I like it when physical addresses have a unit number at the end. Like: It reminds me of URLs with hashes, like: It’s really still the same overall place, it’s just a different part of that place. | Continue reading
The WordPress Admin screen where you look at Posts / Pages / Post Types can get really messy. In the table that shows the posts, a lot of stuff is on-by-default there and plugins can add more. In my experience, it has gravity toward looking like this: The trick is to pop down tha … | Continue reading
[Bender & Fry at Army Recruiting Office] Bender: Hello! We’re here because we, uh, love our planet. [Bender & Fry snickering] Army Guy: Sign here on the dotted line patriots, and I’ll give you your discount card. Fry: Just out of curiosity, we can use the cards to buy gum, then i … | Continue reading
By, uh, using other people’s CDNs. Step 1) Make a GitHub Repo And put files in it that you want CDNized URLs to. I don’t think GitHub likes it when you use them as a CDN. They provide a “raw” URL to files, but they serve the wrong content-type headers, so we can’t just use […] | Continue reading
GitHub Gists will do diffs. Make a file and save it. Then edit that file, and paste in the changed version. For me, this is often some crap I copied out of DevTools or some huge stringified object or something. Once it’s saved, the Revisions tab will say (2), and clicking it will … | Continue reading
I just needed to update the CodePen Embed Block WordPress Plugin. That means… DRUMROLL… using Subversion! I’ve long used Versions app to do Subversion things, because I just prefer using GUI-based source control apps. But Versions somewhat recently went v2, and I had to update my … | Continue reading
I do want to go to the rodeo though. It’s a big event around here and I’ve never been. | Continue reading
Fondly remembering the time a bunch of friends and I rented a house in Roslyn, Washington just because Northern Exposure was filmed there and we wanted to hang out at The Brick. I did not realize The Man in the High Castle was also partially filmed there, which was a pretty decen … | Continue reading
Piggy Piggy Hamster Hamster Darkwinged Fungus Gnat Darkwinged Fungus Gnat Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla Patty In real news, I didn’t realize she had died or that the stories just skip over the fact that Llama Llama has no dad (that’s a home-run article title rig … | Continue reading
We were preparing some rooms to be painted, removing things from the walls and tucking everything into a smaller room that didn’t need painting. Ruby took our little bike monster guy and was putting them in funny places and taking pictures of them. It got even more fun when she g … | Continue reading
Kevin Lutz at McSweeny’s: Now, you may be saying, “Aren’t you the party in power? Didn’t we already elect YOU? Shouldn’t YOU be doing something?” Yes, and I couldn’t be prouder to represent you in this fight. But I need you to understand three critical things: 1. Senator Palpatin … | Continue reading
A 2nd place winner for the C-SPAN StudentCam documentary season was a student from right down in Klamath Falls. Good job Linnea! We get it pretty bad up here in Bend, but they get it much worse down there, I hear. Here’s hoping for a better year than the last several. | Continue reading
Justin is leaving WP Tavern. Best of luck Justin! I love WP Tavern, it always seems to have the best and most relevant WordPress news to me. Sarah Gooding does a great job there too. Here’s hoping they can hire more writers to fill those big shoes. | Continue reading
I just want to make sure y’all understand how many raisins there aren’t in Raisin Bran: 1.75 scoops 2.2 scoops 1.333 (repeating) scoops π scoops −12i scoops VIII scoops 3 scoops There are this many scoops: 3√8 2! Two, there are two scoops people what about this is hard. please do … | Continue reading
Beer money. The first post¹ on CSS-Tricks was on July 4th, 2007. Not my first website, but probably in the first 10 or so. CSS-Tricks was originally supposed to be part of a network of sites that were all designed to be essentially self-help on a niche topic. That network (nothin … | Continue reading
Since I have the power to move mountains, I’m going to try again. Amazon, this is not a useful order confirmation email: It doesn’t tell me what I ordered. So: I don’t get a solid off-site confirmation of what I ordered. I can’t search my email to find that order. We’re coming up … | Continue reading
