All and everything from this site in chronological order.
Kirby 4
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This week the next major release of Kirby, Version 4 saw the light of day. A while back I came across a post on Mastodon that mentioned the beta version of Kirby 4 being very stable already. I gave…
A Note in the Calendar
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Today on this glorious early winter day, a note showed up in my calendar. A little reminder on how quickly time flies, when you’re having fun. Or at least when one has a lot of things going on. The…
SVG Repo
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SVG Repo is a collection of 500.000+ Open-licensed SVG Vector and Icons, free to download for commercial use. Usually I'm not a huge fan of such libraries, as we mostly create our own to match a…
The Punctuation Guide
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On the never-ending quest to better writing, I came across The Punctuation Guide, which nicely explains when to use what punctuation—including a small section on the differences between American and…
Tiny Helpers - Free, Single-Purpose Tools
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Tiny Helpers is exactly what it says on the tin. A collection of free single-purpose online tools for web developers started and curated by Stefan Judis plus many of other people from the community.…
Bionic Reading
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I came across Bionic Reading on Twitter and their reading mode in the below example makes reading of the text block incredibly easier and a lot faster. The wonders of how our brains work. Bionic…
Predatory Community
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Quite a read on the NFT crypto space. A man sits at his computer and types out the story he has fabricated for the Fame Lady Squad NFT project: “we wanted to create an image of a strong and…
Priority Hints
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Priority Hints. What they are, how to implement them, plus a comparison of methods for loading and managing priorities of your assets. Currently these are only supported in Google Chrome, released…
CSS Contextual Spacing
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In Contextual Spacing For Intrinsic Web Design Stephanie Eckles talks about properties and functions for intrinsic design, which allow you to do some really nice things. You can get rid of using some…
Reluctant to New Things
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This thought has been triggered by On Design Thinking, an article with great points on where good design for the web has gone. It [Design Thinking] sold out Design in an attempt to impress those in…
Ahead of The Curve
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As developers (who are constantly learning and “operating” in the bubble) we are so far ahead of the curve. One of many such examples is that recently a friend told me about dark mode and how it…
Better Writing - Wrong Side of Write
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I’m always interested in resources to improve writing. This one is particularly good, and it has lots of useful tips which are written in a fun way. I recommend subscribing to the RSS feed. Visit…
The Web AIM Million
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Another one of those posts that have been getting comfortable in the Drafts… After Manuel mentioned it in this talk at BTConf yesterday, it’s a good time to eventually publish it. The WebAIM Million…
… when you're invisible - Webrocker
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Yesterday I have remotely “attended” the second day of Beyond Tellerrand Conference and it’s been fun. Obviously I would have preferred to attend in person, as this was the first edition in two…
103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
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This is a really great read, of which a lot and then some, resonated with me so much. Many people are scared of getting older, but it’s actually not that bad, because in the process, we’re gaining…
A Note on Notes
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A while ago, I had added a new TIL section to this site, which later turned into TILRS (today I learned, remember, share). I liked it a lot, and I posted all kinds of things in this section. Yet this…
Open Source Alternatives
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This is a neat site that offers open source alternatives to a lot of proprietary SaaS tools. I just tried it out; as I’m in the rather slow (and non-urgent) process of finding a new password manager…
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February, 2nd, 2022. A special day. A palindrome day. All twos. I couldn’t pass up on the opportunity to write a short post on this special date. Kinda fun. It’s also a good opportunity to start to…
Free for Developers
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Developers and Open Source authors now have a massive amount of services offering free tiers, but it can be hard to find them all to make informed decisions. A great resource for developers to find…
Better Text Decoration With CSS’ text-underline-offset
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I recently came across the text-underline-offset CSS property and I’m really surprised that I wasn’t aware that this fairly new property existed. There have been many times in the past where I wanted…
Starship Prompt - Displaying the GIT Branch in Terminal
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Ever since Apple released macOS Catalina in 2019 and changed the default shell to zsh across its operating system, I’ve been meaning to follow this move and change my default shell from the good old…
How Flexbox Works
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Unlike many parts of CSS, Flexible box layout or Flexbox can be difficult to understand just by using it. It wasn't until this most recent update of CSS Master that I even sort of grokked it.1 I hope…
Better RSS Titles
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I read a fair bit of blogs via RSS, for which I’m using News Explorer on macOS and iOS. When swiping through the articles or looking at the list of blogs in its sidebar, sometimes it’s difficult to…
Good Read: NFTs are so, so dumb
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Like most of what’s ruined the internet, NFTs started as a good idea. When the concept was demoed in 2014, it was presented as a way for digital artists to easily sell and control their work. But the…
Finding the Currently Focused Element
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When doing accessibility audits (or even daily web use), too often I come across sites that are missing focus styles. When navigating via keyboard, it can be difficult to see which element you are…