Annoying (to me) UI patterns:
- Hidden scrollbars
- Menus requiring sustained mouseover
- Text on top of busy images
- Newsletter signup modals
- DIY form controls
- Infinite scroll
- Autoplaying media
- Cookie disclaimers
- Alerts when leaving a site
Microblog
No one:
Me: a browser-based Yahtzee clone with personal high score tracking and RANDOM.ORG integration. /rdo3/
I’m still rocking macOS Mojave. At this point I wonder if I can make it to the next major release.
I really love the Rainier - Retro theme for VS Code. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=joytrekker.rainier
I have this fear that governments will ruin the web and in the future we’ll have to tell stories to our grandchildren about how awesome it was.
/scratchpad/
Need a quick place to jot something down? I made a little scratchpad. Stores whatever you write there directly in your browser so you can reference it later. That’s it. That’s all it does.
I just realized that in Firefox and Chrome you can select multiple tabs by holding shift or cmd/ctrl and perform actions on multiple tabs at once. #TheMoreYouKnow
https://css-tricks.com/php-is-a-ok-for-templating/
Love this pattern for templating a WordPress site (or any PHP-powered site). How have I not been doing this?
One way definitely not to get me to signup for your [WHATEVER] is to pop up a large, garishly animated sign-up box right in the middle of the page while I’m trying to use your website.
I don’t always write webpack configuration files, but when I do, I… wait, actually I never do. I just use @laravelphp Mix. - https://laravel-mix.com/
I see a lot of “jQuery sucks” or “don’t use jQuery in 2020” to which I say: use whatever works for you. If jQuery helps you make a better website or app, use it. It’s hardly a terrible choice. If anything, it’s battle-tested and reliable.
Web dev is so complex these days. Feels wrong to say all the complexity is bad. But it feels wrong to say it’s good. I use it but it never feels right to me. I feel this essay by @bastianallgeier 💯 https://bastianallgeier.com/notes/simplicity-part-2
I can’t stop watching this video by @cassidoo. Cracks me up every time. https://twitter.com/cassidoo/status/1216871876192088065
I’m scared to upgrade to Catalina. I’ve heard a lot of people complain about bugs. Anyone have anything good to say about it?
https://github.com/dg/twitter-php
I wasn’t satisfied with the IFTTT applet that was posting my microblog posts to Twitter for me, so I made my own custom integration using this handy library.
I just created an IFTTT service to automatically tweet microblog posts from my WordPress site. Let’s see if it works! #testing
https://able-dev.com/2020/01/13/styling-your-first-webpage-with-css/
This is part 2 of a beginner series I’m writing over on Able Dev. I had a lot of fun writing it. I just wish my example site wasn’t so ugly. What was I thinking? 🤷♂️
I love this collection of minimal, “classless” CSS stylesheets. I would love to see this list grow.
I really love this simple CSS stylesheet. I would love to see a curated collection of these kinds of minimal, typography-focused CSS “frameworks.” - https://uglyduck.ca/typesafe-css
A lot of people think that the Y2K bug was all hype. While it wasn’t world-ending, it was a problem that could have significant consequences. Fortunately, we saw it coming and had time to fix it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGrKKrsIpQw