Reading Time: 5 minutesNo, this isn’t some scathing post about how Fox News Readers are the underbelly of society, secretly prefer briefs over boxers, or are members of the Illuminati. As I’ve said in other, extremely popular posts, I averaged about 40 or … Continue reading
Author: paceaux
JavaScript Keystroke Code Interpreter
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThere’s a few different web apps I’ve developed where I needed to use keyboard characters for shortcut keys or whatnot. I can never remember what the keystroke codes are, and I hate looking at great big charts. So I made … Continue reading
What a blog post about gun control taught me about guns (and Fox News)
Reading Time: 7 minutesOn a late Saturday night just a little over a full day after the Aurora shootings, I got fed up with friends and pundits telling me why we needed more gun restrictions or why someone with a gun would have … Continue reading
Yes, I’m a hypocrite: I ran my mouth on gun control
Reading Time: 7 minutesA few days ago, around midnight, I published a wildly popular article rant on gun control. By wildly popular, it’s had over a hundred unique pageviews since Saturday night (a record for anything I’ve written). I don’t average that many unique … Continue reading
Yes, you can shutup about Colorado and keep your opinions on gun control to yourself
Reading Time: 6 minutesI moved to Colorado about ten months ago.And though I am a native Texan, Colorado is my adoptive state. In my 31 years, 18 were in Texas and 12 were in Illinois, so that should tell you something. I love … Continue reading
The Myths of Modern Web Browsers, and the Real Problem with IE
Reading Time: 6 minutesIn a recent project that I’ve been working on I was able to reach a new level of frustration and aggravation with Internet Explorer. Any front-end developer with more than a week of experience could tell you horror stories about … Continue reading
Politics and Religion: An Evangelical Libertarian’s View on Gay Marriage
Reading Time: 7 minutesI don’t blog much about my faith and I’ve never really talked about politics before. I am a born-again evangelical — just about anyone who’s spent more than 20 minutes talking to me will figure that out. And though I enjoy … Continue reading
Clever CSS3 Tricks: Using the em in text-shadow and box-shadow
Reading Time: 3 minutesAny of my web development buddies have learned that I’m a huge fan of the em. Huge fan. We’d be Facebook friends, we’d go on vacation together, yadda yadda yadda. When you look at my online resume you’ll be hard-up … Continue reading
Looking for a few folks with HTML/CSS skills
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve developed an HTML5 application—details are not open for disclosure just yet. It’s working in two browsers, so now I’ve begun testing it personally. So now I’m looking for a few folks who have intermediate to advanced HTML and CSS … Continue reading
CSS Sorcery: Performing Magic with the Attribute Selector
Reading Time: 4 minutesLast week I was tackling a CSS problem when I suddenly stumbled into the magical world of the attribute selector. It’s not that I didn’t know about it, it’s that I didn’t know how powerful it was. And I wasn’t … Continue reading