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  • Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists, S01E02

    Mona goes back to her PLL rabbit hole, and Alli tries to figure out who she really is—a newly mature and responsible mom, or, um, a wildly reckless decision-maker?


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  • Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists, S01E01

    The Pretty Little Grown Men podcast makes a triumphant return to recap Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists and talk about the new show’s themes of privilege, pressure, and (ahem) murder.


  • A Flexbox layout with negative margins to create grid-style gaps
  • Flexbox gutters and negative margins, mostly solved

    A riskier hack than it looks, but with a few extra steps, we can make (almost) perfect grid-style gutters for Flexbox.


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  • Loading just-in-time CSS in the Body with WordPress

    Getting into progressive CSS rendering with WordPress: easier than you’re expecting.


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  • Gmail is flagging non-HTTPS links in email for spam

    Make sure your emails aren’t landing in spam folders by updating your signature links.


  • I’m speaking at WordCamp Portland and WordCamp Seattle 2018

    Giving my performance talk, How to Clean Up the WordPress Database.


  • Styling WordPress categories

    How to better style and customize WordPress categories and tags in theme templates.


  • Add GitHub-style syntax highlighting to your website with Ulysses 13 and CSS

    Color-code your code examples without a plugin or JavaScript library, thanks to Ulysses 13’s amazing new code blocks.


  • Modular Scale Typography with CSS Variables and Sass


  • Los Angeles indie duo Chapman & Brocker
  • First Look: Chapman & Brocker – “Dance Of The Crazy Man”

    Chapman & Brocker’s 2008 debut is a theatrical, surreal pop swirl that evokes the Beach Boys’ existential longing.


  • CSS Grid: Understanding grid-gap and fr vs. auto units

    Working through CSS Grid’s new fractional unit, making it play nice with auto, and why it’s time to use grid-gap for all your margins.


  • How I tracked WordPress spam links to their plugin malware

    Tracking down a spam function in a rogue version of the Logos Showcase plugin.


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