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FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.


Effective Engineer - Notes

What's an Effective Engineer?

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jareware / SCSS.md
Last active August 11, 2025 13:22
Advanced SCSS, or, 16 cool things you may not have known your stylesheets could do

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Advanced SCSS

Or, 16 cool things you may not have known your stylesheets could do. I'd rather have kept it to a nice round number like 10, but they just kept coming. Sorry.

I've been using SCSS/SASS for most of my styling work since 2009, and I'm a huge fan of Compass (by the great @chriseppstein). It really helped many of us through the darkest cross-browser crap. Even though browsers are increasingly playing nice with CSS, another problem has become very topical: managing the complexity in stylesheets as our in-browser apps get larger and larger. SCSS is an indispensable tool for dealing with this.

This isn't an introduction to the language by a long shot; many things probably won't make sense unless you have some SCSS under your belt already. That said, if you're not yet comfy with the basics, check out the aweso

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kogakure / gist:205825
Created October 9, 2009 07:28
Bash: Git – Rename an email address in all old commits.
# Rename an email address in all old commits.
# WARNING: Will change all your commit SHA1s.
# Based off of the script from here:
# http://coffee.geek.nz/how-change-author-git.html
git filter-branch -f --commit-filter '
if [ "$GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL" = "joern.zaefferer@googlemail.com" ];
then
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="joern.zaefferer@gmail.com";
GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="joern.zaefferer@gmail.com";
git commit-tree "$@";