John Polacek

Chicago Web Developer

Senior Software Engineer at VEG

Shipping open source on Github

Follow me at @johnpolacek

Notes from UX Camp Chicago

It was a rainy day in Chicago yesterday, so it was a perfect time to spend inside at Columbia College for UX Camp Chicago. It was yet another great conference put on by the excellent Russ Unger and the excellent team at ChicagoCamps.org.

Content Display Patterns with Expressive CSS

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Keep gh-pages and master in sync with one line of code

If you publish projects to Github, then you may be using a gh-pages branch to create a nice home for your project with a demo and some documentation. A common pattern is to keep the gh-pages and master branches in sync with each other — whatever code is in master is the same as your project page (gh-pages).

Expressive CSS and Using NPM as a Build Tool

Expressive CSS Project Page

Expressive CSS follows the atomic approach to writing lightweight, scalable CSS with utility classes that are easy to write and understand. Find out more at johnpolacek.github.io/expressive-css

Simple Responsive Grid

Simple Grid is my new responsive grid system I am using on all of my websites these days. View it on Github