Category: Lab

LESS CSS caching If you’re using LESS and noticing it takes forever to update after you FTP we figured out a fix.
The Perfect Tire Tread ? The Perfect Tire Tread Design?
thumbnail image The future of education? Just read that John Resig, the creator of jQuery, quit Mozilla to work for a company we’d never heard of called Kahn Academy. Can the internet change the way we educate children? Well duh of course it can – with Resig and Kahn working together looks like Kahn Academy might have it all figured out already.
thumbnail image Steve Jobs: How Computers Work Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it’s greater than this other number”—but execute that at a rate of, let’s say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.
thumbnail image FIX: pixelated images on iphone This one was driving us nuts for a while. We had two images that were identical in size and resolution, yet one looked pixelated (aliased) on the iPhone while the other was sharp. Looking through the code didn’t help, everything was identical. The fix was surprising.
WordPress for iOS Messing around with WordPress for iOS, overall I like it, I accidentally deleted a post by trying to cancel out of uploading an image somehow, so it’s not perfect yet, but has a lot of promise. One awesome feature that it includes is geo tagging your posts. A slew of cool applications for this come [...]
thumbnail image Your Website & Facebook Last night mimo (AKA Brent) spoke at the Park Slope Civic Council’s ‘Growing a Brooklyn Business’ initiative at the Montauk Club in Park Slope. Here’s the notes we put together for the event and some thoughts that came afterward.
thumbnail image HTML5 Shell for WordPress We’ve updated our Wordpress shell to take advantage of HTML5, we’re also making it freely available as an open source which we’re hoping will help out others and force us to keep making it better.
WordPress Minify Plugin A while back we were toying with the idea of minifying a lot of my javascript and CSS to speed up page loads. The problem with this is that it requires you to redo the minify process every time you make a change and since we’re making changes to the CSS all the time it doesn’t make sense. Enter WP-Minify
thumbnail image Paula is the best… The designer needs to be ever present because, inevitably, at some side meeting, something will be suggested that will totally destroy the form of the logo…
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