I'm Matty, a front-end developer from Melbourne, Australia. I build stuff for the internet whilst listening to pop-punk or chiptunes. I have a mohawk (incase you didn't notice) and ride one of those tiny skateboard things.
It took over a year and a lot of help from some close friends to realise that my job was making me unhappy.
After some behind-the-scenes drama, syntax highlighting is finnaly running!
Javascript (read: jQuery) was something I struggled with in my early days as it can be quite intimidating at times. Here are some of the techniques I have picked up over the years.
After almost three years of writing CSS at a professional level I have realised something. Its really hard…
A new design came with some new (to me) ways to build. This time focusing on the tech behind the site.
Brace yourself, its another year in review
post. A look back at the emotional roller-coaster that was 2013. Enjoy!
There are a lot of misconceptions about making websites accessible, but with some simple thinking you can easily make your site more accessible.
Adding some customisation and flexibility to my sidebar for a better user experience.
An interesting look through my jekyll workflow of creating a new entry ala Thug Kitchen
For this redesign, I opted with a much more modern approach to design with the majority of it being done in the browser.
I hear this social media
thing is going to take off…
Three little words that are hard to say: I am done
. With them they bring pain, humiliation and the certainty that the project will instantly return with 20 more bugs to address.
I don’t always use lorem ipsum
, but when I do it’s futurama quotes.
During the design of the site, I wanted to focus two main things: typography and color.
Recently I have been reading a lot about working on large projects and the many ways of developing so that the CSS is doing more for you. To paraphrase the internet the less CSS you write, the less you need to debug
. I would like to share an approach that I use in my Sass.
Having worked on two rather big WCAG 2.0 sites in the last year, by far the hardest thing was figuring out how to get my icons showing up in high contrast mode. My go-to technique would have been using Font Awesome, but I didn’t have enough understanding of its use in accessibility to use it site-wide for a project this size. We went with ye olde’ image-based sprites for them, but with the use of Sass I have a new technique.
It's not you Octopress, it's me.
My site is now running on Jekyll after the decision to leave WordPress and databases behind. My goal was to use the awesome Octopress but alas, I failed. I took it down a notch and stuck with the engine Octopress runs off – Jekyll.
I have made the move to Git, no surprise there. I have read a lot in the past few months about a “mature” web development work flow with everyone running sites locally, using version control and how bad it was “white screening” a live site. I had already made the switch (and never looked back) to pre-processing my CSS, but GitHub, the command-line (yeh… I’m on windows) and syncing databases where stopping me from going local.
A little challenge of creating iOS Message App using only CSS appeared on CSS tricks. Aww yiss.
I'm Matty, a front-end developer from Melbourne, Australia. I build stuff for the internet whilst listening to pop-punk or chiptunes. I have a mohawk (incase you didn't notice) and ride one of those tiny skateboard things.