Felicity Evans explains her vision for Sass on A List Apart: [A]longside the wide-scale adoption of Sass (which I applaud), I’ve observed a steady decline in the quality of outputted CSS (which I bemoan). It makes sense: Sass introduces a layer of abstraction between the author and the stylesheets. But we need a way...

For the past couple of months, I’ve been having problems charging my iPhone 4S. Initially, I thought it must be due to a bent pin, possibly the result of using a cheap cable when trying to charge my phone in the car. I bought more cables, but the problem persisted, as the connection between the cable and the dock...

The development of this Jekyll blog continues with the addition of a sitemap, for which thanks to havvg. Simply create a file called sitemap.xml in the root of your Jekyll site and add the following code: <script src="https://gist.github.com/USERNAME/506f037ad499cb93de2a.js"></script> My first attempt to create a...

When this site switched to Jekyll back in August 2014, the overwhelming reason for the move was a desire to return to a static, file-based blog. But there was a nagging suspicion that I would struggle to incorporate the principles of the IndieWeb using Jekyll. That was never an issue with WordPress where there’s a...

Finally, I have version control in operation for a number of my sites, thanks in no small part to Lucy Beer: [A]t its most basic, version control is a system that tracks all the changes you make to your files. This is helpful even for solo developers for a variety of reasons. It provides a complete log of all your...

Project view in Things for Mac The iPad and iPhone versions of Things, the task management app, are currently available for free from the App Store. That’s a saving of $19.99 on the iPad version and $9.99 on the iPhone app. Developer Cultured Code is also offering a 30% discount on the Mac version of Things, down...

Yesterday, MacSparky posted an update to his Mail Send-From Trick. If you use Apple’s Mail, follow those links to find out more. Having to lift my hands from the keyboard just to toggle the reply-from menu has been bugging me for some time, especially as I often use three different addresses through the course of...

Maryn McKenna, for Wired: Infection prevention is a science of tiny details, all of them granular, almost none of them interesting to anyone outside the field. Granular means not just figuring out which protective equipment workers should wear in which situation — not as obvious as you would think, because the more...

Rachel Andrew: If you are not VAT registered then you might be thinking you can avoid all of this. I have bad news. Some countries – in particular the UK – have a very high VAT registration threshold. So lots of freelancers and micro-enterprises do not need to register for VAT. However, other countries have a low or...

David Cohen: It’s been interesting to see all the discussion of whether the goals of ello are compatible with the goals of their investors. Since my goal is simply to support great founders, I think there’s no issue. I’ve always been one to invest in people with great ideas who put their users first and are looking...

Write for Mac: nvALT with syntax highlighting and more Write for Mac is like nvALT with syntax highlighting. nvALT has been my notes manager for four years, but I do most of my writing and editing in MultiMarkdown Composer 2 and Ulysses because both provide syntax highlighting, which makes both writing and editing...

This is a stub post. It serves only to tell you that this site is a work in progress. My main blog still lives in WordPress. The site you are looking at is built in Jekyll, which transforms my plain old Markdown files into a static website. This blog is no stranger to flat, file-based website systems. A couple of...