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jareware / SCSS.md
Last active January 4, 2026 07:22
Advanced SCSS, or, 16 cool things you may not have known your stylesheets could do

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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

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maccman / app.py
Created August 8, 2012 23:30
Stripe Flask Example
import os
from flask import Flask, render_template, request
import stripe
stripe_keys = {
'secret_key': os.environ['SECRET_KEY'],
'publishable_key': os.environ['PUBLISHABLE_KEY']
}
stripe.api_key = stripe_keys['secret_key']