The Problematic Cross-over Gait Motor Pattern: Part 1
Here Dr. Shawn Allen of The Gait Guys works with elite athlete Jack Driggs to reduce a power leak in his running form. The Cross-over gait is a product of gluteus medius and abdominal weakness and leaves the runner with much frontal plane hip movement, very little separation of the knees and a "cross over" of the feet, rendering a near "tight rope" running appearance where the feet seem to land on a straight line path.
- penguin walk *
Glute stance, abdominal squeeze - hold until next step!
The Kettlebell Mile | StrongFirst
The Kettlebell Mile is the product of a two-decade long search for a way to simultaneously train strength and aerobic capacity. It seems so obvious now, but the best ideas are seen as such only in retrospect. I had much learning and tinkering to do first but finally, the science and my experience (and that of others) converged around this simple idea. What follows is a brief description of that process.
Building hover menus in CSS
https://github.com/kenreilly/css-hover-menu-demo
This project demonstrates how to build various hover menus in pure HTML/CSS.
Examples include:
Standard basic hover menu
Hover menu with nested menus
Radial "pie" menu
Is There Any Alternative to Roof Gutters? - Fine Homebuilding
Are your gutters not doing the job they should be? Are they constantly leaking? Do you just not like how gutters look? Michael Maines, a designer at Fine Lines Construction in Freeport, Maine, discusses ground-gutter systems -- an alternative to roof gutters.
How to Install a Paver Patio Base
Let plastic paver patio base panels take the place of the gravel base to eliminate tons of labor.
Paver patio base panels are made from lightweight high-density polypropylene. The panels typically have tongue-and-groove or shiplap edges to keep the panel edges flush with one another. You may wonder how a thin plastic mat can effectively replace a 6-in.-deep layer of compacted gravel. The answer is that the panels spread out the load, so the weight of a person walking on the patio is distributed more widely. Distributing the load puts less pressure on the soil and prevents the paver bricks from becoming uneven.
Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect in Photoshop
Today, we have decided to bring back a post by Envato founder, Collis Ta’eed, from May 2008, that demonstrates how to create a spectacular grass text effect in Photoshop. Let’s get started!
How To Use Help Elements To Improve Your Designs — Smashing Magazine
When designing a website, the most important thing is to make it as usable and convenient as possible. On a website on which users could possibly get confused, it is best to include help elements. Help elements come in all different shapes and sizes: an entire page, a suggestion box or a quick tip. But they all have one thing in common: besides doing the obvious (i.e. helping the user), help elements provide an extra convenience that brings the website closer to that sought-after usability.
Responsive Grid Design: Ultimate Guide
I find working with the grid helpful. The grid helps to maintain consistency across the different layouts and make faster design decisions. Grids give more precise control over alignments and layout on different screen sizes.
Fixed-Width Layout Grid Setup
To set up a fixed-width grid, we use fixed numeric value for gutters and columns. I recommend 74px wide columns, 32px wide gutters and 16px side margins on each side.
Mobile View
For mobile devices, we use a fluid grid where gutters and side margins have fixed numeric values. I recommend 16px wide gutters and 16px wide side margins on each side.
We can design mobile interfaces at 360×640 sized artboard.
Mobile devices have a small screen resolution. If we display the 12 separate columns, gutters, and side margins on such a small resolution, it becomes quite cumbersome to design at scale.
Better in Black: Rethinking our Most Important Buttons | Spotify Design
If there's one button you use every time you open Spotify, it’s the play button. Today, we’re updating it significantly for better accessibility.

Debugging with Perl
Eugen Konkov — 45 minutes 🐪
Interactive debugging.
This talk about how to catch and report perl application exceptions.
An example based on Mojolicious web server will be given.
I will show how to reproduce exceptions and debug them.
The example will describe how to access and view data at any stack frame.
Also I will show how to implement new debugger commands and how to debug them (yeah, you understand right: how to debug perl debugger while debugging)
This talk will about my second proprietary debugger. It is full rewrite of first version: https://github.com/KES777/Devel-DebugHooks
7 Minute Hip and Shoulder Opening Yoga Flow
You will need a strap to follow this segment, so that the muscles get the full opening effect while staying in a contracted state.
iOS Design Guidelines: Illustrated Patterns (+ free templates)
iPhone design guidelines for UI elements, typography, navigation, design patterns, and more · Downloadable resources · iPhone Sketch template
The BCP (Bulk Copy Program) command in action
The BCP (Bulk Copy Program) utility is a command line that program that bulk-copies data between a SQL instance and a data file using a special format file.
Replacing sugar with allulose - Peter Attia
Allulose is on the top of my sweetener preference list for both objective and subjective reasons.
Although allulose is not as sweet as sugar, I have found that when my daughter bakes with a 1:1 replacement ratio as called upon by recipes, it is still plenty sweet. In short, allulose provides a reasonable amount of sweetness for my family. One aesthetic caveat is that allulose browns in the baking process so it is best used for darker-colored goods…unless you are like me and don’t mind a brown-colored angel food cake.
How to pick more beautiful colors for your data visualizations - Datawrapper Blog
Choosing good colors for your charts is hard. This article tries to make it easier.
01 Broaden your understanding of colors
02 Don’t dance all over the color wheel
03 Use saturation and lightness to make your hues work
04 Use warm colors & blue
05 When using green, make it a yellow or blue one
06 Avoid pure colors
07 Avoid bright, saturated colors
08 Combine colors with different lightness
09 Make your colors similarly “colorful”
10 Avoid too little contrast to the background
11 Avoid too much contrast to the background
12 Choose a background that’s desaturated enough
13 Copy colors, or understand them
Watch Stanley Tucci's Instagram Video on How to Make A Negroni
In the three-minute video, he walks viewers through his steps to make the classic cocktail, which requires some ice, a double shot of gin (or vodka), a shot of sweet vermouth, and a shot of Campari. He also throws some shade on Martini brand vermouth. Sorry, friends. Oh, and the pièce de résistance is a quick squeeze of an orange that also acts as a garnish. Like any responsible chef, he takes a sip to test the drink before turning it over.
Lemon Poppy Seed Bread | Sally's Baking Addiction
This lemon poppy seed quick bread is moist, flavorful, and speckled with plenty of poppy seeds. Finish it with a light layer of lemon glaze.
4 Habits of Highly Disciplined Creators | by Nick Wignall | SIMPLE | May, 2021 | Medium
A lot of people think of creativity and discipline as opposites. But nothing could further from the truth… Many of the most creative people the world has ever known were surprisingly disciplined in…
- Outline your creative work the day before
- Create a warm-up ritual
- Stop fighting your procrastination and validate it instead
- Quarantine your busywork
A Modern CSS Reset - Post - Piccalilli
In this modern era of web development, we don’t really need a heavy-handed reset, or even a reset at all, because CSS browser compatibility issues are much less likely than they were in the old IE 6 days. That era was when resets such as normalize.css came about and saved us all heaps of hell. Those days are gone now and we can trust our browsers to behave more, so I think resets like that are probably mostly redundant.