2019

All my posts from 2019.

  24. Accessible Color Spaces - Color Contrast Tool

    🔖 This is such an amazing tool for visualising colour and contrast that’ll help you confidently meet your accessibility requirements. It...
  118. ↩️ In reply to Justin Avery
    ✍️ I’d consider myself a beginner; I found it very approachable, and it strengthened my core JS knowledge, making me more confident to explore more advanced topics. I think it’s best...
  120. ↩️ In reply to Andy Bell
    ✍️ I’ve been thinking about this ever since you posted it, and this realisation resonates really strongly with me. Coding is a means to an end for me now, rather than...
  147. ✍️ Interesting. Everyone who insists I should be more involved and interested in politics seems to have a very specific context they want me to get involved in. Almost like they...
  187. ✍️ Shout-out to @codefundio (https://codefund.io) for their fantastic service and above-and-beyond team. I cannot state strongly enough how kind and understanding they are—they get the highest possible recommendation from me!

  252. Reply Targets

    Providing a useful context to content written in response to someone else’s blog post, tweet, toot, etc. helps a reader...
  253. ↩️ In reply to a previous note
    ✍️ I think I’m going to try to make this happen. For a long time I have been building my site on a mostly vanilla Jekyll set-up as an example of...
  265. ✍️ I would love to try switching my site from @jekyllrb onto @eleven_ty, but it looks like such a huge undertaking, as I have heavily customised the way I use Jekyll...
  305. ✍️ Another 🐇 🕳 idea… Input a YouTube channel URL → The channel’s Atom feed is added to your Microsub “YouTube” channel. YouTube subscriptions without a Google account. No idea how...
  307. ↩️ In reply to Bridging the Indieweb and the Fediverse with Bridgy Fed, part 1 by Neil Mather
    ✍️ Neil, this is both remarkably well-written and informative! I have to agree with all the points you’ve raised, particularly about the high barrier to entry for non-technical folks wanting to...
  323. ↩️ In reply to Ana Rodrigues
    ✍️ I definitely have improvements to make, but at present I use the Twitter API to create a tweet, and I pull the URL of the tweet from the response into...
  324. ↩️ In reply to Jacky Alciné
    ✍️ That’s totally fair—I think development can and should be a joy wherever possible! I don’t think that strict adherence to a standard trumps happiness—I think the opposite—but I do often...
  327. ✍️ I still fail to see what benefits arise from shortened variable names. Why is “currPag” preferable to “currentPage”, “btn” preferable to “button”? Without context, I’m guessing what the author intended...

  340. How Not To Sort By Average Rating – Evan Miller

    🔖 PROBLEM: You are a web programmer. You have users. Your users rate stuff on your site. You want to put...

  353. An Illustrated (and Musical) Guide to Map, Reduce, and Filter Array Methods

    🔖 I’ve struggled for a little while to wrap my head around these new methods, but this article by Una Kravets...

  354. Sophisticated Partitioning with CSS Grid

    🔖 Equally as impressive as Rob Weychert’s ’Tinnitus Tracker’ is the CSS Grid that powers it. This article and accompanying code...

  356. 1% Better • Robin Rendle

    🔖 This really resonates with me—too often I’ve planned or been part of planning a big project that fizzles out and...

  387. Sparkline Sound-Off

    🖼️ I have been following in the footsteps of Jeremy Keith for a few months now. Dotted around my website, now...
  409. ↩️ In reply to Dom Patmore
    ✍️ I find the non-self-hosted version of @1Password really clean and easy to use on both my laptop and phone. Although it’s not free, I don’t mind paying a bit for...

  479. CSS doesn’t suck

    🔖 Front-end communities have been up-in-arms recently about CSS’s shortcomings (and how they compare to JS’s shortcomings, for example). I think...

  485. Chrono Trigger: Secret of the Forest - Reuben Gingrich

    🔖 I’m clearly cruising on a Chrono Trigger vibe because, again, I need to share some music by some unquestionably-talented musicians...