“They’re made up. Invented. Plucked from the imagination of someone in the Telegraph’s London HQ.”
Martin Moore Blog: The Case of the Missing Journalists

Using git stash branch

When using Git I sometimes end up with a bunch of changes that would really be better off in a feature branch. Here’s a quick way to take those changes in your working copy and start a feature branch quickly:

git stash
git stash branch my_branch_title

From the docs on git stash branch:

Creates and checks out a new branch named starting from the commit at which the was originally created, applies the changes recorded in to the new working tree and index, then drops the if that completes successfully. When no is given, applies the latest one.

Awesome.

Internet Explorer’s defects

Internet explorer has many faults, especially the versions 6 and below. As web developers we want to give our users the best possible experience, so we come up with ways to hide these faults. By doing this we are teaching internet users that Internet Explorer is a fine web browser, and that websites built with web standards that look odd are not properly built. This is turning things on their head, me thinks.

How can we turn a web culture that says: “this website looks odd, what a lazy developer,” into “this website looks odd, I really should get a better browser”? How to raise awareness about what a browser is, what browser people use and why they use it?

“An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first one orders a beer. The second orders half a beer. The third, a quarter of a beer. The bartender says “You’re all idiots”, and pours two beers.”
Randgruppenhumor cont’d (via)

Recipe: The Best French Onion Soup (…ever!)

Chicken Police? (via oolaliz)

via dilbert.com

via dilbert.com

“If you were to describe the document to someone over the phone, would you mention the image or its content? If you would, the image probably needs an alternative text. If not, it should probably have an empty alt attribute.”
Writing good alt text | 456 Berea Street

Internets down, no more work.

stupid spaghetti code.