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I modified the big chonker scrollbar to be semi-transparent. It blends into a website’s existing colors a bit better now.
https://social.lol/@bw/112237794332180966

11ty peeps, say I have the following:

pages/
– 10-my-first-page.md
– 20-my-second-page.md
– 30-my-third-page.md

I'm setting the permalink thusly:

permalink: "{{ page.filePathStem }}/"

What is the easiest way to get 11ty to ignore the number in the slug that I am using just for sorting purposes? I would like the permalink to be, for example:

/pages/my-first-page/index.html

But currently I get:

/pages/10-my-first-page/index.html

I’m about to go down a rabbit-hole reading about Preact signals. This readme is good but I would also like to see the explain-it-like-I’m-five version.

https://github.com/preactjs/signals

I recently decided every website I visit should have a giant scrollbar I can easily click and drag. Here’s the medium gray one I came up with that I’m applying as a user style.

It’s mostly for webkit-compatible scrollbars but I did add one rule for FF/standards-compatible scrollbars to prevent scrollbar-width: thin.

https://blakewatson.com/notes/4fd87f0a/

It’s CSS Naked Day! https://blakewatson.com/

Remember when 960.gs was the GOAT?

It’s that time of year in the US where you don your ceremonial robes, prepare your incantations, and bring all your wit and wisdom to bear…

…in accurately guessing how much money you owe the government.

What do people use for deploying/building code these days?

I use DeployHQ and I like it but I’m limited to 10 projects on the lowest tier. Next plan is double the cost so I’m shopping for alternatives because I have a lot of tiny projects.

I’d prefer not to have to write YAML.

An optimistic take on the deluge of AI-generated text: your own human writing becomes rarer and thus more valuable than ever.

Someone got a photo of @robb’s @eleventy setup
https://mstdn.social/@ElleGray/112202493657027204

OH: “They’re nice on the phone but they’ll eff you on paper.”

Had a great time talking home-cooked apps and generally shooting the webdev breeze with @davatron5000 and @chriscoyier.
https://front-end.social/@shoptalkshow/112196289295136552

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.

A little bit of a ShopTalk spoiler but at one point I mentioned regretting that I used polling instead of web sockets on a home-cooked chat app/site.

Well, over the weekend I integrated Pusher which is a web-sockets-as-a-service product. It worked great. Their free plan is more than enough for a home-cooked app.

Backstory: https://blakewatson.com/journal/building-our-own-private-discord-knockoff/

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.

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.

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.

I miss aqua-style scrollbars so much. I actually need and use scrollbars.
https://mastodon.online/@octothorpe/112117134117397539

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.
>
> “After all”, they said, “the world doesn’t need yet another opinion.”

https://adactio.com/journal/20996

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?