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When I went on a bachelor party last year we used GroupMe for all the shenanigans (pictures, scheduling, keeping in touch while out boozing, etc.) and a few months later it got payments added. If they could somehow use Venmo and drop the fee, it would be unbelievably awesome.

http://gizmodo.com/5989263/groupme-now-lets-you-split-the-bi...

As much as I loved wowing my corporate friends with the "unlimited vacation" perk of my previous job, I always struggled because there was always work to be done so I always felt some sort of pressure because using my vacation meant I was inherently saying "yeah, I know there's still work but you guys can handle it, I'm going to play." I get that this isn't a perfect mindset since that's part of being on a team and you have to expect people to share responsibility but that's how I felt and in talking to others and reading about unlimited vacation policies, I don't think I'm alone.

When I left my first job that had a generous but still limited vacation policy, I got a nice sized check paying me back for my unused vacation. I never felt like I was restricted from taking vacation and I definitely liked the money that actually ended up paying for the week off I took between jobs.

Well, that was easy. Went ahead and took our long-standing WIP wiki which was already markdown and threw it in here. We've been meaning to do something like this for a while, you just did it.

Agreed with the point about security. We have a public part we want to make into a general KB but also a private part for internal. If anyone comes up with something, I'd love to see it.

Lastly, because what comment wouldn't be complete without some sort of "criticism" on someone else's awesome, hard work, what prompted the decision to use the /* */ commenting for page-specific config? In my experience (maybe this is just because I've used jekyll too much) it seems that Yaml frontmatter is pretty typical for .md file config.

The line moves on every play. Paint would be just a bit cumbersome :)

All he's doing is smartly parsing the results of Twitter searches. This isn't really groundbreaking, it just requires some legwork.

I'm sitting at home with no commute, listening to music out of my computer speakers, in a house that's heated to my liking and I'm wearing sweatpants. For lunch I'll be baking a hot, fresh meal. At some point this afternoon I'll probably take a short nap to refresh myself.

I'm pretty aware of it.

Mashable writer with a public key? I think you are confusing them with a real news organization, not the site whose headlines currently include: "11 Funky Computer Mice That Really Click" and "25 Pieces of Food Jewelry Cute Enough to Eat"

Pretty cool but I can't see having another chat client on top of Hipchat. Wish there was some way to bake this into Hipchat since the features look awesome. Great work!

Yep- a search on npmjs shows not quite a dozen tasks for Broccoli while Grunt has hundreds of results. Not that quantity necessarily == quality but when it comes to a task runner, I need to, you know, run tasks.

Definitely awesome that people are trying to optimize in the devops space but just not sure I could be convinced to switch to something that isn't at least somewhat mature.

> A great manager (who may also play a part as an individual contributor) can channel & amplify an organization's creativity and innovation. S/he will also ensure there is an alignment b/w the organization's high level strategies and the individual contributions being made.

Yep, this. I work in a place that after a merger got rid of the creative director and replaced it with an "everyone is senior" approach. While it's nice on paper, we have no accountability, no one to set or drive standards, and no review process other than client sign-off. I think we would benefit greatly from a Director or VP or some sort of management that could authoritatively say "this is what we're doing and this is how we're doing it".

Thanks for this post. Was never really into coffee until I moved into a workspace that valued good coffee over Starbucks and K-cups (we drank MADCAP: http://madcapcoffee.com/).

I've been toying with the idea of getting my own setup but wasn't sure where to start. This definitely clarified that it's pretty expensive to get started so I may just stick with the artisan coffee shops in town.

The few issues I've run into are that I can't use Compass and I can't have Source Maps (yet).

Instead of Compass, I've switched to using Bourbon (bourbon.io) but may consider just using Auto Prefixer in future dev efforts.

Source maps I can live without since I haven't gotten used to them. I know it's in the works or at least being thought about: https://github.com/hcatlin/libsass/issues/122.

Nice! I'll be very opinionated here but thanks for using Swig instead of something more abstracted like Jade. Keeping it as close to HTML as possible definitely speeds up development for me.

I'm not usually one for hackathons but definitely do like to spin up mini app ideas and just tinker. I'll give it a shot!

Source?

A friend in college had one of the new beetles and I always found this hilarious since her aspiration was to be an elementary school teacher. Really strange stuff though.

github pages + jekyll should work nicely for you

Just for the sake of clarification, I don't think "inlining" is what you're looking for. Using `margin: 0 auto;` is shorthand, not inline. Inline would be `<div style="margin: 0 auto;"></div>`. Definitely don't want that :)

The folks at Development Seed are doing really awesome work between Prose and MapBox and it's great to see them get some recognition for it.

