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A tale of Sass in an open source world

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October 01, 2014
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A tale of Sass in an open source world

How Sass came to be in _s

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Tammie Lister

October 01, 2014

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Transcript

  1. A tale of Sass in an open source world.

  2. @karmatosed Tammie Lister

  3. None

  4. “A 1000-HOUR HEAD START: INTRODUCING THE _S THEME” Ian Stewart

    - themeshaper.com/2012/02/13/introducing-the- underscores-theme/

  5. Github.Com/Automattic/_S

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  11. https://github.com/sabreuse/sassy_s https://github.com/karmatosed/undersass https://github.com/MichaelArestad/th_s and more…

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  14. It needed to happen and I got the task

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  16. No compiler or configs (yet).

  17. Leave out Compass.

  18. Careful mixins

  19. All levels of Sassy peeps.

  20. Output is just like _s current style.css.

  21. Version one: partial all the things!

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  23. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmNcD3b3ZtI

  24. Version two: modular is better

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  31. We let it sit and opened it up for opinions…

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  35. How does community built Sass work?

  36. Sometimes you need to make decisions

  37. Sometimes you need to unmake decisions

  38. Sometimes you need to reach out

  39. Patience

  40. Revision

  41. Set limits

  42. How do you get it?

  43. http://underscores.me/

  44. Future

  45. Thanks