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Fieldnotes tagged “github”

This is where I like to share various github observations or discoveries made while developing the web.

Jon Rohan Jun 02, 2015

Implementing an all CSS tooltip

GitHub’s UI is a complex system of actions, notes and complex meanings. As a result, we’ve leaned pretty hard on tooltips. Since the site first launched we used a tooltip plugin called tipsy. Performance troubles led us to build CSS tooltips.

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Jon Rohan May 03, 2015

A big update to this site

I recently updated this site. I wanted to share what I was using to build this site. With details on what each thing is good for.

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Jon Rohan Mar 23, 2015

Primer CSS Styleguide

We recently open sourced Primer, because we wanted to be transparent with our styleguide and if anyone could get any use out of it we would like to share. The toolkit isn’t meant to be a full fledged CSS framework like Bootstrap.

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Jon Rohan Oct 09, 2010

Dead Simple Git Workflow

Recently I have had the privilege to work with a few excellent small agile teams. With each team, they have their own process, which works best for them. And there’s nothing wrong with that, a team should work in it’s most effective way. But I came across a team recently that had a workflow that really impressed me. It is described as an extremely cool Git workflow.

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