The below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @adamj_design ever

January 2013

@b_nelsen When will you know about your car?

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@juanggiraldo @stevenspriggs Actually, @b_nelsen are you around Monday after work? That might work better for me. If not that’s okay too.

via Twitter Web Client in reply to juanggiraldo

@juanggiraldo @b_nelsen @stevenspriggs I’m actually doing a workshop for Prof Techs on it on Tuesday, but maybe Fri after work? I’m flexible

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@dmolsen Pretty sure there’s of SVG going on in the new @abookapart website.

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I’ve added the Kuvva wallpaper changer to the list of default apps I install on OSX. Info: buff.ly/WOU7m3

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RT @mkruz: New side project → http://t.co/NPRgdvWR Collecting examples of great modern UI design (basically, turning my Pinterest board …

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@dustinmazon @stevenspriggs Wayfinder touch related: video about digital turntables w/ a touch interface: vimeo.com/13658956

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@b_nelsen @stevenspriggs Heck yeah! Invite @juanggiraldo. Ya’ll on the Sass program yet?

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@stevenspriggs @b_nelsen There’s gotta be an app for that. Dribble is pretty specific though. The WIndows 8 social app integrates sonetworks

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Constantly grabbing hex colors out of Photoshop? Hit “I” and right click > “Copy Hex Code”. buff.ly/WmGuwu

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.@jameslutley wrote, “My 2012 front-end
web development workflow”: buff.ly/SFe2mA Love seeing posts like this. Who’s got more?

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@kadavy Thanks for writing! We’ve all seen what happens when back-end devs do design. Glad we can point them somewhere.

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RT @sublimehq: Sublime Text 3 Beta is now available for registered users: http://t.co/ZVaNmfWG

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.@chriscoyier reflecting on one year with Sass: buff.ly/QsPOsw

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Love typespiration.com. It’s a really neat site that helps you choose badass web font typography.

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@MesuvaWebDev Got your email. Looks cool! Will try to play with it tonight/tomorrow and get back to you. Cheers!

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@rogerjohansson you could just write CSS, paste it into a .scss file, & do concatenation + minification. SCSS can be exactly the same as CSS

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@stevenspriggs @brad_frost Here’s the collection of tips I’ve gathered for Sublime Text 2: tweets.ajdwv.com/?s=sublime

via Twitter for Android in reply to stevenspriggs

CSS classes like “grid_x” and “umpteen columns” are the tables of the modern web design era.

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“Design for Hackers” is a book to help programmers make cool stuff look not shitey: buff.ly/10N24ZT (Free for WVU peeps via library)

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chriscoyier Did you know you could apply transparency to hex codes in ?

rgba(, 0.3);

I friggin didn’t.

via Twitter for Mac (retweeted on 11:54 PM, Jan 27th, 2013 via Twitter Web Client)

@rogerjohansson Definitely CodeKit w/ Sass. Once you try it you’ll wonder what you were doing before: incident57.com/codekit/

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A really top notch slidecast from @finteractive on Responsive Web Design: Introduction & Workflow, buff.ly/10Nq6nx

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@MesuvaWebDev LMK if you make a package. You could probably make some $ in the marketplace. I’d be happy to help test.

via Twitter Web Client in reply to MesuvaWebDev

@MesuvaWebDev Ya, Tweetcrete uses TOAuth, but looks like v1. I submitted a support request, have not heard back. Not sure if it’ll go 2 v1.1

via Twitter Web Client in reply to MesuvaWebDev

@MesuvaWebDev Have you thought about how you’ll pull in tweets w/ C5 after March 5th? goo.gl/wXY1X v1 API will cease to exist.

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I took a quick glance at Adobe Brackets, but some things (like native live reload) mentioned in this vid look cool: buff.ly/10N2DD1

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discuss.io is a sweet looking design feedback, collaboration, & review tool for your freelance projects. + it’s free!

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stevenspriggs ProfoundGrid is pretty slick. profoundgrid.com SASS based grid system, inspired from semantic.gs

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 3:41 PM, Jan 25th, 2013 via Twitter Web Client)

Here’s a pretty flexible port of the Skeleton Grid to SCSS: buff.ly/10GxpNN (although, the CSS it outputs is epic due to all the MQ’s)

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@MissSevans No worries! Check out his follow up post too.

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Here’s some great visual tweaks to Sublime Text 2: buff.ly/VNuOjD Especially like the “highlight line” & bold folders options.

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Learning that you have to refresh the page before seeing the magic of em based media queries after zooming in w/ Chrome buff.ly/W7iiMn

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The team has put together a page with a bunch of C5 open source projects & resources: buff.ly/Wf07X9 Have any to add?

