1. Parochialism

    Parochialism

    Don’t do this:

    https://twitter.com/AndrewBerkshire/status/344972991404310528

    At best, it says, “I’ve been drinking”. At worst, it just looks stupid. Rene Rancourt is a thing— if you’re from New England, he’s perfect. If you’re not, I guess he’s annoying. Regardless, there …

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  2. CSS: min-width vs. zoom

    CSS: min-width vs. zoom

    Ran into an interesting quirk today that I don’t see a lot of search results for: if you have a min-width set on an element but then set a zoom on an element other than 100%, the min-width (and, one presumes, the max-width) is scaled …

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  3. Ruining Fletch

    Ruining Fletch

    If you’ve never seen Fletch, stop here and go watch it. It’s a great comedy and one of the rare cases of a movie being better than the book. Assuming everyone reading past this point has seen it, you’re familiar with the plot: businessman Alan …

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  4. Django, Haystack & Elastic Search

    Django, Haystack & Elastic Search

    (Yes, I know it’s been a while.)

    Just a quick note in case this bites someone else. I’d file a bug with Haystack, but I have a feeling I’m doing something incredibly dumb. I have a convoluted set of filters for a search …

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  5. We Do This Every Day

    We Do This Every Day

    So it’s been a while. In my defense, I have a good excuse (of which more later). I am returning from blog hiatus to grouse about something: I subscribe to Hacker News in Twitter and I’m happy to do so as I regularly …

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