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Or, 16 cool things you may not have known your stylesheets could do. I'd rather have kept it to a nice round number like 10, but they just kept coming. Sorry.

I've been using SCSS/SASS for most of my styling work since 2009, and I'm a huge fan of Compass (by the great @chriseppstein). It really helped many of us through the darkest cross-browser crap. Even though browsers are increasingly playing nice with CSS, another problem has become very topical: managing the complexity in stylesheets as our in-browser apps get larger and larger. SCSS is an indispensable tool for dealing with this.

This isn't an introduction to the language by a long shot; many things probably won't make sense unless you have some SCSS under your belt already. That said, if you're not yet comfy with the basics, check out the aweso

I’ve taken to moving my macro configuration into a php config file, and then {% set config = craft.config.get('configValue', 'configFile') %} Makes for a more reusable macro, and more commentable config.

the twig macro loads the php config file instead of {% set config = {…super complicated thing…} %} You put the super complicated thing in php where it is easier to express

craft.config.get('configValue', 'configFile') doesn’t need configFile to be an actual plugin

in /craft/config/configFile.php - and it looks like all the other ones - multiple environments, etc.