Today I learned that gifs can have more than 256 colors. Using more seems unpractical, but it’s still a cool trick.

This was an interesting article about resizing vector icons — in short, the details count, and SVG is no replacement for a designer’s keen eye.

This is just a test post from Heroku :)

While working on a project managed with Git, I needed to split some files into a new repository. In order to maintain the git history on these files, I used git filter-branch. Here are two methods I used.

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Take note of the Apple products. I had no idea they were so, inspired, by Braun.

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Bundler has a feature called binstubs, which places stubs for gem bin scripts in ./bin. Unfortunately, ZSH doesn’t seem to complete these files out of the box.

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I found these excellent cheat sheets for Vim — nice and simple keyboard overlays.

I recently published Splinter, which contains a few helpers for interacting with Rails forms using Capybara.

Wow, I had no idea there were so many emoji icons! Use this cheat sheet to make your Github issues and pull requests diamonds.

A post from 37Signals about how they made the new Basecamp fly.