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Hampton Lintorn-Catlin
Lintorn-Catlin in May 2026
Born
Hampton Catlin

(1982-09-02) September 2, 1982 (age 43)
Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.
Occupations
  • Computer programmer
  • author
Known forCreating the Sass and Haml markup languages
PartnerMichael Lintorn-Catlin

Hampton Lintorn-Catlin (né Catlin; born 1982)[1] is an American computer programmer, programming language inventor, and author, best known as the creator of the Sass and Haml markup languages. He is a Principal Software Engineer at Square.[citation needed] He was previously CTO at Thriveworks,[2] CTO at Moovweb (acquired by Limelight Networks in 2020),[3] and Vice President of Engineering at Rent the Runway.[4] He was Head of Mobile at the Wikimedia Foundation, where he led development of Wikipedia's mobile website and oversaw the foundation's mobile app efforts.[5][6]

Creations

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Haml

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Main article: Haml

He created a markup language called Haml which he intended to be a radically different design for inline page templating systems like eRuby in Ruby. Since its initial release in 2006, Haml has been ported to several other languages and has been the design inspiration for other languages like Slim.[7] It is the second most popular templating language for the Ruby on Rails framework.[8]

Sass

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Main article: Sass (style sheet language)

In 2006, Lintorn-Catlin created a style sheet language to expand on Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), used to describe presentation semantics of web pages. Lintorn-Catlin continued to work on Sass with co-designer Natalie Weizenbaum through 2008.[9][10] Sass is now bundled as part of Rails.[11]

In 2011, he co-wrote with his husband the book Pragmatic Guide to Sass, published through The Pragmatic Bookshelf.[12][13]

Wikipedia Mobile

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Lintorn-Catlin wrote several early applications for iOS and other mobile platforms, including Dictionary!, a popular dictionary application,[14] and iWik (later renamed iPedia), an early third-party Wikipedia browsing client for the iPhone which the Wikimedia Foundation acquired in 2008.[15][16] He was subsequently hired by Wikimedia[17] as mobile development lead, launching the official mobile website in June 2009, with a backend developed in Ruby on the Merb framework.[6][17]

Personal life

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Lintorn-Catlin was born on September 2, 1982, in Jacksonville, Florida, United States.[1] He currently resides in New York with his husband and collaborator, Michael Lintorn-Catlin.[18]

In March 2014, after Brendan Eich was appointed as new CEO of Mozilla, Lintorn-Catlin and his husband publicly withdrew their puzzle game from the Mozilla Marketplace in protest of Eich's earlier financial support for Proposition 8, a California ballot initiative that banned same-sex marriage, and called for a boycott of Mozilla.[19][20] The couple's involvement was covered by the BBC, TechCrunch, and Vox, among others.[21][22][23] Eich personally reached out to Lintorn-Catlin, and the two met in San Francisco in an attempt to find common ground.[23] Eich resigned approximately a week after his appointment.[21] In a follow-up post, Lintorn-Catlin called the outcome a "sad victory".[24]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b Carneiro, Cloves Jr.; Catlin, Hampton; Hardy, Jeffrey Allan (August 3, 2007). Beginning Rails: From Novice to Professional. Apress. ISBN 9781590596869. Archived from the original on May 13, 2016. Retrieved August 30, 2013.
  2. ^ "Professional Counseling". Thriveworks. Archived from the original on March 4, 2023. Retrieved May 20, 2026.
  3. ^ "Moovweb Appoints Hampton Catlin As Chief Technology Officer" (Press release). San Francisco, CA: Moovweb. September 5, 2013. Retrieved May 20, 2026 – via Marketwired.
  4. ^ Team, Glossy (January 16, 2018). "Live from NRF: How Rent the Runway's Unlimited subscription model changed its in-store strategy". Glossy. Retrieved May 20, 2026.
  5. ^ "Wikizine/EN2009-120 - Meta-Wiki". meta.wikimedia.org. Retrieved May 20, 2026.
  6. ^ a b "Wikimedia Mobile is Officially Launched". Wikimedia Foundation. June 30, 2009. Archived from the original on March 21, 2015. Retrieved August 30, 2013.
  7. ^ "Haml". Archived from the original on May 12, 2019. Retrieved February 23, 2015.
  8. ^ "The Ruby Toolbox". Archived from the original on February 23, 2015. Retrieved February 23, 2015.
  9. ^ "The Sass Team". sass-lang.com. Archived from the original on September 1, 2013. Retrieved August 30, 2013.
  10. ^ Cooper, Martin. "Hampton Catlin on building Sass". .net. Future Publishing. Archived from the original on September 1, 2013. Retrieved August 30, 2013.
  11. ^ Cooper, Peter. "Rails 3.1 Adopts CoffeeScript, jQuery, Sass and.. Controversy". Ruby inside. Archived from the original on August 28, 2013. Retrieved August 30, 2013.
  12. ^ Catlin, Hampton; Lintorn-Catlin, Michael (2012). Pragmatic Guide to Sass. Pragmatic Bookshelf. ISBN 978-1934356845.
  13. ^ "Hampton Catlin". hamptoncatlin.com. Archived from the original on September 14, 2013. Retrieved August 30, 2013.
  14. ^ "Hampton Catlin". O'Reilly Media. Archived from the original on July 25, 2012. Retrieved August 30, 2013.
  15. ^ "Wikipedia on your iPhone with iWik and Kiwi". IntoMobile. September 14, 2008. Retrieved May 20, 2026.
  16. ^ "Meet the merbists: Hampton Catlin". Merbist. Archived from the original on April 2, 2014. Retrieved August 30, 2013.
  17. ^ a b Cooper, Peter. "Wikipedia Needs Rubyists to Flesh Out Mobile Vision". Ruby inside. Archived from the original on August 26, 2014. Retrieved August 30, 2013.
  18. ^ Fagioli, Brian (March 25, 2014). "New Mozilla CEO is allegedly anti-gay marriage -- Firefox developers boycott". Beta News. Archived from the original on March 30, 2014. Retrieved March 31, 2014.
  19. ^ Williams, Lauren C. "LGBT Developers Boycott Firefox After Anti-Gay CEO Takes Office". Think Progress. Archived from the original on March 30, 2014. Retrieved March 31, 2014.
  20. ^ Catlin, Hampton. "Goodbye, Firefox Marketplace". Rarebit. Archived from the original on March 24, 2014. Retrieved May 26, 2017.
  21. ^ a b "Mozilla boss Brendan Eich resigns after gay marriage storm". BBC News. April 4, 2014. Retrieved May 20, 2026.
  22. ^ Crook, Jordan (March 29, 2014). "After Supporting Prop 8, New CEO Brendan Eich Comes Under Fire From Mozilla Employees". TechCrunch. Archived from the original on December 23, 2019. Retrieved March 31, 2014.
  23. ^ a b Matthews, Dylan (April 1, 2014). "Calls grow louder for Prop 8-supporting Mozilla CEO to resign". Vox. Retrieved May 20, 2026.
  24. ^ Catlin, Hampton. "A Sad 'Victory'". Archived from the original on August 25, 2014. Retrieved August 22, 2014.
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