Can You Code On An iPad?
How well does an iPad work as full code editing device; a veritable laptop replacement? That's what I wanted to find out.
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Debug iOS Safari with Xcode
Need to debug an iOS or iPadOS device but don't have one? Got a Mac of some kind? Turns out, Xcode is a pretty comparable environment to the real deal and almost any mobile Safari bug can be tested […]
Modern CSS for dynamic component-based architecture
A lovely overview of much of the new CSS that has landed (or is landing) in browsers recently, and how that relates to component-led […]
Upgrades and polyfills
My personal fight with Apple's software lockouts on iPad continues, so this comment (and most of Jeremy's surrounding thoughts) really resonated […]
The typos that changed lives
An elderly gent who inadvertently had his satnav set to "Rom" instead of "Rome" and wound up in the wrong country;A pilot that incorrectly input destination coordinates causing a […]
How to tame line-height in CSS
An interesting read that covers some of the basic terminologies of typesetting, as well as the technicalities of how browsers actually interpret the line-height value. Hint: it's not what you'd […]
Locked Out
I mostly use my iPad for watching YouTube. So what do I do now that Google has locked my device out of the YouTube app because it's too old? Why is it possible for a company to effectively remove features from my device that worked yesterday?
Learning from Lego with modular design
An interesting look at using padding only on the very lowest element within a hierarchy (as Samantha says, the atoms of your design) and therefore setting it globally. It's a logical approach, though […]
theAdhocracy Mark II: The Rehosting
CSS? Fonts? Italics? Sidebars? What witchcraft is this? Is this not theAdhocracy, the home of plain HTML and nothing more (despite the clear problems associated with that)? Well: yes! But at […]