This one is for all my homies that don’t have big thoughts all the time. This one is for all you who go to work, do a good job, then go home and forget about it. This one is for all y’all who are too busy doing stuff to blog about it. Nah. You’ve got […] | Continue reading
I’ve had a lot of camping units in my life so far. I was a long-time tent guy until my tech life started affording me the finances to try other things. Here they are in the order I bought/sold them. The Volkswagen Westfalia Vanagon (2010-2012) The “Westy”, as owners typically cal … | Continue reading
A couple of years back I got into the whole use a DSLR as a webcam thing. At the time, I used a Canon T7i. That was a bulky beast to use for a webcam, but it did ultimately work rarely nicely for a while. The main thing I didn’t like about using the T7i […] | Continue reading
Me: Figma should have individual borders. (May 2nd, 2022) Figma: Figma has individual borders. (May 10th, 2022) | Continue reading
This Twitter thread about NFT stuff bums me out. The spirit of it is supposed to be an exposé of The Real Life & Times of a web3 entrepreneur and how it ain’t all sunshine and roses, mann. I get that. We’re all allowed to learn and grow and share and have emotions. And clearly [… … | Continue reading
This place is wild. Crack-in-the-Ground is an ancient volcanic fissure over 2 miles long and up to 70 feet deep. Normally, fissures like this one are filled with soil and rock by the processes of erosion and sedimentation. However, because it is located in such an arid region, ve … | Continue reading
Mr. Kottke is taking a break! The plan, as it currently stands, is to take 5-6 months away from the site. I will not be posting anything new here. I won’t be publishing the newsletter. There won’t be a guest editor either — if someone else was publishing here, it would still be o … | Continue reading
… we all found out this month that the company is now on the cusp of going private again, at the hands of Elon Musk. Some people — although no employees I am aware of — seem to think this is the greatest news in the world. Some people think it’s the worst news they […] | Continue reading
I watched The Alpinist on a whim a few nights ago. I was pretty affected by it. Not so much by Marc-André Leclerc‘s death. That’s sad, but hey, you make the choice to do incredibly dangerous stuff, you are probably going to die from it. There was a bit in the movie that 50% of [… … | Continue reading
By “everything important”, I mean hitting APIs. It’s not that I don’t think it’s a neat idea to pre-build and CDN-serve an HTML shell page and then make a fetch request for data that you then template and render (it’s kinda neat, good job kids). But don’t fool yourself into think … | Continue reading
You gotta imagine 90%+ of work in Figma is website bound. And Figma does great stuff that makes elements more web-like, like the wonderful auto layout. But in CSS, we can easily control the borders on all four sides of an element with border. That’s border-top, border-right, bord … | Continue reading
Maybe personal sites aren’t a real social media alternative for most people. I take Mia’s point: But I’m a nerd and have nerd friends with personal websites so we can simulate a social network with personal sites. At least a little bit. In a slower, more considered, more long-for … | Continue reading
Props to Cloudflare for their Worker Playground/Editor thing: Sorry for the giant desktop screenshot there, but I’m sure that’s how it’s meant to be used. It’s an information and interactivity dense experience. I bet not even that many people use it, because it’s kinda “cowboy co … | Continue reading
There is a bit of a silver lining to someone being a dick to you: you never have to deal with them again! Farewell, hoss. I don’t have to listen to you. I don’t have to work with you. I don’t have to look at you. But with a bit of self-reflection there, that’s awfully […] | Continue reading
Jeremy: I would love it if someone could explain why they’re avoid native browser features but use third-party code. I can’t speak for the industry, but I have a guess. Third-party code (like the referenced Bootstrap and React) have a history of smoothing over significant cross-b … | Continue reading
It is surely irresistible clickbait to report “bad”, so grain of salt there, but all the headlines are like “bad”. Washington Post: Twitter workers face a reality they’ve long feared: Elon Musk as owner The Verge: What Twitter employees are saying about Elon Musk Time: Twitter Em … | Continue reading
