Archives: Notes

Styling fieldsets and legends is still the worst.

Reading @rachelandrew’s excellent article on box generation & I’m confused. Is the display:contents bug always a problem or fine to use on the semantically meaningless div & span elements? https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2019/05/display-box-generation/

If you really want your WordPress hook to run first, or just troll @rmccue, run it at priority PHP_INT_MIN * 200.

If that doesn’t run first, PHP_INT_MIN * PHP_INT_MAX.

And if that doesn’t run first…

Wow, no one was expecting the entire cast of GOT to be killed off in episode two and replaced with the Comedy Company’s original cast. That twist was beautiful.

I get irrationally annoyed when I see “waiting for xxxxxxxxx.cloudfront.net” as I visit a site. C’mon, have some professional pride and set up an alias on Route 53. It’s 50 cents!

A great post from @Dries acknowledging open-source isn’t a meritocracy allowing anyone to open a pull-request but is instead for a privileged few groups.

The APAC team at Human Made are doing Wear it like it’s Wednesday today (reverse casual Friday). I don’t mind saying, I look amazing.

Recommended custom styles for news sites:

html::before {
  content: "It's all terrible and depressing." !important;
  display: block !important;
  position: fixed !important;
  top: 0 !important;
  left: 0 !important;
  right: 0 !important;
  bottom: 0 !important;
  height: auto !important;
  max-height: none !important;
  width: auto !important;
  max-width: none !important;
  z-index: 999999 !important;
  background: black !important;
  font-size: 50px !important;
  font-family: impact !important;
  color: white !important;
  text-align: center !important;
  padding-top: 50px !important;
}

Developer buddies: hands up if you hear a project is using Jira and say to yourself “oh goody”. Hello? Anyone? So just me then.

I still can’t figure out which markdown flavour to use on any one screen, though.

Listening to @sciencevs Alcohol. Don’t burst my bubble, Zukerman!