Chris Coyier:

When I struck off on my own, I knew I wanted to make a go at making CSS-Tricks more of a full time gig. Right away, redesigning the site toward that goal seemed like a good idea. But why do that hidden away in my room? I love the idea of working in public and that’s exactly the kind of work CSS-Tricks is made from. So I thought I’d turn on my microphone and screencast the whole process. Then I’d make those videos available to purchase or subscribe to. To validate it was a good idea, I put up a Kickstarter.

It went pretty well :)

So there it is, the newly redesigned CSS-Tricks.com. I honestly have to say that it’s not necessarily my style of design, but that’s okay. It shows what is possible with CSS and has a lot of little details and things to discover. So it’s truly a CSS-Trick. Great work Chris!
Because I backed his Kickstarter project I have access to „the Lodge“, which means I can watch how Chris build this whole site. He recorded over 150 screencasts, which is pretty awesome. I already watch the first five and am looking forward to the ones with cool Front End stuff.

Watching these screencasts makes me wanting to do screencasts myself again. But this time about coding instead of photography. Maybe I’ll try it some time in the future.

Today at half past seven on my way to work.

If you can live without the cool Hybrid Viewfinder of the X100 and X-Pro 1, this could be your next mirrorless camera. Looks great, is smaller than the X-Pro 1, but has the same sensor size. And you can get it in all black.

I, for one will keep the X100 or maybe upgrade to an X200 when it’s coming out.

Fujifilm really has build up an incredible lineup with the X10, X100, X-Pro 1 and now X-E1.

After using GitHub for QUOTE.fm for some weeks now and loving it, I decided it’s time to become more active publicly. So I just published my first repository. It’s really really small, more precisely it’s just one file. But I think it’s important to just start something. My first repo is a collection of SCSS Mixins I regularly use. I plan to always update the list when I need a new one in a project I work on.

Maybe you can benefit from this list and take what you need from it or you just import the whole file since by generating the final CSS the Mixins which aren’t used will be ignored anyway.

So, hello fellow GitHubbers!

Near Kollmar, August 18th 2012.

Tab Atkins:

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS CSS4. There has never been a CSS4. There will never be a CSS4. CSS4 is not a thing that exists.
The term „CSS3“ refers to everything published after CSS 2.1.

Read that and spread the word.

My whole life it was much easier for me to wake up early than to stay up really late. As a school kid that has proven rather useful. But I always thought that it was some kind of weird. All my friends were up till late at night and hated the mornings. Ever slept at a friends house and woke up hours before the other did? Probably not, but I did. Boooooring.

At weekends I often got up early on a sunday to do my homework. I just was more productive then and it felt great to have breakfast with my family and seeing the whole day before me without anything I had to do because I already did all my work in the early morning.

As I discovered photography I was really into landscape photography, so I often got up early in the morning to photograph the sunrise or get photos of fog and dew. I really enjoyed being out there in the nature all alone.

Wherever you go in the early morning, it’s most likely that it’s much quieter than a few hours later. I always liked that.
As I was a kid we almost always did camping holidays with a caravan. Getting up early and riding my bike around the campground was great.

The last few years I always tried to fight getting up early and going to bed not that late. I thought it was just wrong, but it turns out I was just wrong. Today I woke up at 6:30 and just went for a run. It felt great. I even did it without music so I could just enjoy the silence and think about a few things. And I was rewarded with a beautiful sunrise.

I now realize that there is no point in fighting my circadian rhythm. I don’t have to be like most people, I can just be myself and make the most of it.

I’m an early bird and that’s great.

Enter the Read & Trust Magazine. Rather than the weekly emails that you’ve been used to, the Read & Trust Magazine will now be a monthly collection of articles from five contributing members. The text is still the star, but the content will be delivered in a way that is better for everyone.

Sounds really promising. I think I’m in. The line up of writers is really great.

Every Front End Engineer should read and follow this Manifesto by Zach Leatherman.

In our third issue we talk to CSS-wizard and Internet nomad Chris Coyier, Australian bootstrap-entrepreneur Collis Ta’eed, ex-Google designer and Avocado co-founder Jenna Bilotta, creative visionary and Facebook designer Wilson Miner, Smashing co-founder und editor-in-chief Vitaly Friedman and Happy Cog’s Philly-based president Greg Hoy.

Just ordered my copy of the third issue of the amazing Offscreen Magazine by Kai Brach. Loved the first two issues and am really looking forward to the new one.