Archives: Notes

  • Eventually everyone will create a new Markdown flavour and promote it as the source of truth.

  • Peter Dutton’s values 101:

    Just: imprisoning someone fleeing a war zone
    Unjust: deporting the middle class breaching their visa to work for his mates

    Just: bakers being homophobic
    Unjust: 70% of Australians disagreeing about the bakers

  • I find it surprising how many CSS articles reverse media queries incorrectly.

    To reverse @media (min-width: 5em)

    🚫 @media (max-width: 5em)
    @media not all and (min-width: 5em)

  • What was your first job out of high school?

  • Nothing slows you down working on a PR like finding code to work around a major bug you helped introduce.

  • I’d love to know how many CSS and markup fixes newsroom devs have deployed for their white-on-black home page leaders in the last few days.

  • Nudeing up and burning shit, I finally remember the align and justify axis without having to visit MDN. Every. Damn. Time.

  • Dear spammers, a heteronormative worldview is limiting your opportunity for profit.

  • Third party Twitter app users, particularly Tweetbot, has your battery life plummeted since the switch from the streaming API last week?

  • Cafe is playing Aretha. I’m working out how many albums I can sit on a coffee for.