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Mixins in SASS are great, however, there is a downside to using them for your OOSASS. Mixins bloat the output code. Every time you call a mixin it includes the output of the mixin in your final CSS.  The obvious solution is placeholders, but placeholders don’t work well with parameters or with BEM-style css class names. I’ve come up with a solu...

For a while now I've been struggling with keeping a browser for work stuff, and a browser for home stuff on my same user account in OS X. Luckily, I found a great piece of software that solves this problem perfectly (almost). The software is Choosy.  It costs $12 and perfectly solves most multiple web browser problems you come across on a M...

As an exercise in programming and learning some new javascript features, I've written my resume as JSON. The JSON gets loaded and turned into Markdown via handlebars.js, which then gets converted into HTML by marked.js. The page also uses require.js for module loading and highlight.js for syntax highlighti...

This is just wrong. But I'm sure @caseyliss would like it.

Apple is celebrating 30 Years of the Macintosh today. They've put up a website celebrating it. My first Macintosh that I owned was an iBook G4. At the time I was mostly a Linux user, waiting patiently for Linux on the Desktop to take off. I had bought a $400 used ASUS laptop from a guy in our Linux User's Group at the time and the screen had jus...

After listening to Mac Power Users #173 I decided to repurpose a USB key I had on my keychain into a 1password emergency data store. There's only one problem with this. Browsers have recently been locking down "local" file access, so the normal method of opening up the 1password.html file in Safari doesn't work. You'll know it doesn't work when ...

As an Adobe Creative Cloud Subscriber, I'm disappointed in the actual Creative Cloud application on the Mac. However, this feature I found in the Photoshop menu made me smile. Well done Adobe.. Well done. Now just fix that abomination that lives in my menubar.

This article from CNET Reviews explains Dolby's new HDR TV Technology they showed off at CES. Forget 4K, this is what we really want. This will make televisions look more like you are looking out a window.