Bidirectional text in HTML
Today's obscure HTML element: <bdi>. It stands for "bidirectional" and refers to text that can include both RTL and LTR languages (does not appear to care about other […]
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A GitHub content editor
Prose is a service that connects with any GitHub repo you want, and then lets you edit Markdown and plain text files directly from a dedicated text editor. Particularly useful for people using GitHub […]
Root and branch
Notes from an interview of Dr. John Grimshaw, director of the Yorkshire Arboretum, on tree planting, climate pledges, and conservation, published in House & Garden September […]
There's a web component for that
The Component Kitchen is a sort of app store for web components; a digital directory of useful packages, recipes, and one-shots that can be imported into your […]
A static-site CMS that runs in VS Code
A clever, open-source CMS designed for static site generators like Eleventy, Astro, and Hugo which use Markdown files and frontmatter metadata. The CMS itself runs directly in your IDE, giving you a […]
Vision possible
There's been a lot of hyperbole – in both directions – around Apple's much-anticipated first-steps into VR. I feel this write-up from MartianCraft does a fairly good job of weighing up some of […]
SVG crop
An absolutely fantastic little utility site that takes pretty much any SVG and removes all of the white space. You can drag'n'drop, upload image files, or just paste markup directly into a text […]
Generative social media card editor
Man, I wish I'd been able to put something together like this back when I was managing a content team. The ability to just type directly into an image and have the background generatively populate […]
A movement to green the web
A powerful and insightful piece by Michelle on the direct environmental impact the tech sector has, the way in which tech workers can demand further accountability and action, and the reality that […]
The mistakes of CSS
It's fun to see which technical decisions the CSS working group officially consider "mistakes" 😂 I agree with most, though not sure how I feel about the counter-clockwise directional shorthand […]
Netlify redirects and downloads
I didn't know that the <a> element had a download attribute, nor that it could rename the file on download for you […]
Lbry
On the face of it, Lbry is a YouTube competitor based on privacy and community. You can tip creators directly, but otherwise it basically works as you'd expect, only with fewer features (no […]
Jamstack Conf 2020
Notes from the 2020 Jamstack Conf. Some interesting dives in the Jamstack community and various applications of Jamstack technologies, with tweet threads as usual.
How to add Netlify redirects to Gatsby
On the surface, Netlify has very simply redirect functionality. In principle, I tripped up twice trying to set it up 😅 Konstantin helped set me right: I needed to move the _redirects file to the […]
Input attribute for one-time code
Just a neat tip: the autocomplete="one-time-code" attribute/value allows an HTML form to fetch a code used for two-factor authentication directly from the messaging app. Seems to only work for […]
Interneting is (Apparently) Hard [#7]
Reddit has once again directed me towards a very interesting online resource: Interneting is […]
John Oliver's Back in the UK, Free and Legal!
I am a huge fan of the ever insightful talk show Last Week Tonight, hosted by John Oliver. I love the directness of the opinion pieces, agree with many of the stances taken and largely find the […]