web app, how do you let users know that the status of a task has changed? Depending on your front-end client, there are a few different approaches you might take.

  6. Name tags
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    Three Names to Include in Your User Model

    (None of them is the username)

    The term “username” is ambiguous. When designing a user model there are several kinds of names that are useful to include.

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  7. Old phone
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    Making Function Calls Across Sass Versions

    You don’t need safe-get-function utilities

    The Sass 3.5 Release Candidate includes support for first-class functions. What are they, how do we use them, and what tools can we use to future-proof our Sass toolkits in advance?

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  8. Spam semi truck
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    Blocking Analytics Spam

    Google Analytics is great for gathering data on who uses your web application, but becomes worthless if spam sessions start infesting your data. Here’s how we’ve tried to combat the problem for oddbird.net.

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    Celery stalk resembling a human shape
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    Serializing Things for Celery

    Transmitting objects between web processes and worker processes is a requirement of many modern web apps. Given that the safest way to do so is to use a serialization format that only includes primitive data types, how can we send custom objects around?

  10. Blueprint for NYC signage
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    Code Patterns & Style Guides

    Living Style Guide documentation on the web is a difficult problem, gaining a lot of attention in the last few years. Let’s take an in-depth look at one way to store patterns directly in Sass, and generate documentation automatically.

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  11. Tools for design include a computer, sketchbook, pen and paper
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    Get Started with Design

    Four useful tools & tutorials

    So you’d like to start learning design, but the number of tools and tutorials available is overwhelming. Where do you start? I recommend Paper for sketching out UX ideas, Practical Color Theory for Coders to generate color palettes and learn color theory, Choosing the Right Font: A Practical Guide to…

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  12. CSS-Tricks
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    Getting Started with CSS Grid

    It feels like CSS Grid has been coming for a long time now, but it just now seems to be reaching a point where folks are talking more and more about it and that it’s becoming something we should learning.

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  13. Colored circles in a flow chart
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    Color Theory for Coders

    from Natalya Shelburne

    If you write code and you want to delve into design, Natalya Shelburne’s Practical Color Theory for Coders will get you up and running with a beautiful, cohesive, and accessible color palette using Sass color functions, and teach you why her palettes work so well, all at the same time.

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  14. Mac OS Dock with some of our favoite app icons
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    Tips and Tools We Love

    We wanted to show some love to a few great tools we use to get us through our work days. Do you have any to add to our list?

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  15. Style written on sketchbook page
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    Generating Code Documentation for Polyglot Projects

    Code documentation is ideally written as close to the actual code as possible, but compiled into a comprehensive set of documentation that includes code from all languages in use. Here’s how we intend to do that.

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