October 2023

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A Couple of New CSS Functions I’d Never Heard Of

light-dark() Saw Bramus post about this. Apparently, this is just a first step on the way toward a more robust schemed-value() function that can handle more than just those two themes and more than just colors. Still useful! Without light-dark(), we need to use media queries and it’s more laborious: Browser support as I write: […]

A Good, Paywalled Article

The story The Town With a Song in Its Heart in the New York Times (warning: probably paywalled, but I did try to use a “gift link”) is one of those articles that is made for me. It’s a story about some little town I’ve never heard of, beautiful and full of charm, that takes […]

Questions for Conversation

A friend has a go-to question for a conversation starter, particularly among business colleagues: What’s a business you admire? He runs Frontend Masters and without blowing smoke, I’d put that on the list. They run a good ship over there. Let’s see what else. I’m a Kwik Trip guy for sure. I hate to make […]

A Digital Color’s Journey

Let’s say you were looking at a sunset with your eyeballs. You loved all the shades of orange that were happening. So orange! You took a photo with your modern digital camera. Later, you get the photo off your digital camera on your computer. You like post-processing your photos, so you used Adobe Lightroom to […]