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Stephen Radford

Software Engineer. I take a few photos when I'm not stuck behind a keyboard too.

A Weekend With Apple Watch

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A Weekend With Apple Watch

It's totally and completely unnecessary. What I mean by that is that everything Apple Watch does can already be achieved on your iPhone. You can already read your notifications, message people, track your fitness, tell the time and so-on. The Watch lets you do some of these things

Restricting Post Titles in WordPress

I've been working on a site that required the restriction of post titles from within the CMS. It would have been easy to wrap the title in a substr() but that would have left the client confused as to why half of their title was missing. I couldn&

Multi-Line Padded Text With Background and Line Spacing

==Update May 2017: Matt Brunt [https://twitter.com/Brunty] pointed me to a lovely hack using box-shadow [http://codepen.io/anon/pen/eWGLEM] which you should probably totally use instead of the 2-year-old method below. I've been working on a project that called for some text to be

I just quit my job

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I just quit my job

Last Monday I quit my job. Well, me and Paul [https://twitter.com/mckay_1988] both quit our jobs and we're going full time at Cocoon. I'm scared and excited at the same time but mostly everything feels pretty surreal right now. It's great

Gulp, AngularJS and html5Mode

To make your AngularJS app feel a little nicer you've probably enabled html5Mode to remove the annoying hashbang from your URIs. However, this can present some issues when trying to test the site locally. And, unless you've been living under a rock for the past year

Stop ng-repeat auto-sorting your objects in AngularJS 1.3

I was working on a project that called for an object to be used with ng-repeat. By default Angular orders this alphabetically but this wasn't what we wanted in the project at all. As it turns out there's no way to stop this in AngularJS 1.

Animating or transitioning view changes in AngularJS

Since AngularJS 1.2.0 we've had the ability to do native animations in Angular using CSS classes, transitions and keyframes. I've been working on a site recently where it called for transitions to be used between view changes heavily. Thankfully this is made really easy

Setup a new Mac in 5 minutes

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Setup a new Mac in 5 minutes

I've just taken proud ownership of a shiny new iMac which meant I had the (dis)pleasure of downloading all of my applications and setting up my development environment. I thought this would be the usual manual process but thanks to Homebrew [http://brew.sh/] and Homebrew Cask