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I've been trying to figure out what it is I love about these classless (or even low-class) CSS “frameworks,” but I still can't quite put my finger on it. Anyway, here are some of my favorites so far. Please send me yours if you have any.

- Simple.css https://simplecss.org/
- Water.css https://watercss.kognise.dev/
- awsm.css https://igoradamenko.github.io/awsm.css/
- holiday.css https://holidaycss.js.org/usage/
- GDCSS https://gdcss.netlify.app/
- Neat https://neat.joeldare.com/
- Typesafe https://tdarb.org/typesafe-css/

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For the time being, I am using Craft which has some flaws but does work pretty well with the Accessibility Keyboard.

(If you don't know what that is, it is a built-in onscreen keyboard in macOS.)

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I would love to give Obsidian a real try but there is a very obscure bug that prevents me from using many of the fancy web-based editors.

For some reason, when using certain web based editors (including Slack and Discord), the macOS Accessibility Keyboard completely stops offering word prediction, leaving me to click one letter at a time, with no completion support.

I suspect it has to do something with `contenteditable` because the problem doesn't occur in regular inputs.

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I’m becoming obsessed with classless CSS frameworks. Anyone got any to recommend? I’m especially looking for the deep cuts, as I already know about the popular ones (eg, Water, Simple).

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If AI ever figures out how to create believable hands in images, that's the beginning of the end for us.

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Every now and again I come across a web article written in a beautiful serif font.

“Ooh, who are you?” I mumble under my breath.

I inspect it in devtools only to find out it’s Georgia.

Gets me every time.

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You can shame me for unsubscribing from your marketing spam, but you can’t win. With each opt-out I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.

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Yay!

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Testing status.log app’s Mastodon connection.

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I am thinking it’s a sign that the freckles in our eyes are mirror images and when we kiss they perfectly align.

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What site generators do people like for user guides and documentation?

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I made an old man rant on social.lol about scrollbars and it became my most popular social media post ever. Gives me warm fuzzies that so many others care about this humble-yet-powerful UI control.

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@ranylt@wandering.shop @kagan Yes. So with Discord I can’t really use the “native” app because of the scrollbar situation there. So I use it in the web browser with the ScrollAnywhere extension installed.

This extension lets me scroll, uh, anywhere by clicking and dragging the page as if on a mobile device. It’s really handy and I wish I could install it at the OS level.

https://fastaddons.com/#scroll_anywhere

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Ok so I'm watching Babylon 5 now and it's all @ghoulpus’s fault.

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Upgraded all of my internet gear down to the ethernet cables. Hopefully this finally solves the terrible coverage in my house. But why do these fancy routers need to look like alien tech from sci-fi?

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I had scrollbars on the brain and I’m trying to write more, so here are some thoughts about the mighty scrollbar as a slowly dying UI control. #WebDev #a11y #ui #design

https://blakewatson.com/journal/neglecting-the-scrollbar-a-costly-trend-in-ui-design/

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The opening keyboard synths on Everything In Its Right Place. Bliss I tell you. https://open.spotify.com/track/2kRFrWaLWiKq48YYVdGcm8?si=486878dc56ed43be

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Anyone who uses or knows about screen readers… do they support scrollbars decently? Do they announce anything about length of the page or your current location on a page?

Just curious if the visual feedback scrollbars offer is represented by screen readers.

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ChatGPT just wrote me a beautiful short post about the merits of the scrollbar as a UI control. Guess I’ll toss it and write a rambly-yet-passionate one instead. 😓

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I keep saying this but… UI developers, please remember that the scrollbar isn’t only a visual indicator but a draggable, interactive control.

Don’t hide it with no easy way to reveal it. And please don’t make it so thin that it’s unduly difficult to click (yes some ppl use scrollbars this way).

Don’t assume a scroll wheel/ball/gesture is 100% available or accessible to the user.

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