Apparently del.icio.us was bought by pinboard and will be switched to read only mode soon. I created an account long ago and have used it off and on to store 1007 bookmarks.
Continue reading post "End of del.icio.us"WWW posts page 24
I’ve started to play with Dreamcompute (basically Dreamhost’s unmanaged VPS solution). The plan is to move my sites from shared hosting over to that before my next shared hosting bill is due.
Continue reading post "#1501"Went to look at Cogneato’s new offices. The company is moving downtown (still Akron) catty-corner to Summit Artspace.
Continue reading post "#1499"Opera Mini now supports fixed position (sometimes)
Looks like an update to Opera Mini brought support for position: fixed at last (in high savings mode, or sometimes extreme). I’ll finally be able to remove my JS test for it.
StirTrek 2017
Got back from StirTrek at around 11:45PM after leaving at 5:45AM. Only got 4 hours of sleep and managed it fairly well.
Continue reading post "StirTrek 2017"StirTrek tomorrow. Gonna have to leave by 6:00, so I’m not going to get much sleep.
Continue reading post "#1470"SASS: Storing `&` in variable
Apparently in SASS you can store the current selector in a variable, eg a{ $a: &; }. Useful for dealing with some limitations of & without having to repeat selectors.
Answer: Conditional blocks in twig
Somebody asked a StackOverflow question about conditionally outputting blocks. I had a similar need. I came up with a solution that fit my need and responded with the answer
Continue reading post "Answer: Conditional blocks in twig"Last year, I wasn’t able to go to Stir Trek because it sold out well before I got home from work. This year, I didn’t catch the announcement and was still able to get a ticket. There were over 100 left.
Continue reading post "#1417"I’ve been using cssnano for compressing my CSS on some projects recently. Apparently, it rebases z-index values, ie reduces them to the minimum values that have the same stacking context within the file.