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andyford

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About andyford

front-end web developer/designer

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    Comment #30264874

    It's one guy with a Lego fan hobby blog. Not everything needs to be Web Scale all the time

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    Comment #29485516

    As much as I like dunking on Amazon and Bezos, I can't help but wonder if this could be applied to brick and mortar stores where you go in and ask for help finding something and th…

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    Comment #29258158

    Bet on Eleventy... the creator of it works for Netlify

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    Comment #20994905

    how to get to moon without a rocket: 1. go to moon and install thin wire on moon and dangle it toward earth 2. use a rocket to reach wire

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    Comment #16603537

    oops. one of the homepage links points to their dev site http://theparisreview.tierradev.com/interviews/6806/the-art-...

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    Comment #14905470

    I'm glad to see another viable CSS non-framework and Shoelace looks very promising. I haven't put it through its paces yet, but found a nitpicky thing... why have a "table td" sele…

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    Comment #12435672

    one, two and zero are all numbers.

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    Comment #9387708

    rare video indeed

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    Comment #8243021

    Totally awesome. But can't buy the wall map until they fix the "asterix" typo!

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    Comment #2926287

    Whooo! Thank goodness!!! We needed more YUI URLs!

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    Comment #2879739

    The moment before your code looks like this, you use Sass.

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    Comment #2870737

    I can hear it now... "but how do I do it in jQuery?!"

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    Comment #2614148

    http://api.jquery.com/ done

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    Comment #2585728

    The lowercase 'e' in Monofur is a deal breaker. Too reminiscent of italics. And the mixed baseline numerals don't help either. Otherwise it's pretty nice. Of the 10, Inconsolata de…

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    Comment #2406728

    For the OP (and HN readers in general), I recommend Founders Talk - http://5by5.tv/founderstalk . But make sure to check the list of all the shows - http://5by5.tv/broadcasts - lot…

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    Comment #2378369

    This is missing the point. The problem isn't that some designers are losing work to 99designs. The problem is that spec work devalues the entire design industry.

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    Comment #2377208

    Like many of the other commenters, I break the code into reset, global elements, layout, modules/blocks, and then special overrides if any. I'll admit it's a personal preference, b…

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    Comment #2270378

    "iOS is far less usable and powerful than Android, but people like it more because it's visually pleasing." I'd argue that iOS is far more usable than Android in addition to being …

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    Comment #2146893

    They did http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2253110/how-to-manage-css...