Neil Mather

Sep 21, 2020, 3:16 PM -04:00

I finished A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers recently. I loved it. There’s something very lovely about Becky Chambers’ sci-fi – it’s much more touching and emotional than a lot that I’ve read. I felt quite emotional at the ending of this one – it’s so full of heart and compassion.

Free Woodworking Plans to Build a Twin Low Loft Bunk Bed

The Design Confidential Free DIY Furniture Plans to Build a Twin Sized Low Loft Bunk Now, I am going to assume most of you have kiddos…or will have kiddos…or your kiddos have grown and have their own kiddos..either way I know this will excite you because the project I will share with you retails for more than $1300 when you add up all of the extras. Can I tell you how much I spent on this from start to finish? $118 TOTAL including an entire gallon of Zinc by Martha Stewart for H...

Jan-Lukas Else

Jul 9, 2020, 9:00 AM -04:00

How my blogroll gets generated (now completely automatic!)

Yesterday I teased a new post about how I automated my blogroll generation by writing a Go script and using the Miniflux API. Here it is.Up until yesterday, I always updated my blogroll manually. I wrote about that process here. It was a bit of automation but not completely automated. I fixed that and now do what Robert van Bregt suggested or what Jan Boddez does with his WordPress plugin.To generate my site I use a self-hosted instance of Drone CI (I already wrote about that a few times) wit...

Neil Kakkar

Sep 5, 2020, 7:00 PM -04:00

Things I Learned to Become a Senior Software Engineer

In 2018, I started working at Bloomberg. Things have changed a lot since. I’m not the most junior member in the company anymore and I’ve mentored quite a few new engineers, which has been amazing. It helped me observe how others differ from me, absorb their best practices, and figure out things I’ve unconsciously been doing pretty well. Yearly work reviews are a good way to condense these lessons I’ve learned. They’re valuable for pattern matching, too. Only when I zoom out do certain patte...

Jeremy Cherfas

Aug 30, 2020, 11:30 AM -04:00

Structured data for book reviews

Bookshelves crammed with lots of books Almost a week ago, I noted a blog post by Ana Ulin: Adding Structured Book Data to My Blog Posts. Ana added a section to the front matter of her book posts that contains information about the book in question, including her rating. She was kind enough to share her example and the partial template that displays the information on her site. Because I use Grav rather than Hugo as my CMS I couldn’t just steal Ana's template, but I was more than happy to ba...

A Soft Murmur

A Soft Murmur

Mix ambient sounds together to wash away distraction and help you focus or relax

Vincent Pickering

From Indieweb Monolith to Microservices

Blog Redesign - Part 5

LogRocket Blog

A guide to theming in CSS - LogRocket Blog

This tutorial shows you how to create apps that are theme-aware using CSS variables and JavaScript to enable a better presentation.

The amazing power of service workers

Today, I want to talk about service workers: what they are, and when and why you’d use them I won’t be digging into code specifics today. This one is going to be a lot more high level that looks more at strategies and approaches. I will be sharing code details in some future articles. Let’s dig in. What is a service worker? A service worker is a special type of JavaScript file that browsers install and store locally.

Interconnected, a blog by Matt Webb

How would I improve RSS? Three ideas

Posted on Wednesday 29 Jul 2020. 1,702 words, 7 links. By Matt Webb.

Gatsby

The World’s Sneakiest Route Change | Gatsby

The story of how we added dynamic filtering to an entirely statically-built Gatsby site.

Jeremy Keith

Jul 16, 2020, 10:45 AM -04:00

Hey now

Progressive enhancement is at the heart of everything I do on the web. It’s the bedrock of my speaking and writing too. Whether I’m writing about JavaScript, Ajax, HTML, or service workers, it’s always through the lens of progressive enhancement. Sometimes I explicitly bang the drum, like with Resilient Web Design. Other times I don’t mention it by name at all, and instead talk only about its benefits. I sometimes get asked to name some examples of sites that still offer their core functiona...

Matthias Ott

May 12, 2019, 7:05 AM -04:00

Into the Personal-Website-Verse

Social media in 2019 is a garbage fire. What started out as the most promising development in the history of the Web – the participation of users in the creation of content and online dialogue at scale – has turned into a swamp of sensation, lies, hate speech, harassment, and noise. Your Unfriendly Neighborhood Craving for attention and engagement, our timelines have changed. Algorithms now prioritize content from people with a huge following and everything that is loud and outrageous. It’...

What is CSS Specificity?

CSS specificity is an important topic to understand if you want to get better at CSS. . In this article, we discuss what CSS specificity is and how it is used to determine which styles are applied to an element.

A little bit of plain Javascript can do a lot

I’ve never worked as a professional frontend developer, so even though I’ve been writing HTML/CSS/JS for 15 years for little side projects, all of the projects have been pretty small, sometimes I don’t write any Javascript for years in between, and I often don’t quite feel like I know what I’m doing. Partly because of that, I’ve leaned on libraries a lot! Ten years ago I used to use jQuery, and since maybe 2017 I’ve been using a lot of vue.js for my little Javascript projects (you can see a ...

CSS-Tricks

In Defense of a Fussy Website | CSS-Tricks

The other day I was doom-scrolling twitter, and I saw a delightful article titled “The Case for Fussy Breakfasts.” I love food and especially breakfast, and

Matthias Ott

Jun 28, 2020, 8:06 PM -04:00

Fussy Web, True Meaning.

Sarah Drasner just published a fabulous article, In Defense of a Fussy Website, in which she makes the case that we should all design and build websites again that are a joy to visit. Sites with those little details that make you smile, with small delights and touches that really make users stay. When a site is done with care and excitement you can tell. You feel it as you visit, the hum of intention. The craft, the cohesiveness, the attention to det...

Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web - Neustadt.fr

Global and Component Style Settings with CSS Variables

– The personal website of Sara Soueidan, inclusive design engineer

Rediscovering the Small Web - Neustadt.fr

Alex Ellis' Blog

Deploy your own faasd appliance with cloud-init

In less than 5 minutes flat, we'll deploy our own faasd appliance to DigitalOcean and start deploying containers built for OpenFaaS, but without Kubernetes