A better future with KSS

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KSS A better future with

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I’m Kyle Neath On the interwebs @kneath

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I’m Director of Design I work at GitHub. It’s a tech thing.

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Mostly, I discuss features write code sketch design

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I’m ≅ Designer That label frustrates me.

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I’m a Builder I build things with computers.

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I like building tools To increase your potential for building rad shit

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KSS Knyle Style Sheets This thing I built

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Knyle?

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Kyle Neath

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Knyle Kneath?

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Knyle Kneath? Recruiters love this kid

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// A button suitable for giving stars to someone. // // :hover - Subtle hover highlight. // .stars-given - A highlight indicating you've already given a star. // .stars-given:hover - Subtle hover highlight on top of stars-given styling. // .disabled - Dims the button to indicate it cannot be used. // // Styleguide 2.1.3. a.button.star{ ... &.star-given{ ... } &.disabled{ ... } }

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groan

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warpspire.com/kss

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Why How I built KSS I built KSS

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Building tools is exciting! (documentation is not)

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Why?

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39 Pages

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Thirty Nine

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/** * Homepage Style * * Standard Layout (all parts) for Big Little Homepage * * This style has been designed by Mina Margin. It reflects * the composition of colors through the years of the * customers project as well as the boldness it implies. * * @project Big Little Homepage * @version 0.2.8 * @package xhtml-css * @author Mina Margin * @copyright 2008 by the author * @cssdoc version 1.0-pre * @license GPL v3 * * @colordef #fff; white * @colordef #808080; standard grey */

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Designed for Machines

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Get Angry! Build something better! Takeaway #1

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How?

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TomDoc Photo Credit: Claude Nix

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Designed for humans

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Yet machine parseable

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Explain the obvious

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One page speciﬁcation

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This can work for CSS But where do I start?

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USE IT FIRST If you are building a tool Takeaway #2

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Tools are meant to be used

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If I’m not using it, it’s failed

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Started using KSS before I designed KSS

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// A button suitable for giving stars to someone. // // :hover - Subtle hover highlight. // .stars-given - A highlight indicating you'v // .stars-given:hover - Subtle hover highlight on to // .disabled - Dims the button to indicate // Part 1 of 3 THE DESCRIPTION SECTION

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Tremendous value in the obvious

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Should I be writing this code?

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Explain yourself and write better code

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:hover

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:active

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.primary

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+ × (default) + :hover + :active × (default) + .primary

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12 variations

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Without documentation, only the author knows

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// :hover - Subtle hover highlight. // .stars-given - A highlight indicating you'v // .stars-given:hover - Subtle hover highlight on to // .disabled - Dims the button to indicate // // Styleguide 2.1.3. a.button.star{ Part 2 of 3 THE MODIFIERS SECTION

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I need something tangible

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I need something to make people love documentation

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// Styleguide 2.1.3. a.button.star{ ... &.star-given{ ... } &.disabled{ Part 3 of 3 THE STYLEGUIDE SECTION

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Shit. I have no idea how to build a parser.

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5 hours later…

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First iteration TomDoc + SASS

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Second iteration Custom parser

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Building software is easy Just try it!

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Beneﬁts

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github.com/styleguide

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Having a styleguide has been awesome

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Having a styleguide has been awesome an automatically generated

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Having a styleguide has been awesome an automatically generated living

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Automatically generated = Never out of date

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Living = Breaks when the site breaks

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Hey, do we have a button for...

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Why do we have ﬁve diﬀerent boxed styles?

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A styleguide helps you refactor

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All I did was change the spacing a little…

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Accidental style changes will happen

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A styleguide is one place to test everything

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MOVING FAST DOCUMENTATION IS ABOUT Takeaway #3 AS A TEAM

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CSS is growing up

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url('/images/testing.png')

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url('/images/testing.png') url(/images/testing.png)

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Relic of the past We’re onto better things now

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We have some amazing tools

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We have some amazing tools CSSEdit/Espresso SMACSS LESS SASS/SCSS Firebug / web inspector OOCS BOOTSTRAP BLUEPRINT compass stylus