Is Attention Deficit Disorder a liability in the Knowledge Economy? I don’t think so. I’ve found it to be quite useful, in fact. The fact that ADHD is looked at as a problem at all just shows that our educational system sucks. …Read More
Top 5 CSS Mistakes
This is not a post about the top 10 mistakes that developers make when they write CSS. That’s boring.
The CSS spec itself is littered with mistakes. Deep, fundamentally misguided errors. Real head-slapping WTFs that make you wonder if the people writing the spec had ever created a website in their lives. …Read More
Real World Advice for Fledgling Web Developers
A fellow front-end engineer here at Yahoo! asked for bits of real-world advice that we would give to up-and-coming front-end engineering students. He’s doing a talk at a school, and was curious about what we’ve learned. It struck me as a perfect idea for a blog post.
Any other front-end professionals out there? What would be your pieces of advice? …Read More
Applescript for iTerm (and a request for help with it)
iTerm is a major part of my workspace. I’m a big fan of tabbed interfaces, and my fingers have gotten really good at the Apple-← and Apple-→ key combos to swap between them. I usually have three tabs going:
One that runs Unison in batch mode to keep my mac and BSD machines in …Read More
Fix for Vi’s broken arrow key support in iTerm
Fixing the broken arrow-key support in Vi when using iTerm. Incorporating some help from comments I got when I first wrote about this problem elsewhere. Short answer: Set the default terminal setting to linux and everything Just Works. …Read More
Whiting out ads: Is AdBlock even Necessary?
Some people are blocking Firefox users because they feel that the AdBlock Plus plugin is “tantamount to theft.” This attitude is woefully wrongheaded—even without the plugin, you can’t stop Banner Blindness. …Read More