After an early morning walk around a very quiet Centro Historico, where I stumbled upon a discotheque, still pumping a cross between Mariachi and Techno, the patrons tried to persuade me to join them.
When I returned Susan and I jumped into an Uber to find Dave’s home bread ...
After a long (14 hour) flight via Toronto we eventually got to our hotel at 12:30 in the morning and went straight to bed exhausted.
After a few hours sleep we had some breakfast at the hotel, mediocre.
We then went to find coffee and cash, around the corner 40m from our hot...
Two things happened today (1 April 2024):
I listened to episode 609 of Shoptalk Show
Second I read Don't modernize your code just for the heck of it.
I'm a big fan of both the podcast and Chris's daily developer newsletter.
Today the kind of both told a similar message. S...
In this post by Hidde and Scott they explain in great detail what the browser does and doesn't do when using the popover attribute.
On popover accessibility: what the browser does and doesn’t do
Last night I went to see Yard Act at Hammersmith Apollo. This was the second time this year seeing them, the first was at Pryzm Kington for their Album launch of Where's my Utopia.
Last nights gig was brilliant and I'd rate it 5/5. The band were on top form and the crowd wer...
Firefox now supports, the longhand properties of text-wrap, text-wrap-mode and text-wrap-style
The only browser to currently do so.
shorthand property
longhand properties
Examples
While documenting this I sneaked in the classic CSS meme.
The <head> HTML element helps describe to the browser what is going on in a web page. Here I describe what those things are, what they do, and why they are important.
The essentials
The following tags must be in the <head> and in the correct order.
character set
...
While designing my new site, I am first focussing on mobile first strategy, I want to learn and showcase ideas.
So I have decided that I want to animate the menu on mobile to make best use of the screen. Here is a small video of what I'm trying to achieve.
Logo starting poi...
So I've now started building a new site for a company that I am setting up and I wanted to make sure that the favicon is an SVG.
What is a favicon
A favicon is a small image that sits in the tab of your browser, usually the company logo.
Example of favicons, this shows BB...
Well, when I say built, what I actually meaning is building.
By no means is this blog finished and I don't expect it to be finished anytime soon, if ever.
So why have I built (building) this:
Writing
So I can write about what I'm passionate about, you know:
Music
Food
Books...
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