Author Archives: lee

Using CSS3 Transitions to Animate the (Yahoo Weather App’s) Rising Sun

Posted on May 20, 2013

The Yahoo! Weather app for iOS is a triumph of form meeting function. One of its fun visual tricks is how the sunrise and sunset times are presented: Although the Yahoo! app is a native iOS app, MobileSafari’s CSS3 support … Continue reading →

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A quick Sublime hack for faster Sass/CSS editor productivity

Posted on May 6, 2013

tl;dr: I made a Sublime plugin to show the corresponding CSS selector in the status bar when your cursor is next to a closing brace. Here’s why. Staying in flow is one of the hardest and most important things you … Continue reading →

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Get productive: hacking Sublime Text 2 for faster rails/project navigation

Posted on April 22, 2013

Programmer productivity stems from the ability to easily and efficiently navigate, create and edit the code you need to work with. To this end, it’s incredibly important to pay attention to the efficiency of your own daily workflow. If you’re … Continue reading →

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Using the Chrome Inspector to edit your site’s Dark Matter

Posted on April 8, 2013

And by Dark Matter I mean “content that only gets styled by pseudo-selectors”. When you’re rebuilding, re-designing or even tweaking a website, it’s often quite painful to restyle the items on a page that are hidden by default. Navigation panels, … Continue reading →

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How to make Chrome understand the Sass/SCSS in your rails app

Posted on March 25, 2013

When you open the Chrome web inspector, you can browse to the styles that are being applied to your elements. It’s great. Unfortunately, if you’re using a framework like LESS or Sass, then by default Chrome will reference the CSS … Continue reading →

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Next stop San Francisco

Posted on September 18, 2011

In just a few days I’m moving to San Francisco! I’m insanely excited, both about moving to the city and that next month I’ll officially become an employee of Rapportive, Inc. If you’ve never heard of Rapportive, you should check … Continue reading →

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Fixing a Sequel Pro compilation error

Posted on January 16, 2011

I tried to download and build the source code for Sequel Pro today and ran into a hitch. After following the instructions for grabbing the source code and trying to compile it, X-Code refused to succesfully build the app, instead … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year!

Posted on January 3, 2011

Phew, it’s been a while. More soon.

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Using facebook connect (only) to authorize users with authlogic

Posted on May 2, 2010

I’ve been working on our semi-stealthy new webapp for the last couple of months and I’ve been putting off fixing a bug for ages because it was so damned weird. We want users to be able to sign-up with facebook … Continue reading →

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Why Spotify Premium is too expensive, and how to fix it

Posted on January 18, 2010

I recently became a Spotify Premium customer, for two main reasons: I’d spent an afternoon listening to spotify at my desk and wanted to carry on listening to the same playlists on my iPhone while I was walking somewhere. As … Continue reading →

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