Reading Time: 10 minutes So, a while back on a project, we had something terrible happen. A “stop the presses, no one go on lunch, everyone jump on a call” sort of situation. Because, you see, a hover color was wrong. ON THE HOME PAGE! Someone had changed a class, not knowing that it wasn’t used just over in
Reading Time: 7 minutes I usually write about front-end things or CMS things or node.js things. Sometimes a little of all three. This is about all of those things at once. And it’s about how I think that, sometimes, enterprises are fucking dumb. Note: The views expressed in here are not those of my employer. They are the views
Reading Time: 4 minutes Ever wanted to delete a CSS ruleset, but didn’t know if it was being used on a site? Maybe you want to know how many empty h3s you’ve got. Or maybe you want to know how often a a .title and .subtitle are used together. I built a thing that can answer that question: The
Reading Time: 13 minutes In direct response to the recent election (I don’t even need to say which, you know the one), I have observed that many of my conservative friends and family touting a new platform for free-speech-minded folks: Parler. Being an ever-curious individual with a degree in French, I decided to sign up for Parler. My interest
Reading Time: 9 minutes Since the election I’ve seen quite a few folks in my Facebook feed talk about their departure for Parler, a ‘free-speech-focused social media platform’. Various arguments have been cited ranging from security and privacy through use of algorithms and tracking. I have plans to give a lengthy, very technical explanation for why no one should
Reading Time: 3 minutes I have a very handy, very small CSS Snippet that I use to debug CSS whenever the browser starts starts misbehaving. I figure I’d share with you, in case you, too, needed such a snippet.
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Folks who are brand new to web development, particularly front-end, might hear the term “Specificity” or “CSS Specificity” and when they look it up the answer can seem daunting and confusing.
I want to break it down in very simple, very non-technical terms so that someone brand-new to the world of front-end can understand what it is
Reading Time: 4 minutes CSS is full of little gotchas and head scratchers. It’s also got a land mine or two that’s all too easy to step on. One of those landmines is the :not() pseudo-class. As useful as it may seem, I’d like to encourage you to not use it, unless you really, really mean to because of
Reading Time: 4 minutes In July of 2019, I was given the opportunity to speak at SDL Connect, which would be taking place in October. We debated a bit at EXLRT on what the topic should be, but we finally settled on, “The Seven Deadly Sins of Enterprise Software” Settling on the topic was easy enough, but then we
Reading Time: 6 minutes For the past few years I’ve been writing these, “year in review” things to summarize my full year. This time around, I’m going to review an entire friggin’ decade. Why? Because a lot has happened in a near decade. 2010 In July of 2010 I left a company called Mannatech after working there for five