Mike Stecker mikestecker

Pagination 101

Article by Faruk Ateş, [originally on KuraFire.net][original] which is currently down

One of the most commonly overlooked and under-refined elements of a website is its pagination controls. In many cases, these are treated as an afterthought. I rarely come across a website that has decent pagination, and it always makes me wonder why so few manage to get it right. After all, I'd say that pagination is pretty easy to get right. Alas, that doesn't seem the case, so after encouragement from Chris Messina on Flickr I decided to write my Pagination 101, hopefully it'll give you some clues as to what makes good pagination.

Before going into analyzing good and bad pagination, I want to explain just what I consider to be pagination: Pagination is any kind of control system that lets the user browse through pages of search results, archives, or any other kind of continued content. Search results are the o

Getting Started with NPM (as a developer)

As easy as 1, 2, 3!

Updated:

Aug, 08, 2022 update config docs for npm 8+
Jul 27, 2021 add private scopes
Jul 22, 2021 add dist tags
Jun 20, 2021 update for --access=public
Sep 07, 2020 update docs for npm version

OS X Preferences

most of these require logout/restart to take effect

# Enable character repeat on keydown
defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

# Set a shorter Delay until key repeat

ExpressionEngine .htaccess/Apache conf

Please use these at your own risk. I cannot be responsible for having no idea what I am doing and breaking your server.

This is a collection of Apache configuration settings that I use in my ExpressionEngine projects. Since I have always been a big fan of the HTML5 Boilerplate I took inspiration from their .htaccess file and tweaked my configuration with other settings I have used over the years.

This gist contains:

_EXTENDED.htaccess This is a general .htaccess file I rename and edit as needed for each site. Note: When I host a site on my prad/stage/dev servers I move most or all of these rules into the vhost.conf file
_SAMPLE.httpd.conf I use Ubuntu on my development, staging, and production servers so this is specific to Apache 2 on my setup. Essentially this file extends the apache2.conf (in my setup).

Stylus Best Practices

Introduction

This is a curated set of conventions and best practices for Stylus, an expressive, dynamic, robust and advanced CSS preprocessor. Frustrated with there not being a set of conventions set in place (that could be easily found), I set forth to find out on my own.

NOTE: the list has moved to https://github.com/sketchplugins/plugin-directory

Sketch Plugins

A list of Sketch plugins hosted at GitHub, in no particular order.

brandonbeecroft/Lorem-Ipsum-Plugin-for-Sketch This is a plugin for quickly creating Lorem Ipsum text in Sketch
sebj/Sketch Templates and Plugins for Sketch by Bohemian Coding
FredericJacobs/crop_Artboard A script to export the Sketch App artboards to the clipboard
almonk/SketchGit A simple Git client built right into Sketch.

	<!doctype html>

	<!-- http://taylor.fausak.me/2015/01/27/ios-8-web-apps/ -->

	<html>
	<head>
	<title>iOS 8 web app</title>

	<!-- CONFIGURATION -->

	<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
	#The following line is enough for .js and .css
	AddOutputFilter DEFLATE js css
	AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain text/xml application/xhtml+xml text/css application/xml application/rss+xml application/atom_xml application/x-javascript application/x-httpd-php application/x-httpd-fastphp text/html

	#The following lines are to avoid bugs with some browsers
	BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
	BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
	BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
	</IfModule>

	set :deploy_to, "/var/www/default"
	set :branch, 'master'

	#Remote DB info
	set :dbuser, ""
	set :dbname, ""
	set :dbhost, ""
	set :dbpass, ""

	server {
	listen 80;

	root /var/www/craft.dev/public;
	index index.php index.html index.htm;

	server_name craft.dev;

	location / {
	try_files $uri $uri/ @rewrites;