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Windows 10 adaptive state triggers

In Windows 10 Xaml apps there are a few new features for building adaptive UI. Here is an example of the adaptive state trigger and the new property setters

The adaptive trigger allows you to set a minimum or maxium width and/or height which will then set the visual state.

The new property setters make it much easier to change properties on a visual state that don't require animation and a storyboard.

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Combine/minify CSS on Github Pages

Here is a little trick to combine and (kind of) minify css on github pages.

Use capture to set content to a variable, include_relative to include another file from the same directory then output the variable with the strip_newlines filter to help reduce the size.

The same trick should work for js files as well.