I took a full day Sass Workshop yesterday with Roy Tomeij. He walked us through every SCSS syntax and gave us some new features coming out in Sass 3.3. He shared his modular approach to CSS, which was quite intriguing. He also showed how simple it is to create CSS animation with Sass. I learned quite a bit yesterday and will need some time to digest everything. If you want to learn Sass, definitely check out Roy’s “Screw CSS” workshop.
Terry Gross interviews Elizabeth Smart on her abduction. It’s both disturbing and inspiring.
Kevin Whitehead reviews Ahmad Jamal’s latest album Saturday Morning. At 83, Jamal still got mad chops.
Jeffrey Zeldman talks with Debbie Millman about failure, success and happiness. Two people I have deep respect for on the same podcast. Can’t get any better than that.
Dạo này khá bận rộn với công việc, con cái và bài vỡ. Mấy tuần nay ngủ không đủ nên bệnh và khá nhức đầu nên không còn đủ tâm trạng cũng như thời gian để blog. Tuy vậy nhưng tôi vẫn thấy may mắn và hạnh phút. Công việc vẫn suôn sẻ. Gia đình vẫn ấm cúng. Chỉ là không đủ thời gian để làm hết mọi thứ mình muốn. Đến giờ tôi vẫn không thực hiện được cách ổn định giờ giấc và những thứ cần thiết và không cần thiết. Có lẻ thêm hai năm nữa khi Cu Đán lớn lên một chúc thì sẽ đỡ hơn. Bây giờ Cu Đạo đã tự làm được khá nhiều việc nên cũng đỡ phần nào. Thôi thì tới đâu hay đến đó. Bây giờ tan sở đi rước hai thằng nhóc về tắm rữa cho tụi nó rồi đi học tối nay. Mông rằng ông thầy sẽ hài lòng về những thiết kế đã bỏ hết mấy đêm dài tạo ra.
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I’ll be attending Sass Workshop on Tuesday, October 15, 2013 in Reston, VA. Even though I have been working with Sass quite a bit, I am looking into diving deeper into advanced techniques and Compass. If you’re planning on going, but haven’t bought the ticket, you can use this web address for $25 off.
To prove how important diacritics are in Vietnamese writing, here’s a conversation I had on Facebook that started out with a haircut, but could mean totally something else depending on how dirty your mind is:
John Smith Ban thich cat ngan hay cat dai?
Donny Truong Writing Vietnamese without “dấu” is quite dangerous.
John Smith And sometimes so confusing that it makes people ask you over and over for clarification. You answer and answer but they keep asking, asking. Cu hoi, cu hoi, cu hoi hoai! Until you get upset and want to chui lon!
Donny Truong Du roi, du roi. Dung chui lon nua.
Today, I am informing the George Washington University community that Doug Guthrie is no longer serving as the Dean of the School of Business. Fundamental differences about financial and operational performance were significant enough to warrant a change in leadership.
Damn!
I just started reading Butterick’s Practical Typography and really digging it. I am half way through Frank Chimero’s The Shape of Design and liking it. Scott Chacon’s is Pro Git is highly recommended to me from a former colleague and I’ll get to it eventually. You should read them too because they’re all free. Do support the writers though.
Neuroscientist Penelope Lewis talks to Terry Gross about how sleep affects memory from her new book The Secret World of Sleep: The Surprising Science of the Mind at Rest. Also worth listening is TED talk from circadian neuroscientist Russell Foster in which he shares three popular theories about why we sleep.
Eric Meyer shares the “77 Hours” that led up to the diagnose of the tumor in his five-year old daughter’s brain. It’s heart-wrecking to hear something like this happens to a little girl. I hope she’ll make a speedy recovery.