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I love SASS (Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets)

Posted: January 19th, 2016 | Tags: | Posted in: CSS, Tutorials

I’ve always enjoyed writing CSS, doing the calculations required to get the percentage widths for page elements is almost therapeutic in some ways, so the idea of using a preprocessor to develop CSS for websites was, for me, for a long time, something I couldn’t really get into. …
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Young Herring Gull

Humans Vs Herring Gulls

Posted: July 10th, 2015 | Posted in: General

I was out in Llandudno for the day and a sea gull swooped down, hit me on the head and flew off with the remains of my ice cream. They don’t need a PR expert, they need an extermination expert to rid us of this filthy and violent …
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SNP: Stronger for Scotland

#SNPbecause …

Posted: May 6th, 2015 | Posted in: General

In recent weeks it has become very clear to me that Labour, The Liberal Democrats and Conservatives have focussed themselves on condescension and an attempted delegitimisation of Scotland’s voice within the United Kingdom government, rather than forming a progressive pro-union voice, informing people of Scotland about how they …
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Fixing Gitbox in OS X Yosemite

Posted: April 21st, 2015 | Tags: | Posted in: OS X, Tutorials

A recent update seemed to have completely destroyed Gitbox in OS X Yosemite. This fix worked for me: Quit Gitbox. Delete ~/Library/Preferences/com.oleganza.gitbox.plist Run in Terminal: defaults delete com.oleganza.gitbox Run in Terminal: git config –global push.default matching Open Gitbox. You may also need to run “git config push.default matching” …
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