Making the Internet and stabilizing gravity. Run by @Falkowski
San Francisco, CA
Joined April 2010
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✴️ @GravityDept started 13 years ago.
Best job @falkowski ever had.
Only job @falkowski ever had.
And happy Earth Day 🌎🌍🌏🌐
✴️ @GravityDept started 15 years ago.
Status: normal/operating
Personnel: still just @falkowski
Also, happy Earth Day 🌎🌍🌏🌐
✴️ @GravityDept started 17 years ago.
It’s looking like @Falkowski will be here till he’s 90.
Also, happy Earth Day 🌎🌍🌏🌐
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My 500th invoice as @GravityDept was paid today.
Started 14 years 3 months ago. No employees. No contractors. Just me the whole time.
Founder slash janitor is life.
It is time.
End of an era ➔ I'm taking down my Acumen theme demo (Magento 1) tomorrow.
Still supported after 12.5 years. #8 all-time best seller for M1/2.
Demo 🫡 acumen-m1.gravdept.com/
Buy🤔 gravitydept.gumroad.com/l/ac…
A good run. It paid off my mom's house, but a tree falls in the forest.
Anniversary time 🎉
@GravityDept started twelve years ago.
And happy Earth Day 🌎🌍🌏🌐
Coming soon...
Acumen for M2 PWA Studio
Last day before @magento 1.X end of life.
I maintained my Acumen theme for 10.5 years. It still gets sales (a few this month): gumroad.com/l/acumen-magento…
Little announcement ➔ After 1.5 years working on M2 PWA Studio, Acumen is coming for that. One license. Buy before 💵 goes ⬆️
★ New Field Manual ★
Got tired of my terminal saying "You have new mail" and finally looked up how to delete all those messages.
manuals.gravitydept.com/deve…
So Proximo right now.
Received word on speaking at #MagentoImagine 2020.
[sound and fullscreen recommended]
★ Keyframe animations in CSS Modules
gravitydept.com/blog/keyfram…
A far-too-deep-dive into making the plainest CSS animation reusable across React components with scoped styling.
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★ Updated Field Manuals ★
Install + maintain a Mac environment for @Magento 2 and PWA Studio via ValetPlus.
manuals.gravitydept.com/fram…
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Including solutions for "PHP goes insane" and "MySQL goes insane" which are the fault of...
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The @Magento Imagine Excellence Awards – 2019 Edition
4 years, 4 nominations, 4 wins.
Won Best B2B User Experience at @BakerDist!
Awesome six year collaboration between @WatscoInc + @Perficient + @GravityDept. – at Paradise, NV
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Was interviewed by @adobe about mobile trends for a @cmo_com article.
cmo.com/features/articles/20…
I only wanted to talk about PWA, but so did everyone else (ahem @jhuskisson) so my bits are about mobile wallets + budget allocation.
★ Updated Field Manuals
Fixing everything that Homebrew 1.6 broke by moving PHP into `homebrew-core`:
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manuals.gravitydept.com/work…
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Congrats to my favorite client Watsco for winning 3 of 3 awards for B2B at #MagentoImagine in 3 separate years!
Excited I was invited up on stage with them to celebrate 🎉
New post ★ Usable release diffs for Magento
gravitydept.com/blog/usable-…
And the GitHub repo where I'll maintain usable diffs for every @Magento release (without copyright changes): github.com/gravitydepartment…
★ Updated Field Manual
1100 words on why @extend is harmful in CSS, and better alternatives:
manuals.gravitydept.com/code…
Slowly filling out the other "Sass usage" sections. xitter.cf/GravityDept/status/704…
★ Updated Field Manual:
manuals.gravitydept.com/code…
Big update to my CSS manual (a WIP) covering the core language use. Next up: Sass use.