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Giving lightbulbs a MAC address was a mistake that I’m living with. “I’m literally unscrewing lightbulbs to renew their DHCP lease @dbushell.com - Bluesky”Instead of enjoying the bank holiday Monday I updated my homelab software. I was ‘inspired’ by the Copy Fail Linux bug to run full distro […]
TL;DR: GitHub used to be cool and now it’s a lame slop graveyard. GitHub is racing towards the mythical zero nines of uptime. Users are starting to notice that GitHub is now a Microsoft product. Eww! Official uptime paints a concerning chart. The missing status page tell a far worse story. […]
My regular schedule of CSS and HTML tips will return after this brief look at the sorry state of the web and tech industry. It’s grim. “Our press secretary, Sean Spicer, gave alternative facts to that… Alternative facts - Kellyanne Conway (Wikipedia)”Following the 2017 inauguration of Mr “grab ’em […]
My website has a new page! The /uses URL pathname is an “official” slash page. I’m only listing web tools I use for now. My default apps change too frequently. The list is an evolution of an old post I was secretly maintaining. 👉 Visit my /uses page! […]
CSS cascade layers are the ultimate tool to win the specificity wars. Used alongside the :where selector, specificity problems are a thing of the past. Or so I thought. Turns out cascade layers are leakier than a xenonite sieve. Cross-layer shenanigans can make bad CSS even badder. […]
This year I’ve been asked more than ever before what web development “stack” I use. I always respond: none. We shouldn’t have a go-to stack! Let me explain why. What stack? My understanding is that a “stack” is a choice of software used to build a website. […]
I’m all aboard the CSS subgrid train. Now I’m seeing subgrid everywhere. Seriously, what was I doing before subgrid? I feel like I was bashing rocks together. Consider the follower HTML: The <main> content could be simple headings and paragraphs. […]