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, […]
Maybe personal sites aren’t a real social media alternative for most people. I take Mia’s point: But I’m a nerd and have nerd friends with personal websites so we can simulate a social network with personal sites. At least a little bit. In a slower, more considered, more long-form kinda way. I still think the […]
Props to Cloudflare for their Worker Playground/Editor thing: Sorry for the giant desktop screenshot there, but I’m sure that’s how it’s meant to be used. It’s an information and interactivity dense experience. I bet not even that many people use it, because it’s kinda “cowboy coding” when you do. Serious usage of Workers is surely […]
There is a bit of a silver lining to someone being a dick to you: you never have to deal with them again! Farewell, hoss. I don’t have to listen to you. I don’t have to work with you. I don’t have to look at you. But with a bit of self-reflection there, that’s awfully […]
Jeremy: I would love it if someone could explain why they’re avoid native browser features but use third-party code. I can’t speak for the industry, but I have a guess. Third-party code (like the referenced Bootstrap and React) have a history of smoothing over significant cross-browser issues and providing better-than-browser ergonomic APIs. jQuery was created […]
It is surely irresistible clickbait to report “bad”, so grain of salt there, but all the headlines are like “bad”. Washington Post: Twitter workers face a reality they’ve long feared: Elon Musk as owner The Verge: What Twitter employees are saying about Elon Musk Time: Twitter Employees Have Spent Years Trying to Make the Platform […]
Will anybody ever need to copy and paste the text? Yes → don’t use all caps. Does it look kinda good in all caps? (Maybe use all caps, but test rule #1)
I’ve heard the guys on Dithering occasionally kinda poo-poo “5G”, that is, the next generation of cellular internet service. It’s already “rolling out” as they say, so if you happen to have a device that supports it on a carrier that supports in a region that that carrier offers 5G, maybe you’ve already experienced it. […]
Dave has asked that of every guest on ShopTalk for a decade. Now he’s got his own page to answer that question. On the last “version” of this site, I had a section like that (I called it “Things I want you to do”), but I’ve retired it for now. I’m so focused on CodePen […]
The effort-to-engagement ratio for content is unguessable.
I’ve been using Discord maybe… 18 months? A little bit of a latecomer. It’s a great service and has really displaced Slack for communities. Almost certainly because it’s free, inviting people is as simple as giving them a URL, and the permissions/moderation controls are good. I’m a member of a number of mostly tech-focused Discord […]