Mind Boners (via 3rdmartini)

Now here’s a developer who knows how to surprise and delight his fans.

Sure, it’s as easy as a Twitter search these days to find a fan of your brand, but it takes EFFORT to follow up on what you find out.

The developer for LESS.app did just that last night. Bravo. You’ve got an even bigger fan now.

For those of you who dabble in web dorkery, you would do well to check out his application and the LESS technology in general.

It’s an accompaniment to CSS that really has the potential to completely change the way I think about and work with CSS code.

Have you ever wanted to use variables for common values that you use in CSS? LESS will allow you to do it. Want to nest definitions into an easier to understand hierarchy? LESS comes to the rescue. How about writing functions in CSS that affect subsequent entities? Yep. LESS.

Of course, all of this does not work natively on the server. You have to compile your LESS code into a valid CSS document. That’s where LESS.app comes in.

Check it out. It’s pretty damn slick.