One of the joys of working in web development is a lot of content relevant to your interests ends up, well, on the web. In particular, a lot of conferences offer online tickets. 99 times out of 100, I go online. But yesterday, I attended State of the Browser in person.
I’ve watched my sister put out a beautiful display of perfectly non-choke-able sized toys and games for her 18-month-old child to play with. Know what the Kid does?
I've seen a huge benefit in switching from selector-based to inheritance-based theming at work. CSS custom properties have been the key to unlocking a more flexible and scalable system.
I used to have Tim Gunn's catchphrase in my head during CSS development. A steady, insistent echo of “Make it work” encouraged me to brute force a lot of styles into place, condemning myself to a frustrating cycle of fixing something here only to find it was now broken there.
I have mixed thoughts on International Women's Day, perhaps best encapsulated by the gender pay gap bot that notes discrepancies between a company's social media messages and real-world actions.
This is a catch-all post for a bunch of miscellaneous updates I've
been meaning to do since last April: rel=me, microformatting, RSS, and
garden bird themes.