Also a great plug for Jekyll in general. While there can certainly be more worrisome factors than cost for a site, site performance should be one of the most important issues when launching. By completely getting rid of a backing database, page lookup times can be reduced dramatically. As Prose continues to mature, it's getting more and more flexible by the day. Just last week they implemented an extensible "tagging" feature for posts: https://github.com/prose/prose/issues/464.

In case you haven't noticed, I'm a fan. Kudos to dev seed and big props to the White House team for the willingness to move away from Drupal.

My local (Washington DC) protest has 312 people "going" according to Facebook. With any given Facebook event, I've found there's usually a huge dropoff between those who have RSVP'd and who shows up.

I think the spirit of this is great but "mass protest" might be a bit of a misnomer.

I love seeing the sky go from dark to light. Nice way to end a night of productivity.

It doesn't really go both ways. It should be expected that Chrome would be playing catchup since it launched six years after Firefox launched.

Now, as the author pointed out, Firefox seems to be unable to keep up in some key areas.

If I'm just showing off work to clients and pushing things to a staging/dev server, a lot of the time I'll use grunt-rsync or grunt-sftp to push everything up at the end of my `$ grunt produce` task. For site deployments, I prefer Capistrano since it's dead simple.

I'm going to need a good bit more than a form on an otherwise empty page to convince me that this is anywhere near secure.

I'd implore you to take a look at a gallery of sites built with bootstrap: http://builtwithbootstrap.com.

I think you'll be pleasantly surprised to find that not all sites built with Bootstrap follow the default mold of a thin 100%-width black navigation bar across the top with white background. Sure, there are lots that have that layout, but as developers learn more about Bootstrap, the sites that use it as their underlying framework are definitely diversifying.

Will the burrito bomber suffice? http://www.darwinaerospace.com/burritobomber

Ah, my misunderstanding then!

While I agree with the thinking here, simply learning Photoshop and CSS doesn't make you a designer and learning programming doesn't make you a programmer. I'm a front-end dev who's more than competent in Photoshop and can write really modular, daresay good CSS but if I had to decide between using a designer or making my own design, nine times out of ten, I'm going to use someone who is, by trade, a designer and has an eye for crafting a beautiful UI, choosing colors, and for laying out type.

I'm slowly but surely getting better at design things but I choose to focus my energy on development rather than prettifying pixels (I say that with absolutely no intent of malice).

I agree that broadening my skills to include design would be helpful. I'd also be really great off if I learned how to treat my own ailments and fix my own car. I can't do it all though, so when I have the need, I partner with designers. I look through portfolios, gauge talent and ability, and hope for the best.

Author makes some points that are fine, I guess. A dev needs to carefully consider his audience and his fellow developers. If I can use jQuery and know that I'm not going to have cross-browser DOM API issues, then let me have it. Because the method simply doesn't work in older browsers (<IE8 http://caniuse.com/#search=queryselectorall) It's not entirely fair to say that `$(".my-class li:first-child")` is equal to `document.querySelectorAll(".my-class li:first-child")` or that `$('.my-class')` is equivalent to `document.getElementsByClassName('my-class')` (doesn't work in <IE9 http://caniuse.com/#search=getelementsbyclassname).

If you're building games or working with a team who does, I'm going to guess you're working with fairly edge functionality in browsers where javascript support is great. If you're building sites for clients who are still (sigh) using IE7 internally, you just can't get away with something quite so simple.

As another commenter mentioned: "Even the most avid follower of JS updates can't compete with a team of the standard jQuery draws upon. When a new method gets rolled in to the core of jQuery, something that speeds up selectors for example, your code improves without you doing any work."

This is the same reason I use a library for preprocessing my CSS. I'd rather update a gem and trust a team whose focus is processing CSS than try to rely on myself for keeping up to date with the pace of the CSS WG and browser vendors.

Also, for anyone wanting to dig around the jQuery source, James Padolsey made a great tool for it. I know I was pretty amazed to find out just how much is going on under the hood. http://james.padolsey.com/jquery/#v=git&fn=

Just to add to the list: https://github.com/necolas/emitter.js

:)

"The true problem is that when crafting an email 95% of the time is spent getting the design just right and only 5% is spent on the subject and content."

I'm curious what shop you are thinking of that has this kind of time breakdown? I know that in my previous agency (political/non-profit/corporate consulting), the team responsible for emails spent hours and hours working on crafting perfect subject lines and meaningful content. The subject and the content drove the design.