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I just almost did this, so a little PSA. This is the screen you get in Chrome when you go to Help > Report an issue… See that little thumbnail? That’s a screenshot of BOTH of my active monitors. I didn’t ask for it to be taken nor was there any indication it was being […]

I’m mostly just curious what the deal is. Maybe it’s just “growth hacking” blah blah silly weirdness, but then why deliberately ruin the URLs? If you’re into this kind of game, wouldn’t it be less work to just link to things? Also the sheer number of them fascinates me. Growth hackers copying each other?

State of the Word this year: I’m most excited to learn about “Phase 3” of Gutenberg. Realtime editing features sound neat, but I’m most interested in what the “workflow” features Matt eluded to there are. My dream workflow for CSS-Tricks is to get draft blog posts into Gutenberg as soon as possible. Right now they […]

Apple is going to roll out a software update that gives users a choice about data being collected on them. Facebook is so pissed about it that they are doing that thing that super wealthy companies do where they take out full-page advertisements in newspapers to bitch about it. Instead of just saying “this is […]

I think it went like this: Dropcam started in 2009 and made a nice WiFi camera thing. Nest started in 2010, and acquired Dropcam in 2014 Google acquired Nest also in 2014, so maybe those things happened at the same time? Anyway, I happen to have a Dropcam camera, and now it’s a paperweight because: […]

I got a couple of print copies of my book, Practical SVG, translated into Korean by the company webactually. Here’s a photo of it sitting on top of another book I co-authored many years ago also translated by them: From what it looks like to me, they do a pretty great job of the translation. […]