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Website Style Guide Resources
In the last few months I’ve been posting links about front-end style guides and related resources. Well, this one has them all. It’s an extensive collection of articles, books, talks, tools and even podcasts about style guides and pattern libraries. I think one of these days I’ll write a longer...
My Setup
I wanted to talk about some tools I use so I wrote down a list that I called “Nerd Fun Tools”, but then I found this blog full of nerdy interviews with people talking about stuff they use. I think that’s a better format than just writing a trillion nerdy...
Migrating to Jekyll
I just migrated the content of this blog to Jekyll. I’ve been using Textpattern as my CMS of choice for years, but I wanted to try something new and my blog is the perfect place to experiment. The process has been pretty smooth and I’m surprised of how easy it...
The Accessibility Project
A community-driven effort to make web accessibility easier. Good selection of articles, how-tos and other resources.
Design Kit
Design Kit is IDEO.org's platform to learn human-centered design, a creative approach to solving the world's most difficult problems. There's a really nice free PDF that explains the principles of HCD.
I refactored CSS for 9 months and I survived
I think that during the last 9 months I spent 80% of my time at work writing or refactoring CSS. Exciting, right? Well, the truth is that I had to change my mentality about how to do this kind of stuff. I had many years of experience doing CSS for...
Build A Blog With Jekyll And GitHub Pages | Smashing Magazine
Up and running with Jekyll and GitHub Pages! Good tutorial that helped me with the migration of this site to Jekyll.
To blog or not to blog
In the last few weeks I felt like I needed to write again and update this blog. Oh yes, I know this sounds like a cheap new year’s resolution and I know I have written these exact same words before, but this time I want to take it a bit...
Portland, OR
A few weeks ago I had the chance to visit Portland. Lightspeed opened a new office there so it was the perfect excuse to visit another city and another state! I have to say that I loved the place. In fact, I loved it so much that I’m considering moving...
Graphic Design in Swiss Industry / Schweizer Industrie Grafik - a set on Flickr
Pictures from the book. 1965 - Hans Neuburg