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Starting 2025 as I mean to continue …with a cat on my lap.
Athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh go léir a chairde!
CSS wants you to build a system with it. It wants styles to build up, not flatten down.
Truth!
Sunday session
Reading Earth Abides by George R. Stewart.
Nollaig shona daoibh go léir a chairde!
Playing Elizabeth Kelly’s Delight (slip jig) and Patsy Geary’s (jig) on mandolin with Jessica on fiddle:
https://thesession.org/tunes/953
Having a proper Cork Christmas with spiced beef, like!
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference between “blog” and “blog post” (as well as “podcast” and “podcast episode”).
- Violates User Expectations
- Causes Motion Sickness
- Reduces Accessibility for Disabled Users
- Inconsistent Performance Across Devices
- Impairs Usability for Power Users
- Increases Page Load Times
- Breaks Native Browser Features
- Makes Scroll Position Unclear
- Adds Maintenance Overhead
- Disrespects the User’s Control
Sunday session
Oh, this is a very handy service from Paul—given the URL of an RSS feed that only has summaries, it will attempt to get the full post content from the HTML.
Hanging out with a good doggo.
Reading The Fates by Rosie Garland.
Galway session
Going to Galway. brb
Wednesday session
Another handy list of where you can get works published by A Book Apart authors.
plainvanillaweb.com/blog/articles/2024-09-30-lived-experience/
I hold this truth to be self-evident: the larger the abstraction layer a web developer uses on top of web standards, the shorter the shelf life of their codebase becomes, and the more they will feel the churn.
helloanselm.com/writings/knowing-css-is-mastery-to-frontend-development
Anselm isn’t talking about becoming a CSS wizard, but simply having an understanding of what CSS can do. I have had similar experiences to this:
In the past years I had various situations where TypeScript developers (they called themselves) approached me and asked whether I could help them out with CSS. I expected to solve a complex problem but for me — knowing CSS very well — it was always a simple, straightforward solution or code snippet.
Let’s face it, “full stack” usually means “JavaScript”—HTML and CSS aren’t considered worthy of consideration. Their loss.
I miss A Book Apart, and I really miss An Event Apart—I made so many friends and memories through that conference. I admire Jeffrey’s honest account of how much it sucks when something so good comes to an end.
A complete digital archive of the famous typography from the Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
The lettering really is lovely!
In 2024, A Book Apart closed its doors after publishing a much-loved collection of more than 50 brief books for people who make websites. The rights to each book have reverted to the authors — hi, that’s us — and we’ve put together this semi-official directory to help you find our books in their new homes.
…now including Going Offline.
A shame that this must-read book won’t be out in time for Christmas—’twould make a great stocking filler for a lot of people I know.
A smart, incisive look at the technologies sold as artificial intelligence, the drawbacks and pitfalls of technology sold under this banner, and why it’s crucial to recognize the many ways in which AI hype covers for a small set of power-hungry actors at work and in the world.