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“Everyone farts. And now your web pages can too.”

A nice review of our ID Photoprint app by Dr. Irene Levine at her More Time To Travel blog. (We note that the anonymous Akmal is not her husband.)

We’re excited to announce our new app for teachers, Teacher;s Pet. It’s a contextual to-do list and reminders app, carefully designed to help teachers do their jobs more effectively.

It’s just US$2.99 on the App Store — if you’re not a teacher, send the link to your teacher friends, or better yet, gift it to them :)

Step 1: install plugins. Step 2: forget to actually use plugins until half a year later. (A very useful list — we already use a couple of these.)

A nice little introduction to what’s new and important in CSS layout.

You know you want to click that button

Never heard of brogramming? Read this for a quick intro, then come back to this amazing piece by Neven Mrgan.

mrgan:

I guess you could say it all began when I took that Brogramming class in high school. To be specific, there’s one person you can blame: my Brogramming teacher. I was in need of a father-figure, and he was just that: a likable authority, a brominent brofessor.

Puns made high art, people. So good.

Because every so often, I think: Let’s use Compass spriting! It’ll save me time! Then I spend an hour looking up how the syntax works.

@import "compass/utilities/sprites";
$social-sprite-map: sprite-map('social/*.png');

@mixin active-social($name) {
  @include sprite-replace-text-with-dimensions($social-sprite-map, footer-#{$name});
  &:hover {
    @include sprite-replace-text-with-dimensions($social-sprite-map, footer-#{$name}-active);
  }
}

.footer-twitter {
  @include active-social(twitter);
}

.footer-facebook {
  @include active-social(facebook);
}

.footer-gplus {
  @include active-social(gplus);
}

How to respond when someone asks you to write a function to reverse a linked list.

Interesting:

ScriptKit is a touchable programming environment for building simple mobile prototypes on iPad using native iOS UI components and social media APIs, available via an intuitive drag and drop interface.

Free for trial with in-app purchases. Haven’t tried it yet.

Low-quality 2x images = the solution to retina graphics on the web?

“A smaller filesize AND a better quality on both screen types! This is impossible.”

Responsive design + cat. THIS STUFF IS IMPORTANT, PEOPLE

(Via Sacha Greif’s Sidebar.io, a daily collection of the 5 best design links.)