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PSA: Use a CDN for external assets like HTML5shiv
23 Jan 2015
The fast, easy, and free way to load external assets
To my fellow builders of websites: when you want to include an external resource on a webpage, do not use a publicly-accessible version control system to serve the resource. I...
Towards a more perfect link underline
28 Nov 2014
progress in underline text-decoration in Safari and iOS
I became interested in trying to create the ideal text underline in CSS after reading an excellent post about it on (and about) Medium. In that post, Marcin Wichary offers...
Older thoughts
- 19 Aug 2013
- Readable light text on dark backgrounds: a case study
- 30 Jul 2012
- Dynamic range compression: an explanation
- 25 Jan 2012
- The story of our craft