Bruce Bentley brucebentley

Advanced SCSS

Or, 16 cool things you may not have known your stylesheets could do. I'd rather have kept it to a nice round number like 10, but they just kept coming. Sorry.

I've been using SCSS/SASS for most of my styling work since 2009, and I'm a huge fan of Compass (by the great @chriseppstein). It really helped many of us through the darkest cross-browser crap. Even though browsers are increasingly playing nice with CSS, another problem has become very topical: managing the complexity in stylesheets as our in-browser apps get larger and larger. SCSS is an indispensable tool for dealing with this.

This isn't an introduction to the language by a long shot; many things probably won't make sense unless you have some SCSS under your belt already. That said, if you're not yet comfy with the basics, check out the aweso

	echo 'export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc
	. ~/.bashrc
	mkdir ~/local
	mkdir ~/node-latest-install
	cd ~/node-latest-install
	curl http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz \| tar xz --strip-components=1
	./configure --prefix=~/local
	make install # ok, fine, this step probably takes more than 30 seconds...
	curl https://www.npmjs.org/install.sh \| sh

	@echo off
	SET DIR=%~dp0%
	@PowerShell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy unrestricted -Command "& '%DIR%setup.ps1' %*"
	pause

	# http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/11
	---
	gem: --no-ri --no-rdoc
	benchmark: false
	verbose: true
	update_sources: true
	sources:
	- http://gems.rubyforge.org/
	- http://rubygems.org/
	backtrace: true

	/*--- waitForKeyElements(): A utility function, for Greasemonkey scripts,
	that detects and handles AJAXed content.

	Usage example:

	waitForKeyElements (
	"div.comments"
	, commentCallbackFunction
	);

	#!/bin/sh

	###
	# SOME COMMANDS WILL NOT WORK ON macOS (Sierra or newer)
	# For Sierra or newer, see https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.macos
	###

	# Alot of these configs have been taken from the various places
	# on the web, most from here
	# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/5b3c8418ed42d93af2e647dc9d122f25cc034871/.osx

	$scriptDir = $(Split-Path -parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition)

	function Install-NeededFor {
	param(
	[string] $packageName = ''
	,[bool] $defaultAnswer = $true
	)
	if ($packageName -eq '') {return $false}

	$yes = '6'

	# commandline to initialize and download submodules
	git submodule init
	git submodule update

	# commandline command to add commit to and close issue
	# use any of these in your commit message:
	# - fixes #xxx
	# - fixed #xxx
	# - fix #xxx
	# - closes #xxx

	# Reset
	Color_Off='\e[0m' # Text Reset

	# Regular Colors
	Black='\e[0;30m' # Black
	Red='\e[0;31m' # Red
	Green='\e[0;32m' # Green
	Yellow='\e[0;33m' # Yellow
	Blue='\e[0;34m' # Blue
	Purple='\e[0;35m' # Purple