Brontosaurus Is Officially A Dinosaur Again – Now if Pluto regains planetary status, all our kindergarten knowledge will be valid again.
Month: April 2015
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Panel appearance
What the CEO/Board needs from Technical Leaders – Sydney Technology Leaders (Sydney) – Meetup – Very last minute news – I’m going to be appearing on a panel at the next Sydney Technology Leaders meetup on Thursday! Please say hello if you attend.
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Photo post
It’s important to ease oneself back into work mode after a long weekend. @ Lord Nelson Brewery Hotel
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Reading on Flipboard
- “There’s no way to win”: Ellen Pao shakes up Reddit by eliminating salary negotiation in hiring
- Nick Offerman knows what Ron Swanson would think about Indiana’s new anti-gay law
- Turn your iPhone into a Game Boy, and yourself into the child you once were
- “I got 4 bikes”: 2 Nickelodeon Super Toy Run winners reminisce 20 years later
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Soothing.
Meet the Man Behind `Solarized,’ the Most Important Color Scheme in Computer History | | Observer – Interesting article, and it prompted me to finally install Solarized for TextWrangler, my old school editor of choice.
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Shared today on Twitter
Over breakfast I finally, FINALLY managed to convert 15 years of blog posts all to UTF-8. Thank you @the_snook for helping! #winning
@gilmae WordPress? Bah. Never touched it. It’s my home-built CMS. 😛
@gilmae And when I built it in 2001 on a shitty iMac, I had *no clue* what I was doing. Still only know enough to be dangerous. 🙂
@gilmae Nah, it’s just PHP that writes to a DB. I used to give the source code away but stopped when I got tired of supporting it.
Happy Dyngus Day! We made pierogies and borscht. (The world needs more holidays involving dumplings.)… https://t.co/3qMkl1dr5i
@blahblahzine I get an error when I click on the link!
w-g: It’s a responsive world. REFACTOR ALL THE THINGS! http://t.co/QnAvyX8RAK
@ignitesydney Ha! I spent the weekend doing exactly the same on my sites. 🙂
@jannism Just man up and drink the pint! 😛
@jannism It’s a hard country. It changes a person.
@mobywhale Thanks! And let’s be honest – without the social media I’d rarely post. It’s laziness disguised as a feature. 🙂
Reading: ““I got 4 bikes”: 2 Nickelodeon Super Toy Run winners reminisce 20 years later” http://t.co/KpQDgDsnI0
Roger Sterling’s New Mustache Is Amazing — Vulture – PHWOAR. [url]http://t.co/EnpVBZmlBg
Reading: “Turn your iPhone into a Game Boy, and yourself into the child you once were” http://t.co/LrOgOOm27c
RT @blahblahzine: Thank you for the tips on reducing car use @web_goddess @planningqueen @GoGet http://t.co/1HmUGzfMi3
Reading: “Nick Offerman knows what Ron Swanson would think about Indiana’s new anti-gay law” http://t.co/S0UnYe0qzm
@blahblahzine It works fine on my iPhone. But on my Mac in Chome, it looks like this: http://t.co/kZ5WFTzPyG
Reading: ““There’s no way to win”: Ellen Pao shakes up Reddit by eliminating salary negotiation in hiring” http://t.co/ilJt1FKTeg
Build for Change: A Product Hackathon with ReachOut Event // @GA is getting into the #altruismautumn spirit! https://t.co/fBw0n4S4qx
RT @mpesce: THE GREATEST TUMBLR OF ALL TIME http://t.co/HLcGQO2PZL
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It’s a responsive world.
So obviously things have changed slightly around here. I spent a great deal of my four-day weekend in front of my laptop implementing a responsive design across both this site and a new professional site that I launched. For both of them, I used templates from HTML5 UP!. (I realise a template might be cheating/overkill, but it was a great starting point for someone whose CSS and HTML are decidedly rusty.) Along the way I learned heaps about character encoding (and how blog has been effed up in that regard for FIFTEEN YEARS), retina images, parallax scrolling, javascript minification, and lots of other stuff that’s come in since I stopped working as a dev. The blog is getting there. I’m still cleaning up a lot of cruft in the Photos section – about half the pages are still broken – and then I’ve got to tackle the DB itself. (Let’s just say I have a bad habit of typing HTML straight into my blog posts.) Damn, refactoring is addictive though. I’m having trouble stopping to go to bed! I’ve missed this. Make sure you check out the sites on your tablet or smartphone, and tell me if you find anything that looks wonky!
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Photo post
Happy Dyngus Day! We made pierogies and borscht. (The world needs more holidays involving dumplings.)