Input Masking
If you’ve ever watched old sci-fi flicks, you know how powerful loops can be. Feed your robot nemesis an infinite loop, and kaboom. Robo dust.
#191: Learn by doing: CUBE CSS
He was working on a new, world class operating system. He and a few other colleagues were building it from the ground up … Read article “Chapter 2: Browsers”
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Dennis Ritchie had a problem.
Halfmoon: A Bootstrap Alternative with Dark Mode Built In
Sir Tim Berners-Lee creates the technologies behind the web — HTML, HTTP, and the URL which blend hypertext with the Internet — with a small team at CERN. He convinces the higher-ups in the organizations to put the web in the public domain so anyone can use it.
Practical Use Cases for JavaScript’s closest() Method
The other day, I spotted this particularly lovely bit from Corey Ginnivan’s website where a collection of cards stack on top of one another as you scroll.… Read article “Stacked Cards with Sticky Positioning and a Dash of Sass”
Chapter 2: Browsers
The gap property in CSS is a shorthand for row-gap and column-gap, specifying the size of gutters, which is the space between rows and columns within grid, flex, and multi-column layouts.
Stacked Cards with Sticky Positioning and a Dash of Sass
Replicating, debugging, setting up the local environment was interesting, difficult, and meaningful.… Read article “What I Learned by Fixing One Line of CSS in an Open Source Project”
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I was browsing the Svelte docs on my iPhone and came across a blaring UI bug. The notch in the in the REPL knob was totally out of whack. I’m always looking to contribute to open source, and I thought this would be a quick and easy fix. Turns out, there was a lot more to it than just changing one line of CSS.
What I Learned by Fixing One Line of CSS in an Open Source Project
But let’s say there is no scrollbar. That’s super common. macOS hides scrollbars by default and only shows them during scroll. Most mobile browsers don’t have … Read article “That’s Just How I Scroll”
That’s Just How I Scroll
How do you know a page (or any element on that page) scrolls? Well, if it has a scrollbar, that’s a pretty good indication. You might still have to scrapple with your client about “the fold” or whatever, but I don’t think anyone is confused at what a scrollbar is or what it indicates.