Notes

biggest win for semantic HTML? It’s just waaaay easier to type <button> and be done with it than to try and bolt shit on a div with lots of attributes and JS. With everything you get for free, why would you want to do all that extra work?

RT twitter.com/AdamRackis/status/1109526799455784960

Usually, when writing print CSS, you would want to omit background-color declarations to improve readability (and save ink).

I had a case at work today though where I actually needed them to print. It was used in some progress indicators that didn’t make any sense without it. But some browsers ignore background-color by default in print, unless the user selects otherwise.

If you absolutely have to override that, there’s -webkit-print-color-adjust: exact.
It only works in Chrome and Safari though.

-webkit-print-color-adjust on MDN

TIL there’s a media query for display-mode, triggered i.e. when a PWA is launched from the homescreen in standalone mode.
via Google Developer Web Fundamentals

While I applaud the new wave of people publishing on their own blogs, I still feel this is too hard to do for non-tech folks. Here’s what I’d love to see:

A platform that includes

• free hosting
• the ability to buy a custom domain
• a simple CMS for writing posts
• an integrated RSS feed reader to “follow” your friends
• a “content stream” showing recent posts of blogs you subscribed to
• webmention support - see reactions to your post
• the ability to get it all up and running without ever touching code

I think Netlify / NetlifyCMS checks a lot of these boxes, but still requires some tech knowledge, i.e. you need to have a git repo and understand some of the basic concepts (“deploy”, “build”, “static”…)

Ideally, I’d like a page with a big “start your own blog” button, and a process that’s just as easy as signing up for Facebook.

Ever wanted to inspect some UI that only appears on specific interactions? Run window.setTimeout(() => {debugger}, 5000) in the devtools console: page will freeze in 5 seconds.

The internet used to be a weird funny place, and a lot more people just hacked stuff together. Can we get that back? https://jarredsumner.com/codeblog/

Sometimes I wonder if any other profession fights as much as developers. You think bakers frequently get into arguments on how everybody “is doing flour wrong”?

“Called ‘a map of deadbeat debtors’, this app allows users to find out whether there are any people in debt within 500 meters.” … China is really running with every dystopian idea they can find. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201901/16/WS5c3edfb8a3106c65c34e4d75.html

Using CSS to track user data: https://www.templarbit.com/blog/2018/03/20/tracking-users-with-css/ - once again proving that any technology can and will be exploited for bad intentions.

Support for CSS Custom Properties is really good, so I want to start using them more! I’m getting my feet wet by building a dark mode for my blog - looks good! (click the 🌙 in footer to switch)