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Schema.org vocabularies aren’t very well documented yet. I wanted to know what was required to change from <time pubdate> to the schema.org equivalent. The answer is less than I expected.

Amazon just announced Kindle Format 8, supporting HTML5 and CSS3! Yay! But closer inspection reveals they’re only supporting the marketing version of “HTML5” and “CSS3”. Boo! Won’t someone just give us the web stack for ebooks already?

Here’s a quick primer to GitHub Pages workflow, and three ways to work things:

• Different content on master and gh-pages branches
• Mirroring master to gh-pages
• Using gh-pages for everything — no master branch

Is CSS Lint’s “Don’t use IDs in selectors” suggestion just crazy talk? While some are using this suggestion’s supposed ‘obviously bad’-ness as a reason to reject CSS Lint out of hand, it’s more valuable to actually examine the why behind this suggestion. The reasons may surprise you…

Wherein I cover current uses of block quote metadata that are unsupported by <blockquote>, and consider potential improvements to the situation.

“Umm… there’s some things I’ve been wanting to say…”

My style guide for this site, for your edification and copy-and-paste pleasure.

A brief guide to setting up a SMF manifest for making RadiantCMS restart-ready on a Joyent accelerator, for non-sysadmins

Some resources for putting your donations to good use — including some companies offering to match donations.

I’ve reviewed Ben Schwarz’s excellent “HTML5 for Web Developers” version of the HTML5 spec, comparing it to the other versions available over on HTML5 Doctor (→go)

A look at the current CSS3 Flexible Box Layout Module, containing lots of information you don’t want to hear, but with extensive reference to the movie A Princess Bride.