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Piggy Piggy Hamster Hamster Darkwinged Fungus Gnat Darkwinged Fungus Gnat Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla Patty In real news, I didn’t realize she had died or that the stories just skip over the fact that Llama Llama has no dad (that’s a home-run article title right there), kinda like Opie Taylor. I was like, […]

We were preparing some rooms to be painted, removing things from the walls and tucking everything into a smaller room that didn’t need painting. Ruby took our little bike monster guy and was putting them in funny places and taking pictures of them. It got even more fun when she got ahold of a giant […]

Kevin Lutz at McSweeny’s: Now, you may be saying, “Aren’t you the party in power? Didn’t we already elect YOU? Shouldn’t YOU be doing something?” Yes, and I couldn’t be prouder to represent you in this fight. But I need you to understand three critical things: 1. Senator Palpatine needs to flip just FIVE seats to take back power. 2. […]

A 2nd place winner for the C-SPAN StudentCam documentary season was a student from right down in Klamath Falls. Good job Linnea! We get it pretty bad up here in Bend, but they get it much worse down there, I hear. Here’s hoping for a better year than the last several.

Justin is leaving WP Tavern. Best of luck Justin! I love WP Tavern, it always seems to have the best and most relevant WordPress news to me. Sarah Gooding does a great job there too. Here’s hoping they can hire more writers to fill those big shoes.

I just want to make sure y’all understand how many raisins there aren’t in Raisin Bran: 1.75 scoops 2.2 scoops 1.333 (repeating) scoops π scoops −12i scoops VIII scoops 3 scoops There are this many scoops: 3√8 2! Two, there are two scoops people what about this is hard. please don’t ask any questions about […]

Beer money. The first post¹ on CSS-Tricks was on July 4th, 2007. Not my first website, but probably in the first 10 or so. CSS-Tricks was originally supposed to be part of a network of sites that were all designed to be essentially self-help on a niche topic. That network (nothing official, just a bunch […]

Since I have the power to move mountains, I’m going to try again. Amazon, this is not a useful order confirmation email: It doesn’t tell me what I ordered. So: We’re coming up on the two-year anniversary of this change. At the time, the consensus seems to be Amazon wanting to avoid sales data being […]

This one is for all my homies that don’t have big thoughts all the time. This one is for all you who go to work, do a good job, then go home and forget about it. This one is for all y’all who are too busy doing stuff to blog about it. Nah. You’ve got […]

I’ve had a lot of camping units in my life so far. I was a long-time tent guy until my tech life started affording me the finances to try other things. Here they are in the order I bought/sold them. The Volkswagen Westfalia Vanagon (2010-2012) The “Westy”, as owners typically call them. It was super […]

A couple of years back I got into the whole use a DSLR as a webcam thing. At the time, I used a Canon T7i. That was a bulky beast to use for a webcam, but it did work nicely for a while. The main thing I didn’t like about using the T7i was: It’s […]

Me: Figma should have individual borders. (May 2nd, 2022) Figma: Figma has individual borders. (May 10th, 2022)

This Twitter thread about NFT stuff bums me out. The spirit of it is supposed to be an exposé of The Real Life & Times of a web3 entrepreneur and how it ain’t all sunshine and roses, mann. I get that. We’re all allowed to learn and grow and share and have emotions. And clearly […]

This place is wild. Crack-in-the-Ground is an ancient volcanic fissure over 2 miles long and up to 70 feet deep. Normally, fissures like this one are filled with soil and rock by the processes of erosion and sedimentation. However, because it is located in such an arid region, very little filling has occurred and Crack-in-the-Ground […]

Mr. Kottke is taking a break! The plan, as it currently stands, is to take 5-6 months away from the site. I will not be posting anything new here. I won’t be publishing the newsletter. There won’t be a guest editor either — if someone else was publishing here, it would still be on my […]

… we all found out this month that the company is now on the cusp of going private again, at the hands of Elon Musk. Some people — although no employees I am aware of — seem to think this is the greatest news in the world. Some people think it’s the worst news they […]

I watched The Alpinist on a whim a few nights ago. I was pretty affected by it. Not so much by Marc-André Leclerc‘s death. That’s sad, but hey, you make the choice to do incredibly dangerous stuff, you are probably going to die from it. There was a bit in the movie that 50% of […]

By “everything important”, I mean hitting APIs. It’s not that I don’t think it’s a neat idea to pre-build and CDN-serve an HTML shell page and then make a fetch request for data that you then template and render (it’s kinda neat, good job kids). But don’t fool yourself into thinking you’re really a CDN-hosted […]

You gotta imagine 90%+ of work in Figma is website bound. And Figma does great stuff that makes elements more web-like, like the wonderful auto layout. But in CSS, we can easily control the borders on all four sides of an element with border. That’s border-top, border-right, border-bottom, and border-left, or with logical properties, border-block-start, […]