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  • Foo Fighters mobile device parallax

    Recently, the Foo Fighters website has featured a countdown. We’ve yet to find out what it is counting down to. Whilst looking at the site on my iPhone, I noticed there is a clever parallax effect on the background image which is related to the position of the device. Naturally, as a curious front end…

  • Flexbox order

    A responsive demo showing reordering of content blocks at different viewport widths. This demo uses flexbox and the order property.

  • Sass list demo

    A Sass list to provide backgrounds for different hero sections and adding support for retina devices. The list contains 3 values per item – a suffix to the class selector, the default background image and a background image for retina devices.

  • No more faux columns

    For quite some time we’ve used the faux columns technique to create the appearance of equal height columns. With flexbox, this is no longer necessary.

  • CSS proportional height

    Having just come across a situation where I need a container to scale its height proportionally to its width for a responsive site, I am posting my solution here.

  • CSS Float left and align right

    We often have situations where we have elements sitting side by side in the design of a website and CSS has provided us with an easy way to achieve this using the float attribute. A common example might be the navigation on a website.

  • Reducing HTTP requests with Sass

    Ease development and maintenance of CSS without increasing http requests by the use of Sass partials

  • Space Invaders Fridge Magnets

    It seemed appropriate these magnets should be used on the Pentangle office fridge.

  • Seloc Winter Warmer 2013

    Thanks to FatWomble for putting together this video of this years Seloc Winter Warmer.

  • Llandow Trackday

    Huge thanks to Andibrook for booking this day with Llandow Circuit. Here’s a video of a few laps taken with the GoPro HD camera I won via Surfers Against Sewage.