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Helping to get quality code into production as an interaction designer
My notes on how interaction designers can work with software developers and testers on agile delivery teams. I shared this earlier in the week and wanted to…
HTML & CSS for a One-Time Password Input
You know those One Time Password inputs? Typically 4 or 6 numbers, something like: Well I came across an article by Phuoc Nguyen about them called Build an OTP…
No JavaScript, No Problem
Last week, I pushed a big update to the Lean Web Club that removed all JavaScript dependencies. While most of the platform was server-rendered HTML stuff, some…
Feature detect CSS @starting-style support
The other day on Mastodon, Ryan wondered how hey can detect support for @starting-style. While in theory you could use @supports at-rule() for this, in practice…
Is AI part and parcel of web dev?
Over the last year+ I've seen AI quickly increase its dominance in the social feeds I follow. I know I'm in an echo chamber, but it feels like working on the…
Poisoning the AI well
AI is shit. There is no nuance to this for me. It steals other people’s work without permission, washes away copyright and attribution, and makes shit up. Most…
OKLCH for better color in the browser
Something that has always bugged me about CSS is the dullness of most gradients. You’d have this beautiful idea for your design, set up the gradient in your…
Surprising Facts About New CSS Selectors
I went down a bit of a rabbit-hole recently learning about CSS Nesting , specifically regarding the new & selector. I heard that it behaves like the :is()…
Vivaldi is quite good
Last year, I wrote about how all web browsers kind of suck. Every single one has turned into an AI-and-ad-driven piece of garbage. Amazing garbage that does…
Highlighting Blogging on Mastodon
In what looks like a very smart move, the team at Mastodon just released a very nice new feature for media organizations, journalists and bloggers: when someone…