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About Dougal Campbell
Dougal is a web developer, and a "Developer Emeritus" for the WordPress platform. When he's not coding PHP, Perl, CSS, JavaScript, or whatnot, he spends time with his wife, three children, a dog, and a cat in their Atlanta area home.
When GIF serve JavaScript!
By manipulating the GIF headers, one can create a bi-format file which is valid both as a GIF image and JavaScript code. This could allow one to upload an image, then reference it from an html script tag as a local resource, potentially bypassing certain security restrictions.
txtjs
A canvas font and typesetting API for CreateJS
The Truth About Cast Iron Pans: 7 Myths That Need To Go Away | Serious Eats
Myths and truths about cooking with cast iron.
The Truth About Cast Iron Pans: 7 Myths That Need To Go Away | Serious Eats
MetricsGraphics.js - a library based on D3.js, optimized for visualizing and laying out time-series data
“MetricsGraphics.js is a library built on top of D3 that is optimized for visualizing and laying out time-series data.”
Let's Encrypt
New security cert authority, coming soon.
BuiltWith Web Technology Usage Statistics
Track the most popular web services and technologies in use by the top web sites.
Calibri and Cambria fonts for Mac | RMTWeb
I get lots of Word and Exel docs that use the Cambria font, which the Mac doesn’t have, by default. So the font usually gets substituted with Times New Roman, which screws up the formatting. But not anymore.
Typ.io: Fonts that go together
Learn which fonts work well together by seeing what designers are using on real-world sites.
Eloquent JavaScript
An online ebook about JavaScript. Now in its 2nd edition.