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I should use a new catch-all title for this kind of stuff. So, here’s code news, and you should follow me on GitHub1.
If you have an Illustrator-based web design workflow, try pictorial which automatically monitors a directory of choice, and runs exported .PNGs (it’s regex-based, so maybe other PNGs or any PNG whose name matches a particular pattern) thru PNGCrush2, and shows a Growl notification after every iteration. I do this manually 100+ times a day, and not having to do it manually anymore certainly helps.
If you trace many Git forks locally, or if you do git clone a lot, clone can help by cloning to the “right” directory named with both the user’s screenname and the project name.
@cloudhead went to the future, found CSS 4 and gave us LESS. To write LESS efficiently you need syntax coloring. My fork of LESS Syntax Mode provides many fixes. Have a look into it if you use Coda or SubEthaEdit.
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Because “follow me on Twitter” is kind of cliché and talk is cheap. However, I do keep a for-links account. ↩
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I will not go into details nor tread too deep here, but this is intended for device-color-dependent UI snippets only. Since web browsers took flight before most of the hackers were aware of color management (figuratively speaking) our web looks very snobby and uncalibrated. sRGB, a lazybones standard which assumes standards by assuming nothing, is the color standard of the modern web. ↩