November 2022

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Astro stands to benefit highly from View Transitions

Same with any no-JavaScript-by-default framework like Eleventy, Jekyll, Hugo, and whatnot. Check out what Maxi Ferreira did with Astro: Cool. Although he had to slap in SPA navigation to make it work, because the current API only supports that, not normal “multi page” transitions. Once the View Transitions API gets MPA support, this (probably) going […]

Nutshell

Nicky Case made a thing called Nutshell: Nutshell is a tool to make “expandable, embeddable explanations” … This lets your readers learn what they need, just-in-time, always-in-context. I really like the look and feel of it, especially the little animated colons. I do feel like it needs an accessibility kick though. It doesn’t work without JavaScript […]

Get Your Most Favorited Tweets With Go

I wanted to find my most favorited tweets of all time. I figured I should know what those are so I can re-home them (or some version of their spirit) elsewhere in case the ol’ bird kicks the can. Turbulent times over there. Twitter has some built-in analytics tooling that I couldn’t quite figure out […]

Must… Click… Upgrade

Jon Yongfook: Just paid $75 (per month) to remove the “Upgrade Now” button from Slack. Never underestimate how much a B2B customer armed with a corporate card will pay to solve a minor inconvenience. It me. And I dislike it about myself but it’s true. Just a dumb little upgrade banner in an app, even […]