In April of 1958, a 22 year-old Hunter S. Thompson wrote a letter on the meaning of life as advice to a friend.

Make a deal with the Universe, hold up your end of the bargain and who knows what might happen.

Judging children’s artwork… harshly.

When I’m pushed to get a website done on time or just struggling to find a cure for some niggling error, I’m not ashamed to admit using some hacky CSS. Everyone does it. I normally comment my code to make it clear I’m using a hack. But Harry Roberts of csswizardry.com suggests using a shame.css file specifically for this purpose. This will make life so much easier for future changes to the site especially if someone else has to make changes to my legacy code. I’m definitely going to start doing something like this. My only issue is that technically I already use a ‘shame’ file… mine is just called ie-all.css and sits behind <!– [if it IE]>.

Classic tale by Douglas Adams via @reddit

A good overview, including some responsive design fundamentals.

I got stuck on level 6. I can’t do simple maths, forget the pressure.

by Nic Haralambous

via @badsyntax

Man ruins Game of Thrones with series of novels full of spoilers.