Archive: June 26th, 2015

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It was another beautiful day in Sussex and the other Clearlefties made full use of it by going on a cross-country hike culminating with a well-earned beer’n’food stop in a pub.

I couldn’t join them though because I had band practice: three hours of hammering out Salter Cane songs. This time though, the hammering was a touch lighter. We’ve got a gig in The Greys pub coming up on Saturday, July 11th—come along!—and it’s not the most spacious of venues (to put it mildly) so we tried practicing a bit quieter than we normally would.

Still sounded great.

Pizza night!

Pizza night!

The most refreshing CSS colour value. #beerleft

The most refreshing CSS colour value. #beerleft

Removing my armour after three hours of playing music with @SalterCane.

Removing my armour after three hours of playing music with @SalterCane.

When Responsive Images Get Ugly by Taylor Hunt on CodePen

This is a deep, deep dive into responsive images and I can only follow about half of it, but there are some really useful suggestions in here (I particularly like the ideas for swapping out images for print).

These boys are going hiking!

These boys are going hiking!

2 Kinds of People

Dividing the world in two.

Every half-decade or so, web devs cry out for a :parent selector in CSS—no luck yet.

https://remysharp.com/2010/10/11/css-parent-selector