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tomdavies / palette.scss
Last active August 29, 2015 13:56
Better colour names with palettes & SASS maps
// Declare colours
$_color-base-grey: rgb(229,231,234);
$palettes: (
purple: (
base: rgb(42,40,80),
light: rgb(51,46,140),
dark: rgb(40,38,65)
),
grey: (
base: $_color-base-grey,
@maxfenton
maxfenton / books2014.md
Last active August 29, 2015 14:04
Books read in 2014

Books I finished reading in 2014.

Challenging myself to finish some books I've started before starting new ones.

Finished:

  • Open City — Teju Cole
  • It’s Complicated – danah boyd
  • Every Day is For the Thief – Teju Cole
  • The People’s Platform – Astra Taylor
  • The Dark – Lemony Snicket
var paras = document.querySelectorAll('p');
for(var p of paras) {
if (p.textContent.startsWith('“')) p.classList.add('p--oq');
}
anonymous
anonymous / index.html
Created February 8, 2013 16:41
A CodePen by YozhEzhi. Masked text - Forked @amanda Hawkins
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Oswald' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<h1 class="ex1">mask-image</h1>
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Hi [redacted],

Some answers for you:

What interested you in composing this image and what does it mean to you.

I work on satellite imagery at Mapbox, so I see a lot of pictures of Earth. I’ve always been interested in the history and culture around the Whole Earth: the image of the sunlit planet floating in space. When the Himawari-8 data started coming out, I tried different things with it, and the most compelling for me was that Whole Earth – what we call a full disk image. Because you get a frame every 10 minutes, you can make a fairly smooth animation, and I wanted to show that off. We don’t get a lot of chances to think about the face of the Earth as something in motion.

As for what it means to me personally, I think of a few things.

This is my default career advice for people starting out in geo/GIS, especially remote sensing, adapted from a response to a letter in 2013.

I'm currently about to start a Geography degree at the University of [Redacted] at [Redacted] with a focus in GIS, and I've been finding that I have an interest in working with imagery. Obviously I should take Remote Sensing and other similar classes, but I'm the type of person who likes to self learn as well. So my question is this: What recommendations would you give to a student who is interested in working with imagery? Are there any self study paths that you could recommend?

I learned on my own and on the job, and there are a lot of important topics in GIS that I don’t know anything about, so I can’t give comprehensive advice. I haven’t arrived anywhere; I’m just ten minutes ahead in the convoy we’re both in. Take these recommendations critically.

Find interesting people. You’ll learn a lot more from a great professor (or mentor, or friend, or conference) o

@caseyg
caseyg / metadata.md
Last active December 30, 2016 15:07

Author/Contributor Metadata

Information about an author can include: firstname, lastname, fullname, lastname-comma-firstname, role, primary-or-notprimary, photo, photo credit, photo orientation, residence, biographical information. Some books have multiple contributors.

Site Notes
iBooks Author information is entered in a native Mac app, iTunes Producer, on the "details" tab of a new book file, and stored locally as an .itmsp file. Dropdown for Role (with an insane long list of predetermined roles), dropdown specifying whether the role is Primary or Not Primary, two text areas for author name: "Firstname Lastname", and "Lastname, Firstname"
Nook Separate fields for First Name, Last Name, and Role, entered on Title & Description page of NOOK Book Details section. Max of 5 "contributor" objects. Plain-textarea limited to 2,500 characters for "About the Author(s)".
Kobo Single text field for "Firstname Lastname". First entry is automatically designated as Primary autho
@csswizardry
csswizardry / email.md
Last active September 5, 2018 14:31
I frequently get asked about over-abstracted CSS, and ‘can CSS be too modular’, so I thought I’d publish this anonymised email I received, along with my reply.
@tkadlec
tkadlec / perf.js
Created April 23, 2015 11:54
Super simple example of adding perf timing to the page display during dev work
(function () {
var perfBar = function(budget) {
window.onload = function() {
window.performance = window.performance || window.mozPerformance || window.msPerformance || window.webkitPerformance || {};
var timing = window.performance.timing,
now = new Date().getTime(),
output, loadTime;
// Modified from Jeremy Keith’s lovely bookmarklet: https://adactio.com/journal/16523
javascript:(function(){open('https://googlechrome.github.io/lighthouse/viewer/?psiurl='+escape(document.location)+'&strategy=mobile&category=performance&category=accessibility&category=best-practices&category=seo&category=pwa', 'test__lighthouse')})();