The Van Dyke Beard is a style that has made a revival of sorts in the last 30 years. Some people think of this style as something from the old west or the 17th and 18th century, but we think its back and here to stay. It started its comeback around the 90’s when some rock musicians such as Eddie Vedder and Kurt Cobain were sporting the style. Today it’s quite popular with notable celebrities wearing the style the most popular being Robert Downy Jr. and Johnny Depp. The Van Dyke Beard originated in the 17th century and was named after a Flemish painter named Anthony van Dyck. He was known to paint many self portraits with himself wearing the beard style as well as paint other...
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This hair and beard guide will give you ideas on haircuts or shaves that you might like. It includes common samples and styles, as well as common hair cutting terminology. This will ultimately make it easier to describe how you want to look so that you can communicate with your barber better. Indeed, precision and skill is one thing when it comes to giving you all your masculine follicular glory, but clear communication is key to help you get what you want out of your haircut and shave. How To Communicate With Your Barber The following easy steps will help you to communicate clearly with your barber so that you are both on the same page from the beginning to the end of your haircut....
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Following the market’s demand for minimalistic and consistent UIs, and the growth in modular web development, we tend to pay more and more attention to documentation and the efficiency of designer–engineer workflow with each project we undertake. Also, since the documentation process is often the weakest spot for modern web teams, we’re constantly looking for the right tools to help us. Living style guides help front-end developers transform front-end code bases into well-described pattern libraries with the minimum of effort. But to make them really efficient, we need to choose the proper tools — so let’s have a closer look at what our community has to offer. I’ve...
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Atlas is living style-guide, pattern library, guidelines and documentation static site generator with extensive styles monitoring and Sass components reports. It generates documentation from markdown files and documentation comment in It is opinionated. Because it is, probably, impossible to cover all cases in CSS/Sass. It designed primarily as "style-guide driven development" tool with focus on splited files approach and incapsulated components with normative Sass imports structure. blazing fast thanks to Mustache and Marked. It primary designed as development platform; supports incremental builds, so only changed pages could be updated; could be setup with live reload or "hot" reload;...
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Definition The Parthians ruled from 247 BCE to 224 CE creating a vast empire that stretched from the Mediterranean in the west to India and China in the east. East of the Caspian Sea there emerged from the steppe of Central Asia a nomadic Scythian tribe called the Parni. Later called the Parthians and taking over the Seleucid Empire and fending off the Romans, they established themselves as a superpower in their own right. With a unique and extremely successful fighting style, the vast area they conquered put them in contact with goods and cultural influences from different parts of their empire. From these influences, the Parthians not only blended architectural styles to make their own...
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Mustache Gift Guide: 20 Must Have Products to Celebrate Movember It’s officially Movember, and you know what that means? Time to grow out that mustache (or moustache) of yours in order to help raise awareness for prostate cancer. Originally started back in 2004, the Movember Foundation is the driving force behind the now heavily celebrated month of Movember. Although cancer is a deadly disease, catching it early can significantly reduce the impact, allowing doctor’s the ability to find effective treatments – which in turn can help reduce the number of preventable deaths. That’s what Movember is all about. As men, we grow our mustaches out to raise awareness, and...
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Last month I was in beautiful Berlin for the wonderful Beyond Tellerrand conference, where I had the opportunity to talk about style guide best practices and all that goes into creating and maintaining successful pattern libraries. Here’s a video of my talk: The following is a (lightly-edited) transcript of the talk: So I’ll just let this sink in. We’ll call him Von Vapor. So this is the boss, and he calls up his team and says, “Great news! We just got the green light to redesign the homepage.” And the team responds, “That’s great news, boss!” “Yeah the current homepage is super ugly!” “And don’t even ask about the code...
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