Oh man! I just learned that CSS Style Dictionaries include aliasing and take care of flatting down source tokens! I had no idea and now I'm completely sold.
#CSS
Sass vs Vanilla CSS, which one do you prefer?
I used to use SASS but for the last 5+ years Iβve gone back to Vanilla CSS. I miss a few things, but for the most part, regular CSS works for all the things I want to do.
Also, while I don't feel like I'm "allergic" to frameworks, I find myself no longer assuming one is needed. I'm still not sure how I feel about LLMs, yet, but I wonder if I'll come to the same place eventually.
This post by @adactio.com says a lot of things that I'm thinking about as a web developer these days. It's a really great blog post.
adactio.com/journal/22399
You know that annoying experience on mobile websites where you need to find the little close button and can't swipe a menu closed?
The solution is simpler than you think.
With basic CSS scroll APIs, you can get built-in interruptible swipe gestures π₯³
And here's a video of my progress talked about in this post:
youtu.be/_Ba_9yV6D7k
πΆπ‘ A new maker blog post is up! Here's a project that helped me get acquainted with WLED and a new generation of microcontrollers.
wbrowar.com/article/maker/pet...
#WLED #LED #maker #DIY
A LED strip glued to a 3D print and a piece of wood
Almost done with my first LED project in a while and this was a ton of fun to put together. Here's a WIP shot from earlier today when I finally got it all powered up!
#led #maker
Okay, so for EVs I'm all for "dumb" chargers that just provide power, but swapping out our home charger with one that keeps our history and estimates our charging costs based on our utility plan is nice. It's saying that based on the kW usage, my wife and I drove 2 cars all of January for $28!
#EV
A 3D-printed enclosure that looks like a Mac mini. The Apple logo on top has glow-in-the-dark filament to bring back the glowing effect that those cowards at the fruit company won't do!
A button on the side of the enclosure.
The enclosure with its top off, showing the ESP32 board and some wiring.
I crossed a maker threshold today: 3D printed an enclosure for an ESP32 to hook up to my LED test strip. Where do I go to collect my badge?
#maker #LED
I just learned about this three.js course and everything about it, including the homepage, looks fantastic!
threejs-journey.com/#bruno-simon
#threejs #webdev
A phot of two books and a slip cover. The books are the Mark Hoppus autobiography and a separate book of photos.
I got a thing πΈπ
WLED is amazing! This is so much easier to do than it was ~15 years ago. #maker
Just got to my LED Hello, World! #maker
Oh, hey new Goldfinger album π€
My wife and I just caught up on the first season of The Pitt and we both really liked it. Now that the second season is a couple of episodes in, I think we're going to wait until we can binge the whole season. Waiting a whole week between episodes seems like it'll be tough to do with this show.
I know I'm an old now and my music is now considered Classic Rock, but it also means easier access to shows.. I just got literally front row tickets to Blues Traveler/Gin Blossoms πΈοΏΌ
I came up with an idea for a little electronics project and it's fun diving back into LEDs and microcontrollers. There are also a ton more choices out there than Arduino and Raspberry Pi for the thing I'm thinking of doing.
Made it to the end of Stranger Things. Which I'm glad because now people can stop yelling at me.
Heh a friend of mine told me that this was my version of a Sizzle Rizzle (a la @nerdy.dev). Maybe I can brush up on some video editing skills and put something together..
A couple weeks ago I found a stash of screenshots and videos of some of my earlier web development work so I wrote a bunch of blog posts to share them. It was fun to go back in time and remember these projects!
wbrowar.com/article/code/webs...
#WebDesign #WebDev #Flash #HTML #CSS #Drupal #CraftCMS
I've been doing an incredible amount of writing over the past week and I can't wait to share it. Okay break over and back to it!
Looking good with the anchor positioning stuff, Firefox.
Regarding the Apple Creator thing, I was hoping there would be an Aperture-like app when this was announced. What I'm hoping for now is they just make Photos better and kick it out to Pixelmator for editing?
I just found a cache of screenshots and videos from web projects I worked on almost 20 years. Some of it is so cool and a reminder of some of the awesome collaborations I've had at the time. Others are exactly what you might expect from 2008 web design..
Need to figure out a good way to share this.
A wooden desktop with a speaker, computer, touch pad, and digital phot frame on it.
My Aura frame came in and it looks great! I'm surrounded by amazing OLED and HDR screens but something about how photos look on this matte screen is really nice.
I think I might pick one up for myself and put it in my office.
We got an Aura frame for my Mom for Christmas and I think it's as awesome as it was hyped up to be.
The color looks great and I really like that instead of it being a touch screen there's a little touch-sensitive bar at the top where you can swipe and tap to do things with the on-screen UI.
A blue jay sitting on a bird feeder
Two blue jays eating from a bird feeder
The birds are back in town!
#birds
