Remember non-vendor-prefixed CSS 3 properties (and put them last)
Everybody wants to use CSS 3 now that even Internet Explorer will support parts of it once IE 9 is out. But since parts of CSS 3 are still subject to change, most browsers use a vendor prefix for many CSS 3 properties to signal that their implemenation is
Publication date: 2010-09-02
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30 day challenge update: meditation!
It’s time for an update on my 30 day challenges. Here’s what I’ve done the last few months:
June: I didn’t respond to email after 10 p.m. and I read the New Testament of the Bible. Both were interesting in different ways. It turns out that 10 p.m. is a pretty good time for me to [...]
Publication date: 2010-09-02
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What characters are allowed unencoded in query strings?
A couple of months ago I advised people to Be careful with non-ascii characters in URLs. We
Publication date: 2010-08-30
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Minimise file size with the YUI Compressor TextMate Bundle
It
Publication date: 2010-08-26
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Climbing Kilimanjaro
“Don’t think. Just walk.” — a fellow hiker.
Last week I returned from climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa. I’ll start with the bottom line: I made it to the top!
That’s three of us at sunrise on the sixth day. We took the Machame route, which takes seven days. In theory, you could march [...]
Publication date: 2010-08-24
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CSS3 is not HTML5
There
Publication date: 2010-08-23
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Switching between dev and beta Chrome channels on Linux
If you’re on Linux (say Ubuntu 10.04, also known as Lucid Lynx), you can switch between the developer (dev) and beta channels of Chrome like this:
Switch from Beta to Dev:
sudo apt-get install google-chrome-unstable
Switch from Dev to Beta:
sudo apt-get install google-chrome-beta
That’s easier for me than going back for the .deb file and doing something with it.
Also, [...]
Publication date: 2010-08-21
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No longdesc attribute in HTML5
According to an HTML Working Group Decision, the longdesc attribute will not be included in the HTML5 specification. Not everybody is happy with that decision, so whether longdesc is still out when HTML5 is finished remains to be seen.
In case you aren
Publication date: 2010-08-20
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Please don't resize my browser window
As I mentioned recently in Frustrated by the Web, I
Publication date: 2010-08-16
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Frustrated by the Web
So I
Publication date: 2010-08-10
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Climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro
I’m leaving Tuesday to try to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. If you want to show your support, please donate at charity:water. Anyone who wants to give is welcome.
Mt. Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa, at 19,340 feet (5895 meters). It’s hard to climb Kilimanjaro, mainly because of the altitude. I’ll be completely without [...]
Publication date: 2010-08-02
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How to find start-up ideas
Chris Dixon had an interesting post a while ago about how to find start-up ideas. The advice boiled down to keeping a spreadsheet of ideas and talking to lots of smart people (entrepreneurs, potential customers, VCs, people at big companies). It’s good advice. Paul Graham also wrote in 2008 about startup ideas he’d like to [...]
Publication date: 2010-07-19
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Webspam projects in 2010?
About a year and a half ago, I asked for suggestions for webspam projects for 2009. The feedback that we got was extremely helpful. It’s almost exactly the middle of 2010, so it seemed like a good time to ask again: what projects do you think webspam should work on in 2010 and beyond?
Here’s the [...]
Publication date: 2010-06-30
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[POLL] Help me pick my next 30-day challenge!
This month I made my 30 day challenge be “Don’t respond to email after 10 p.m.” I’ve done very well overall on this challenge, and I like the results a lot. I’ll probably try to keep up this behavior.
Now I need to pick my next challenge. I read through the 350+ suggestions and comments that [...]
Publication date: 2010-06-24
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Vacation
Yep, it
Publication date: 2010-06-16
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