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TWEET: Calling all web …

Miriam — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:04:23 +0000

Calling all web builders! I took it and so should you—The Survey For People Who Make Websites, 2010: http://j.mp/alasurvey2010

TWEET: @panic any way …

Miriam — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:58:25 +0000

@panic any way I can rewire Coda’s [redacted] implementation of backspace in the terminal? This ^H^H^H^H^H^H^+restart is making me sweary.

^H^H^H backspace, dammit!

Miriam — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:56:39 +0000

I just got Snow Leopard* and it’s blown away some obscure tricks I’d left for myself. This is a note to future me, should I need to fix Coda’s annoying preference of ^H instead of backspace in their terminal window.

As nice as Coda’s UI can be, I’d ditch it, if I could just get TextMate to play nicely with remote projects.

*yes, finally; upgrading from Adobe CS2 had to be in the budget first…

kill trailing spaces with TextMate

Miriam — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:47:00 +0000

I hate untidy code, and always work with invisibles showing. Regardless, sometimes spacecruft slips through. Here’s two ways to fix that:

I’ve gone with the first option: I think it’s nicer to keep yourself in the habit of watching your code, rather than relying on the software. Also, as the author notes, it blows away any bookmarking and code folds. If you’re working with large files and hit save at least every five minutes like I do, well… that sucks as much as Coda’s lack of code folding does.

Facebook CSS workaround number infinity

Miriam — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:11:20 +0000

If you’ve ever had to deal with any development for Facebook, you’ll remember that they strip out browser hacks from your CSS–fun for you, when the client OMG needs something to work in IE6. They also strip out the more forward-y browser-specific styles, while using them liberally themselves.

Their CSS, which was putting an unfortunate border on our buttons:
uiButton, .uiButtonSuppressed:hover, .uiButtonSuppressed:active, .uiButtonSuppressed:focus { -moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); }

Here’s how to get around that:
.uiButton:after { content: "OMGFACEBOOKIHATEYOU"; display: block; color: #fff; margin-top: 44px; /* height of your button */ border-top: 1px solid #fff; }

Ta-da.

TWEET: I just installed …

Miriam — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:07:36 +0000

I just installed my favorite WordPress plug-in ever: Shockingly Big IE6 Warning http://bit.ly/15mEI4

zen software dev scheduling

Miriam — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:57:16 +0000

“When writers write, they discover what they actually think. When developers develop, they discover what the customer actually needed. Both conclusions happen near the end of the process, and invariably require going back and starting all over again. Nobody knows what the program should do until it doesn’t do it.”

tweet: @casey_mk “abandoning web …

Miriam — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:43:28 +0000

@casey_mk “abandoning web standards” implies MS/Office ever followed them…

HTTP Status Code 417 Explained

Miriam — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:05:12 +0000

No, you can’t have a pony.

new horror genre idea

Miriam — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:28:39 +0000

{jmac} but that’s not this, ’cause it should definitely at least try, and then fail spectacularly

{me} *hearts it when things fail spectacularly.*
  err, ok by things i mean code
  not life-critical things
  err, ok by things i mean code and by code i mean dev code
  not traffic lights and other important real code

{jmac} new horror movie: br****nt coded your pacemaker

{me} omg i LOLd for real

{jmac}

code snippet of the day

Miriam — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:07:07 +0000

[% IF gimmelove > 0 %]

It could be argued that since this application is built with Perl/Catalyst/Template Toolkit, the answer would never be more than zero… but I still appreciate the Easter Egg!

The BLANK of Reilly

Miriam — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:36:05 +0000

I’d be excited to see the Charles Nelson Reilly one-man-show movie, even if my brother hadn’t designed the gorgeous poster and site. I hope it comes to Sundance 608 soon.

crapspackle! Naked!

Miriam — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:00:53 +0000

In a foolish attempt to make a quick fix to my CSS, I edited the live file in TextMate via Transmit. I’d forgotten that that feature had been flaking out on me recently, and, well… mah file done got et. There’s no backup (on this machine), and GoogleCache and the Wayback Machine have failed me, so things are going to look a little DEFAULT today.

Eek! Masher!

update! I found this old thing in the closet…

silly lawyers should read their laws

Miriam — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:49:38 +0000

im in ur source code, laffing at ur HTML

testing some code

Miriam — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:47:42 +0000

(Cute, not icky.)

Miriam — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:29:49 +0000

Nice short web spot from Europe about blood donation.
via adverblog

handy web designer widgets

Miriam — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:22:37 +0000

HTML entity character lookup and Character Pal.

web development in a nutshell

Miriam — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:54:09 +0000

A Chinese court has jailed two officials after they let a blind contractor build a bridge which collapsed during construction and injured 12 people, the official Xinhua news agency said Monday…. “After the blind contractor changed the blueprint, he carried out the work only using a roughly drawn draft of the plan, which caused the bridge to collapse,” the report said. Xinhua did not explain how the contractor was able to run the project considering his inability to see.

Via Tha Bryzzzah

battle song!

Miriam — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 20:21:40 +0000

live every week like it’s shark week
by Wesley Willis

You are my special working hard bish.
You are the best in the long run.
You really whoop a snow leopard’s ass.
You really whoop a snow leopard’s ass.

LIVE EVERY WEEK LIKE IT’S SHARK WEEK!!!
LIVE EVERY WEEK LIKE IT’S SHARK WEEK!!!
LIVE EVERY WEEK LIKE IT’S SHARK WEEK!!!
LIVE EVERY WEEK LIKE IT’S SHARK WEEK!!!

Every week that’s like shark week is very special to me.
dynagirl.com is the best in the long run.
I like you a lot in the long run.
You really whoop Saddam Hussein’s ass.