anchor positioning solves what would otherwise be major headaches. with two lines of code!
Mayank
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front-of-the-front end developer. usually writing CSS or listening to prog (or both). they/them
is it normal to make a website just to show my hair stylist so they fully understand what i want them to do with my hair?
one of my favorite code snippets that i've written: *:focus-visible { &:not(#a#b) { /* inflating specificity */ outline-style: solid !important; outline-width: 2px !important; } } placed outside all layers, and intentionally not using the `outline` shorthand for easier customization.
so done with rounded corners. give me pointy corners. give me razor-sharp "wear a glove before you press it" corners.
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tidal keeps updating their UI seemingly every other day, and yet large parts of it remain untouched and broken. so many design issues just in this one little screenshot.
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too much good stuff is locked behind login (or worse, behind app stores). a few years ago, i would shake my head furiously. today, i still do that, but at the same time i get it because of all these fucking bots :/
looks like we're about to find out how much of a community project deno is
accidentally clicked the copilot button in Outlook and now i need to take a shower
what's the difference between these two lines of code? the first one imports the styles into a layer named css_is_awesome. the second one imports the styles into an anonymous layer if `@media (css_tooling_sucks)` matches. i've lost so many hours to this over the years.
currently listening to Lauren Babic's EP "Too Much and Never Enough", released almost one year ago. laurenbabic.bandcamp.com/album/too-mu... some incredibly powerful vocals throughout the EP, and of course this seriously disgusting opening riff in "Let It Die": www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi7r...
Lauren Babic – Let It Die (Official Music Video)
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this is both unreasonably fun and made me realize my screen is nasty. my score: 0.0033
What's My JND?
Find your Just Noticeable Difference in colour perception. How small a colour difference can you actually see?
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don't like semicolons? you can punctuate your css with exclamation marks instead! p { color: hotpink! important}
this year i'm going to write at least one print stylesheet 🖨️ (i've never written one before!)
this article perfectly captures the kind of system i've been building for myself: an always-on computer that runs a bunch of services which can only accessed within the local network. goodinternetmagazine.com/whats-a-home...
What's a Home Lab and why do you need one?
There is an overarching belief that most things we want to do on the internet can only be accomplished by signing up for accounts with big technology companies. While it is true that a quick and dirty...
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<link rel="icon" href="data:," /> adding this line to all my starter templates to fix those pesky 404s.
this looks wonderful! new tech tends to be pretty uninspiring, so why not look towards old tech?
Aftermath@aftermath.site · 6mo agoA Digital Audio Player renewed my love of music: aftermath.site/digita-audio-p...
the week has barely started but my open tabs are piling up fast 😬 (i like to close my browser at the end of the day)
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i built a micro-site that shows what i've been listening to! it periodically pulls music data from my last.fm obsessions.mayank.co