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If you write CSS and you’re not using SASS & Compass yet, you should stop whatever you’re doing and go download Codekit right now. Do it, you’ll thank me later. But if you’re already familiar with the awesomeness that is SASS, I’d like to share a small tip about handling color variables. The CSS Way First of all, just so we’re all on the same page, here’s how you’d use colors in plain old dumb CSS

For some reason I’ve been spending a lot of time on Hacker News lately. And I couldn’t help but notice that the Go language is getting a lot of hype. I don’t know much about Go, so I naturally looked up the language’s homepage. Now there are two possible reactions when seeing this page: “Wow, that’s an unappealing site!” “Hmm, that’s a perfectly normal programming language site.” Of course, both a

I’m not Japanese. But ever since my wife and I moved to Kyoto, the Internet sure seems to think we are. Google is supposedly this big, Skynet-like company that lives to collect data on us. Yet it’s not very smart about language. As soon as we stepped foot in the land of the rising sun, it asked my wife if she wanted to display Google in Japanese, and she clicked “yes” by mistake. Not only did Goog

I was listening to Patrick McKenzie’s podcast (with Amy Hoy as a guest), and they touched on something that I had heard before: when you offer multiple plans for a service, the cheapest plan’s customers tends to require the most support. Now at first this seems counter-intuitive. You’d expect the opposite: that the people who pay the most feel more entitled to support, and thus ask for more of it.

It’s very surprising to see a post entitled “Please Don’t Learn to Code” at the top of Hacker News, and even more surprising that its author would be Jeff Atwood of CodingHorror and StackOverflow fame. Jeff is arguing that not everybody needs to learn to code, and in fact the world doesn’t need more mediocre coders. So he’s not that enthusiastic about recent initiatives like CodeYear that aim to d

Code Year is a great initiative by the folks behind Codecademy. The concept is simple: sign up to Code Year, and each week you’ll receive a new coding exercise. By the end of the year, you’ll be well on your way to becoming a coder. So far more than 75,000 people have signed up for the newsletter, making this one of the most quickly successful projects I’ve ever been involved with by far! Here’s h