desideratum

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A nice writeup by Chris Eppstein showing an iterative process for converting Digg’s CSS to Sass. Concepts include creating and extending base classes, nesting selectors, and extracting mixins.

I love seeing people get the importance of information design.

/via Fast Company

Fantastic news. Accompanied by Google’s announcement of open-sourcing VP8, it’s clear that regardless of the in-fighting between certain parties, there’s presently a strong commitment to pushing forward HTML5 components. 

/via @veen c/o cameronmoll

We’re happy to announce that we’ve teamed up with Google to make webfonts ubiquitous and more accessible. Starting today, we’re making our Typekit font events an open source project called WebFont Loader….

Additionally, we’ll be supporting Google’s new collection of open source webfonts. We’ve just added these fonts to the Typekit library for all account levels, so switching between either service is as easy swapping a couple lines of code. Our goal is shared with Google: to make it as easy as possible for anyone to start using webfonts.

This bookmarklet by Matt Pizzimenti allows you to easily see which of your Facebook privacy settings might not be as secure as you think. 

At first, I was skeptical about what might happen after logging into Facebook and clicking the bookmarklet (note: maybe there should be a demo video?), but everything seemed to check out just fine. Here’s a screenshot of the result, which is a security panel that slides into view at the top of the browser:

If you’ve spent quite a bit of time configuring your privacy settings through the recent Facebook updates, there shouldn’t be any surprises here; otherwise, I can see this being immensely useful for making sure you’re covered.

For more info, check Twitter (@reclaimprivacy) and/or the source code on Github.

/via Teehan+Lax