No Demo [Website] Reno
I want to re-think the front-end of my site, without too much change to the (Eleventy/Markdown) content that drives it. And I want to do it slowly.
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Not All Zeros are Equal
There’s a well-established ‘best practice’
that CSS authors
(as well as linters and minifiers)
should remove units from any 0 value.
It’s a fine rule in most cases,
but there are a few common situations
where it will break your code.
2 Days of Cordwainery
Erin and I spent a couple days last week at the Colorado Shoe School in Bellvue, CO – learning, designing, and making our own sneakers. Yes, actual sneakers, fit for wearing, and built from scratch. Only the soles come pre-formed out of recycled plastic.
Body Margin 8px
All browsers add an 8px margin
on the body element –
it’s part of the w3c-recommended
default stylesheet
which browsers generally use
as a starting point
for their own ‘user agent’ styles.
But why 8px?
Where does that come from?
The Gray Areas of HWB Color
Working on Sass
support for color spaces,
I ran into a question
about the proper handling of hwb() colors.
That lead me down a rabbit hole,
exploring the edges of hwb
(and powerless color channels) in CSS.