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Have Baggage, Will Travel

You can’t visit Iceland without checking out the Blue Lagoon. Oh, I’ve heard all the arguments against it: It’s a tourist trap. It’s a manmade attraction. It’s expensive. All these claims are at least somewhat true—but that doesn’t detract from the fact that the Blue Lagoon is still pretty freaking awesome.

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Team Data strikes again 🙂

How to pronounce Eyjafjallajökull

Celebrating the latest update on WordPress.com notifications and the fact my team at Automattic is coming to Iceland for a visit by teaching you how to pronounce Eyjafjallajökull:

Fun

I’ve been going over my iPhoto library and bumped into a couple of short videos I shot while flying an Aerobatic Flight over Reykjavik in 2006. My kids (and of course my other half) gave me that flight for my birthday. It was one of the most memorable gifts I’ve had. Would love to go again, highly recommend it.

This is the plane I went on:

And here is the view from the cockpit:

Awesome tool that can help you with those responsiv.es!

Beau’s Blog

My work has had me focused on making websites more responsive. Part of taking a non-responsive design and back-porting some media queries into the CSS is identifying where the breakpoints for a particular design exist.

To aid in identifying where these breakpoints are I built a page with an iframe in it that would tell me how wide it is at any given time. More features were added and eventually we had a useful little tool. So here it is for your pleasure, the elegantly named:

HTTP://ICANHAZ.RESPONSIV.ES/

One particularly useful features is the bookmarklet. Drag that thing to your browser’s bookmark bar and then click it when you want to load up whatever page you happen to be looking at.

If you’d like to check out the source code it’s on Github. It’s mostly client side Javascript but with a little Node.js and CoffeeScript to help determine the X-FRAME-OPTIONS

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