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“Mobile first turns you into a happy fat-cat. Desktop first means you’re hitting the gym and getting your ass kicked”: buff.ly/10tcFOR

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RT @jonikorpi: ‘“I have read and agree to the Terms” is the biggest lie on the web. We aim to fix that.’ http://t.co/nIVigFjY

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RT @aembler: Anyone interested in #concrete5 5.6.1 performance would do well to check out this weekend article of mine: http://t.co/gsJdntWk

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Flowdock is a web & OSX app that helps teams collaborate with team email & chat, among other features: buff.ly/MkuTtC

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Wow, been looking for this for a while. “Add a keyboard shortcut to lock your screen in OSX: buff.ly/XkMh2a

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@elektronaut Ah, read up a bit more about those API changes. Yikes! Will research. Thanks for making LiveTwitter though, very nice plugin.

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@ahaloszka @dcaryll I knew it but thought you heads would explode. Some people didn’t even feel strong with basic CSS. But now you know!!

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If you pull in tweets to a site via JS/jQuery, here’s some cases of how to authenticate w/ Twitter w/ their v1.1 API: buff.ly/zsZVyL

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Sad to hear jQ LiveTwitter is being retired due to *huge, sweeping, giant-ass* changes in the Twitter API this March: goo.gl/wXY1X

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@elektronaut Inge, any suggestions for alternate JS only solutions to LiveTwitter that actually work? Looking to ignore @ replies. Cheers!

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Just enabled two step verification via Google Authenticator for stuff. Dead simple w/ “Remember this computer”. Info: buff.ly/XcPVuU

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Allegedly 1 in 4 people bounce cause CAPTCHA’s suck. You can replace CAPTCHA’s with games: buff.ly/KMXszz (::begin ADD jokes now::)

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Generating sprites with Compass is pretty easy. Heres a 5 minute video-rundown: buff.ly/X9M4Pe + Written rundown: goo.gl/ryv9W

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Tincr live reloads your page + sends changes via Chrome Dev Tools back to your editor: buff.ly/Ry8zis cc/ @b_nelsen

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dmolsen looking forward to @adamj_design’s workshop on codekit, sass, & compass tomorrow. if you’re a WVU designer/dev make sure to come out.

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 9:14 AM, Jan 15th, 2013 via Twitter for Android)

Talking about CodeKit: “Essentially, the goal is to make anyone who’s forced to build a website without CodeKit… cry.” @nettutstuts

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@feather Hah, that didn’t take long! You definitely have dibs.

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A great post on why sliders suck: buff.ly/VDT5eY

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I wrote a new blog post on why developing mobile first is like gaining weight (totally the easier option!): buff.ly/10tcFOR

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This is a pretty useful guide to some Windows 8 niceties: buff.ly/RQT6YA I can say that this OS is growing on me. Took a day or two.

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Some massive, sweeping changes coming to . Lots of good planning happening. Read up on the plan for v5.7+: buff.ly/WM4OUm

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Horizontal scrollbars are one of the annoying pains of RWD. That said, mobile first means you only get fatter. Start small —> get fat. Win.

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#Concrete5 v5.6.1 Beta is out. Release notes: http://t.co/PvsWpPxO Lots of improvements around the cache & site speed. Help squash some bugs

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vanaqua.org is an exceptionally nice site. On top of that, it’s built with .

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thewordboner Only an idiot trips on what’s behind him.

via Facebook (retweeted on 1:47 PM, Jan 11th, 2013 via Twitter Web Client)

Hah, @DesignJargonBS is some great stuff: buff.ly/UPHmeT …And we call ourselves communicators, sheesh!

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nicewebtype Responsive design, type history, tips, tools, and more. Favorites. nicewebtype.com/x/3m

via Tweetbot for iOS (retweeted on 1:19 AM, Jan 11th, 2013 via Twitter Web Client)

RT @simplebits: After much evangelizing @frogandcode finally got me on the Sass train. Now I’m working on a pink book for @abookapart! …

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@brad_frost I too had a terrible experience with PNC. @AllyBank kills it though. Happy trails.

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Concrete5 core team member “mkly” wrote a how-to article about overriding the core for v5.6+: buff.ly/VPdkTQ

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It’s neat to actually hold & try the laptop/tablet hybrids. You get the feel of a laptop & the tablet is just a bonus. buff.ly/WwUa3A

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Finally installed Windows 8 on my laptop last night. Steeeep learning curve. Jury is still out for me. Others’ insight: http://t.co/HD8fAeCZ

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Remember the 960 grid? Ha! Yeah, those were the days…

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.@necolas on writing CSS alongside multiple people: buff.ly/LHksfY, & how to write quality issues on @github: buff.ly/119r3Lk

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The @h5bp has just updated their media query for high-res assets. It’s good and different: buff.ly/Wq3ciQ

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Are red buttons bad? Turns out color contrast matters more than color choice when making buttons or other action items: goo.gl/UgdIr

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Made a small update to my blog post about @sublimehq with some new packages I’ve discovered: buff.ly/TAfrwB

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standardistas Great typographic primer covering the fundamentals to improve readability on the web: j.mp/Tw0f3q

via Buffer (retweeted on 2:50 PM, Jan 3rd, 2013 via Twitter Web Client)

@USCellular Any time frame on when the Electrify M will get Jelly Bean? Cheers!

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RT @rogerjohansson: I am so !‚¬%¢”% sick of sites that disable user zooming. Publish your stuff on paper if you can’t stand people incre …

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