Given the all the fuss over the blue/black or white/gold dress this week, I whipped up a quick simulation that allows you to view the dress under different lighting conditions.

Slide the control from side-to-side to fade between the three images: a “blue/black” version where we subtract out the theoretical color of the light (#524922), the original picture, and a “white/gold” version where we add color to compensate for the perceived shadow (#392c00).

qz.com picked this up and created their own version as well.

Two new technologies – the modular smartphone and USB 3.1 – are set to radically accelerate the convergence of everything to a single, in-pocket device. In fact, they are so revolutionary that they will change the entire way we think about mobile computing as the iPhone did earlier this millennium.

Modules will eat custom hardware

Modular smartphones, the first of which being Project Ara, will shift the way we buy devices while opening up new markets.

Please note that this article is written about an Editor’s Draft of a specification as of January 2015, which means the information may change without notice

CSS Selectors Level 4 is the next iteration of the CSS selector spec, the last version of which was made a recommendation in 2011 after being a working draft for a number of years.

So, what’s new?

Selector Profiles

If you find this interesting, read more about CSS Selectors Level 4 which will offer you even more tools for stylesheet development.

CSS3’s :nth-child and :nth-last-child selectors are powerful: not only can they replace :first-child and :last-child, but they can style more complex patterns like the first (or all but the first) three children, every fourth child, or combinations of the pattern “a*n+b”.

I’m now on my fifth – though I’m sure not my last – iteration of blog management, Jekyll. It’s a slick static site generator and from what I can tell, the most popular.

One of the benefits of a static site generation tool is that you can aggressively cache the content. For that I’ve thrown Cloudflare in front of everything and have it both caching and optimizing all of my assets.

As part of the re-launch I wanted to offer some basic site search. I looked into a few options for static search in pure Javascript, but the most convenient turned out to be Swiftype which was not much more work than clicking a switch on Cloudflare’s app page.