Issue #137

Ryan found a neat way to give avatars kind of rough, uneven, varied edges.

Will Boyd shows a couple of interesting things you can do with CSS counters.

The Sketching with CSS eBook will teach you how to sketch out your website directly with code and how to use CSS’ amazing features to your advantage.

Catalin Rosu shows how to create nice looking radio and checkbox form controls using the CSS currentColor and pseudo elements.

Paul Davis shares some interesting notes on Ghost’s CSS and the steps his team is planning to take to improve it.

Colin Toh gives a nice introduction to Bower and explains how to use it with Grunt.js.

Nicolas Bevacqua shows how to automate performance measuring using Grunt or Gulp.

Chris Sevilleja looks at a interesting and useful technique to spice up your texts.

The Internet Explorer team recently launched a new tool to make it easier to test sites in IE regardless of which platform you’re on.

Analyze your CSS in a new way. Consolidate, refactor, and gawk at the 37 shades of blue your site somehow ended up with.

If you want your clients to care about you and the work you are doing, start charging a lot of money for it. (I very much agree with this advice.)