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“Search Engine Optimization” Blech. I hate it. This is what SEO should be: And to be fair, that does work. That’s all I did at CSS-Tricks and was rewarded with decent traffic from Google for quite a long time. It was something like 75% of all traffic, so it was something I thought a lot […]

Redwoods, right? Coastal redwoods are the big boys! Super big. But wait, don’t people also say sequoias as in Giant Sequoias? Super big. Wait are they the same thing? Yes right? No. My kid loves NATURE BOOM TIME, and we both learned that these are totally different kinds of trees that never grow by each […]

A little while back, while noting that CSS is slated to solve the “auto-expanding <textarea>“ thing, I also briefly explained my favorite current solution. Simon Willison had a look and did a much deeper explanation of it, if you’re into such things. There is a little bummer with the technique — there’s… … a frustrating […]

Here’s another compelling reason to blog. I’ve seen the artificial urgency of tweets & toots bleed over into emotional essays on public mailing lists. New participants join a list and immediately make entitled demands. Fearful bordering on paranoid assumptions are used to state assertions of “facts” without citations. Arguments are made that appeal to emotion (argumentum ad […]

I’m a fan of the general advice of use subdomains, particularly for all those little projects we all cook up and want to put somewhere with a domain name we own and control. Subdomains instead of top-level domains, because: But are there reasons you shouldn’t use one? Of course. Here are a few:

Geoff wonders about “modern” CSS: …  but there’s got to be some way to refer to this specific moment in time where CSS has exploded with the richest set of features we’ve seen since… since… since… CSS3. I love that CSS specs are no longer versioned like that but we’re definitely starting to see a […]

We took a trip to Portland this past long weekend to hang with the inlaws. Portland is a complicated place and I’d hesitate to get into all that, but we had an awfully good time visiting. We stayed in the Nob Hill area, which is maybe the fanciest and least-weird of the areas? I didn’t […]

I just saw Stefan Bohacek made a WordPress plugin for Mastodon embeds. As Dave noted, the <iframe> for a Mastodon embed is very big, the resources aren’t cached across instances. With Stefan’s plugin, it brings the size way down, and I notice it’s not using an <iframe> at all which will help. A question to […]