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How about some accessibility quick hits! It’s a bit hard to keep track of when using certain CSS value types is bad. For a while, using pixel (px) values in media queries was considered a bad practice as the breakpoints didn’t trigger as expected when a user zoomed in. But then that changed, and media […]
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Chris’ Corner: Portals, Pages, Potential Polyfills, and the Pretty Reasonable
Maggie Appleton calls “Programming Portals”: Small, scoped areas within a graphical interface that allow users to read and write simple programmes brb updating all the marketing copy around here. I like how casually Brad Frost describes essentially all of web design. It all boils down to stuff and layout: The bulk of a design system’s […]
400: Hiatus
Marie and I jump on the show to tell y’all we’re taking a little break! It feels like years since we’ve been eluding to the fact that we’re working on a new major upgrade to CodePen. Rather than keep dancing around it, we’re going to minimize or remove working on anything that isn’t working on […]
Chris’ Corner: Trends, Beziers, and the Free Betterment of Subgrid
Cubic-bezier easings are part of what set apart really nicely done animations. I usually leave off the easing, which defaults to ease. Then I feel weird about it and try out keywords like ease-in or ease-in-out and they generally look weird or worse and stick with the default. But any really classy animation always seems […]
Blaze Slider
Gotta love a good slider component! There have been so many over the years. I made my own back in the day, using jQuery, called the AnythingSlider. I remember the Pei Wei website used it for a while and I knew I had made it haha. I think we see so many of these because […]
399: Data Munging
There was a small problem in our database. Some JSON data we kept in a column would sometimes have a string instead of an integer. Like {"tabSize": "5"} instead of {"tabSize": 5} of the like. Investigation on how that happened was just silly stuff like not calling parseInt on a value as it came off […]
Chris’ Corner: Overflow, Documents, and Visibility
Chen Hui Jing has a good point about testing small screens in the article The horizontal overflow problem, which is: did you actually test them? You might think you did because you squished your browser window all the way. But: The last I checked, Firefox stops at435px, Chrome stops at500pxand Safari stops at559px. That is, […]
398: DevOops
Stephen and I hop on the podcast to chat about some of our recent tooling, local development, and DevOps work. A little while back, we cleaned up our entire monorepo’s circular dependency problems using Madge and elbow grease. That kind of thing usually isn’t the biggest of deals and the kind of thing a super […]
Chris’ Corner: Dreamy, Folded, Bendy CSS
Yuan Chuan with a funny blog post opener commenting about how much they liked their friend’s photos: I was attracted by their slight blur and the subtle glowing effects, and wondered what kind of filter function was used. But then she told me it’s just because the camera lens wasn’t wiped clean. Turns out you […]
Rive
I’ve had the animation tool Rive on my list of bookmarks to check out for a while. I recently got around to making an account and giving it a shot. I was immediately interested in what the final output/export is. Because, of course, I want to know how I can use it… to connect it […]
Some Best-Ofs
Our Top Pens of 2022 has been out a few weeks now and it’s loads of fun. We tweeted and tooted the Top 10 to show them some extra love. I noticed Steve Gardner has put together a Hall of Fame Collection with some of the greatest Pens of All Time, and I gotta say […]
397: User-Generated Content Saftey
I was asked about the paradoxical nature of CodePen itself recently. CodePen needs to be safe and secure, yet we accept and gleefully execute user-authored code, which is like don’t-do-that 101 in web security. Marie and I hop on the show to talk this through as an update from quite a long time ago. It’s […]
The 2030 Self-Driving Car Bet
It’s my honor to announce that John Carmack and I have initiated a friendly bet of $10,000* to the 501(c)(3) charity of the winner’s choice:By January 1st, 2030, completely autonomous self-driving cars meeting SAE J3016 level 5 will be commercially available for
Updating The Single Most Influential Book of the BASIC Era
In a way, these two books are responsible for my entire professional career.With early computers, you didn’t boot up to a fancy schmancy desktop, or a screen full of apps you could easily poke and prod with your finger. No, those computers booted up to the command
Building a PC, Part IX: Downsizing
Hard to believe that I’ve had the same PC case since 2011, and my last serious upgrade was in 2015. I guess that’s yet another sign that the PC is over, because PC upgrades have gotten really boring. It took 5 years for me to muster
The Rise of the Electric Scooter
In an electric car, the (enormous) battery isa major part of the price. If electric car prices are decreasing, battery costsmustbe decreasing, because it’s not like the cost of fabricating rubber, aluminum, glass, and steel into car shapes can decline that much,
Electric Geek Transportation Systems
I’ve never thought of myself as a “car person.” The last new car I bought (and in fact, now that I think about it, thefirstnew car I ever bought) was thequirky 1998 Ford Contour SVT. Since then, we bought a
An Exercise Program for the Fat Web
When I wrote aboutApp-pocalypse Nowin 2014, I implied the future still belonged to the web. And it does. But it’s also true that the web has changed a lot in the last 10 years, much less the last 20 or 30.Websites have gotten
The Cloud Is Just Someone Else’s Computer
When we startedDiscoursein 2013, our server requirements were high:1GB RAMmodern, fast dual core CPUspeedy solid state drive with 20+ GBI’m not talking about a cheapo shared cpanel server, either, I mean a dedicated virtual private server with those specifications.We
The Cloud Is Just Someone Else's Computer
When we started Discourse in 2013, our server requirements were high: 1GB RAM modern, fast dual core CPU speedy solid state drive with 20+ GB I'm not talking about a cheapo shared cpanel server, either, I mean a dedicated virtual private server with those specifications. We were OK
What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up?
I sometimes get asked by regular people in the actual real world what it is that I do for a living, and here’s my 15 second answer:We built a sort of Wikipedia website for computer programmers to post questions and answers. It’s calledStack
There is no longer any such thing as Computer Security
Remember “cybersecurity”?Mysterious hooded computer guys doing mysterious hooded computer guy... things! Who knows what kind of naughty digital mischief they might be up to?Unfortunately, we now live in a world where this kind of digital mischief is literally rewriting the world’s history. For proof
To Serve Man, with Software
I didn’t choose to be a programmer. Somehow, it seemed,the computers chose me. For a long time, that was fine, that was enough; that was all I needed. But along the way I never felt that being a programmer was thisunambiguously great-for-everyone career field
The Existential Terror of Battle Royale
It’s been a while since I wrote a blog post, I guess in general, but also a blog post about video games. Video games are probablythe single thing most attributable to my career as a programmer, and everything else I’ve done professionally after that.
Hacker, Hack Thyself
We’ve read so many sad stories about communities that were fatally compromised or destroyed due to security exploits. We took that lesson to heart when we founded theDiscourseproject; we endeavor to build open source software that is secure and safe for communities by default,
Thunderbolting Your Video Card
When I wrote about The Golden Age of x86 Gaming, I implied that, in the future, it might be an interesting, albeit expensive, idea to upgrade your video card via an external Thunderbolt 3 enclosure. I'm here to report that the future is now. Yes, that's
Password Rules Are Bullshit
Of the many, many, many bad things about passwords, you know what the worst is? Password rules. If we don't solve the password problem for users in my lifetime I am gonna haunt you from beyond the grave as a ghost pic.twitter.com/Tf9EnwgoZv— Jeff Atwood