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Ospriet: an audience moderation app built on Twitter(twitter.github.com)
3 points by necolas 14y ago|1 comments
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How an angry maths blog sparked a scientific publishing revolution(guardian.co.uk)
6 points by necolas 15y ago|1 comments
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by necolas 15y ago
Yeah, I don't understand why this gist has been created. Just learn from Mathias's dotfiles repo which also has other useful settings.
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Foresight.js - Another responsive images technique(github.com)
9 points by necolas 15y ago|1 comments
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by necolas 15y ago
> Just wait until Svbtle is finished and open to the public. Does that mean it will be open to _anyone_ and no longer only to people considered to be "intelligent, creative, and witty"?
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Another CSS image replacement technique(nicolasgallagher.com)
25 points by necolas 15y ago|2 comments
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by necolas 15y ago
> I found it a bit curious though that they don't dogfood it on their Github page I do! But it's using and customising only the parts that are needed (...and a few lines of CSS are a bit old and out-of-date).
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About normalize.css: a modern, HTML5-ready alternative to CSS resets(nicolasgallagher.com)
219 points by necolas 15y ago|23 comments
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by necolas 15y ago
Initializr can be used to combine Twitter Bootstrap with HTML5 Boilerplate, and has many other customization options. Today's HTML5 Boilerplate 3.0 release announcement is here - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3558161 ...but for some
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HTML5 Boilerplate 3.0(html5boilerplate.com)
52 points by necolas 15y ago|1 comments
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by necolas 15y ago
There are two significant problems with this: 1. The output CSS contains invalid or unnecessary code. Multiple classes on an elements are incorrectly handled, some form inputs (checkout and radio) are incorrectly referenced, and reference-o
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by necolas 15y ago
You might find Lawrence Lessig's talk at Google interesting: How Money Corrupts Congress—and a Plan to Stop It http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik1AK56FtVc However, the article suggests that if some terrible legislation passed it would igni
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by necolas 15y ago
This isn't an official release yet.
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by necolas 15y ago
Your feedback is probably exactly what the project needs in order to become a better introductory guide. As such, I'm surprised the site doesn't include an obvious link to the GitHub repo/issues [1] so that people who have not been enlighte
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DeCSS3: A bookmarklet for testing your graceful degradation(davatron5000.github.com)
2 points by necolas 15y ago|0 comments
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by necolas 15y ago
Furthermore, apparently "future versions of IE will provide an option in the product for consumers to opt out of automatic upgrading". Source: http://windowsteamblog.com/ie/b/ie/archive/2011/12/15/ie-to-...
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by necolas 15y ago
GitHub repo: https://github.com/Kroc/NoNonsenseForum See it in action: http://forum.camendesign.com/
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NoNonsense Forum - No database, just RSS(camendesign.com)
4 points by necolas 15y ago|1 comments
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by necolas 15y ago
I hacked on the core animation of the Path menu for a few minutes last week (it's pretty rough) using a combination of CSS and JS that is a bit leaner and more flexible. http://jsfiddle.net/necolas/RGYUg/ The benefit of using JS to calcul
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by necolas 15y ago
Same for me. When I was in the equivalent of high school, I had to write essays in Art, English, History, Geography, Latin, Biology, and Physics. History, in particular, explicitly emphasised structured arguments and critical analysis of so
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Move The Web Forward(movethewebforward.org)
126 points by necolas 15y ago|19 comments
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by necolas 15y ago
There are fallbacks in place for all the gradients. They look fine in IE7. The compressed size of the code is more relevant than uncompressed.
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by necolas 15y ago
I was aiming to mimic any existing native sign-in or UI buttons styles for the service in the hope of providing some visual familiarity for visitors who have experience with any particular provider. The Google one borrows from their new but
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by necolas 15y ago
For Facebook, Twitter, GitHub, Google, Yahoo!, Windows Live ID, OpenID. Includes icons and two sizes of button. This code formed the basis of the sign-in buttons I used on this UK deal-sharing website: http://www.oodeals.co.uk/login
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CSS3 Social Sign-in Buttons(nicolasgallagher.com)
70 points by necolas 15y ago|11 comments
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by necolas 15y ago
There are already some efforts to speed up peer-review and make more scientific publications available for free to anyone, e.g., http://www.plosone.org/ > Unless scientists and researchers start to put the interests of collaboration a
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by necolas 15y ago
I made GUI icons out of "normal" HTML using pseudo-elements...but is was an experiment to work within constraints. This kind of stuff is going a bit far.
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by necolas 15y ago
CSS is the wrong tool for the job. Your example would be better served (and easier to maintain) with SVG or Canvas.
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by necolas 15y ago
These use a lot of empty divs. It's no different in approach to the "twitter fail whale in css" experiment of last year.
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by necolas 15y ago
I don't think this is particularly useful. The end result CSS is going to be bloated with large amounts of repeated styles. It also lacks reusable HTML components. The article references Bootstrap, but Bootstrap still produces a grid that i

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