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Aside: Mastodon post on 03/27/2024

Who do I need to lobby in order to get and more granular scrollbar styling abilities in Firefox? Or is this a web standards thing?

Asking because my favorite user CSS to apply to websites is to make the scrollbar about twice as big.

Aside: Mastodon post on 03/24/2024

I’m not sure what deity I crossed, but for no reason whatsoever I have It’s Gonna Be Me by NSYNC on repeat in my head.

Also, you’re a month early, boys. It’s gonna be April.

Aside: Mastodon post on 03/22/2024

I've been messing around with some CSS for styling blog posts for like three days now and keep changing my mind. Is there a word for this? It's like CSS decision paralysis.

Aside: Mastodon post on 03/20/2024

I just got done recording an episode of @shoptalkshow with Dave Rupert and Chris Coyier!

It was fun. Hope yall like trig because there were some tangents. Should be out in a couple weeks.

Aside: Mastodon post on 03/19/2024

Then someone in the discussion said something I always find a bit deflating. They said they had no problem writing, but they’re not so keen on publishing.
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> “After all”, they said, “the world doesn’t need yet another opinion.”

adactio.com/journal/20996

Aside: Mastodon post on 03/19/2024

Imagine your favorite app. Now imagine that you could change the way it looks or how it behaves without having to submit a feature request to the developer.

Such is the power of the web.

You can add your own CSS or JavaScript to any webpage. How wild is that?

Aside: Mastodon post on 03/15/2024

Have you ever come across some code on a project and thought, “that is kind of weird but irrelevant to me right now,” and then discovered hours later that it’s the source of the bug you have been trying to fix the entire time?

Edit: it turns out there is a comment above the exact line of problematic code that says “Yes this is stupid…”

Aside: Mastodon post on 03/09/2024

It is mind boggling how much JavaScript exists just to help people avoid writing CSS.

Aside: Mastodon post on 03/06/2024

Troy and Abed is the greatest bromance in the history of television. Chang my mind.

Aside: Mastodon post on 02/27/2024

What’s the easiest way to get started making a theme for VS Code these days? I know I’ve seen some web-based tools out there.

Aside: Mastodon post on 02/24/2024

Ok @eleventy peeps, what’s the secret to getting nice highlighting and prettier formatting on njk files? Feel like I saw a toot about this recently and can’t remember who it was.