Per Design

Mostly musings on design

Per Design

  • Upgraded display

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    Dell sells some pretty nice monitors. Just picked up a nice UltraSharp 27-inch display. Great color accuracy and good build quality. The old 20″ Apple Cinema Display (with the old ADC connector) is now retired after close to 10 years of use. It might get used as a 2nd monitor, but there’s not enough desk…

  • Thoughts on WordPress 3.8

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    Responsive, platform/screen agnostic back-end for the win. Not enough value contrast on the back-end styles for my tastes. A bit more value differentiation between the darkest gray (#222) and the slightly lighter dark gray (#333) would have been nice (say a #444). The other styles to choose from are interesting. Some are quite vibrant but…

  • A very useful WordPress code snippet to know…

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    As I was working on a custom WordPress theme (based on _s) I found myself trying to get the slug of a post to use as a class for additional styling. Unfortunately, WordPress doesn’t have a get_the_slug() function or a the_slug() function. Well, not built out like that at any rate. The “why not?” is…