2020

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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

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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

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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

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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