Will anybody ever need to copy and paste the text? Yes → don’t use all caps. Does it look kinda good in all caps? (Maybe use all caps, but test rule #1) | Continue reading
I’ve heard the guys on Dithering occasionally kinda poo-poo “5G”, that is, the next generation of cellular internet service. It’s already “rolling out” as they say, so if you happen to have a device that supports it on a carrier that supports in a region that that carrier offers … | Continue reading
Dave has asked that of every guest on ShopTalk for a decade. Now he’s got his own page to answer that question. On the last “version” of this site, I had a section like that (I called it “Things I want you to do”), but I’ve retired it for now. I’m so focused on CodePen […] | Continue reading
The effort-to-engagement ratio for content is unguessable. | Continue reading
I’ve been using Discord maybe… 18 months? A little bit of a latecomer. It’s a great service and has really displaced Slack for communities. Almost certainly because it’s free, inviting people is as simple as giving them a URL, and the permissions/moderation controls are good. I’m … | Continue reading
Here you go Charley you can have this one. Loving You (is like drinking alone) loving you is like drinking alone it’s like singing a song with no melody come on now let’s not drag this out don’t whine or pout just let me go loving you is like drinking alone it’s like strumming a … | Continue reading
I have a Toyota Tundra at the moment, but for the first time in my life, I’ve leased it, and that lease comes due in a couple of months. I’m going to finish the lease by buying the truck, since truck prices are so high it’s worth owning and gives me options for what to […] | Continue reading
Assume it was a mistake, not because they don’t know. Let them know the URL and exact location. Private not public. Offer to explain more if you really feel you must. | Continue reading
I saw Chris Glass post about a Katie Anderson tweet that’s just gold. There is a 1975 book Basic Computer Games (which you can read online in full) that literally shows 101 games in the classic programming language BASIC. Not just, like, a screenshot of the game, but the entire s … | Continue reading
Humans discover a new kind of force between matter that is usable. A new kind of magnetism, essentially. Except that we can manufacture both sides of the force relatively easily. It’s now the future, let’s call it 2060. The Earth is entirely covered in this “magnetic” grid of our … | Continue reading
I was going through some instrument cases this weekend and my mandolin case had some business cards in it from the ol’ band: I just blogged the other day about that raster-to-vector look: I remember when Adobe Illustrator CS2 dropped in 2005 it had a feature called “Live Trace” a … | Continue reading
Kathryn VanArendonk: … I watch the Australian children’s show Bluey with a mix of awe, wistfulness, love, and a dash of resentment. Feel that! I absolutely love Bluey and feel like I could hold my own in a very serious worldwide Bluey trivia contest. Literally every episode hits … | Continue reading
FinancialForce: … the team analyzed data from the 2016-2020 American Community Survey, an annual survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. They found the metropolitan and the micropolitan areas that had the highest rate of remote work-from-home jobs throughout the entirety of 2 … | Continue reading
Like Steve Albini did for Nirvana: … you might find yourselves in the position of being temporarily indulged by the record company, only to have them yank the chain at some point (hassling you to rework songs/sequences/production, calling-in hired guns to “sweeten” your record, t … | Continue reading
I gobbled up The Guided Age. I was a massive Downton Abbey fan so it was my sacred duty. And now I’m all like Crawley who? I admit I’m fascinated by the “historical look at America” angle, even though, as Brandon and his newsletter sweater weather point out, it’s not exactly conc … | Continue reading
Content warning: this is a very long boring travel story. I don’t really enjoy hearing other people’s bad travel stories, and you probably won’t enjoy this one. It was just so much, I feel this need to write it down. “You just go.” It was a split-second decision at the airport. W … | Continue reading