April 29, 2021 at 12:55 pm
I’m digging in and giving the site little revamps in a few places. Better type, better responsive handling, cleanup some code. In looking to add a dark mode, I ran across this example by Max Böck who dialed the idea to eleven with a color theme switcher featuring ten options. I don’t think I’m going to do ten but three or four might be nice.
August 1, 2014 at 3:14 pm
I finally sat down today and tackled my backlog of RSS feeds. There were over 1300 items that have been piling up because of a conference and moving. After reading headlines and sorting through the riff-raff, I have for you the gems of the last week.
Game About Squares — Simple, minimalist brain teaser of a game
Greater Than or Equal To — Wonderful concept for a writer’s website, executed perfectly
Some details on Github’s CSS by Mark Otto
Chris Coyier pulls back the curtain on Codepen’s CSS
Dave Rupert talks about responsive web design bloat, then increases his site’s performance.
Wordmark.it — Have a lot of fonts on your computer? Ever wonder what a word would like in every font loaded on your computer? Boom, problem solved.
VIDE — jQuery plugin for video backgrounds
A visualization of creatives’ salaries from a Designer News survey
Elliot Jay Stocks is consolidating his web typography knowledge
A dissenting opinion about Monotype buying FontShop
And we finish with this expletive laden video of every Samuel L. Jackson Mother######.
July 21, 2014 at 10:27 pm
Harry Roberts at CSS Wizardry has some great tips about hacking CSS specificity up or down depending on what you’re trying to do. It’s a good rule of thumb to start as least specific as possible and only create more specific selectors when you have to.