November 2022

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Icon Set Nostolgia

I think Daniel Bruce’s Entypo was the first icon set designed for the web that I fawned over. Maybe it was how it had a cool name, almost like it was a startup product. And the website design around it was awesome. The 2012 design was pretty fresh, especially for that time: Then a 2014 […]

A Brief and Probably Only Partially Correct History of CSS Nesting

2006: Sass was invented. Has nesting. All subsequent CSS processors have nesting (Less: 2009; Stylus: 2010). 2011: Tab says Chrome engineers already dabbling with CSS nesting. 2011: (Lost to time?) First Editor’s Draft appears actually called “CSS hierarchies”. Lennart Schoors has a blog post mentioning it and says it was in conjunction with Shane Stephens […]

Local By Flywheel has Fancy Headless WordPress Scaffolding

Local By Flywheel makes running a local WordPress site trivially easy. I just got a marketing email from them saying that there is a plugin for Atlas now, which is their parent company WP Engine’s product for running “Headless” WordPress. Headless, meaning the front-end of the site isn’t HTML produced from PHP directly, it’s some […]