A better new tab page
A potentially useful tool for making your browser's new tab page a lot more productive (even if it isn't quite what I […]
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Restoring a Lost Firefox Session
Ever close Firefox or have a crash, restart it, and discover an entire window of tabs is missing? You can potentially resurrect that lost session state, if you act quickly enough.
Inclusive tabbed interfaces
I've been digging into tabbed interfaces ("tabs") recently. As usual, Heydon's Inclusive Components has one of the best overviews and write-ups of the techniques used. I particularly love […]
Marking up a Tracklist
Is an album's tracklist better suited for a table or a list? The answer may surprise you! (But it probably won't).
Enabling keyboard navigation in macOS
I was not expecting to find browsing the web with a keyboard so damn tricky on macOS, but here we are 😂 The tl;dr of the situation […]
Recording Records
A look at the largely manual workflow I've used to convert my physical music collection into a digital data archive.
How to use tabindex
Great overview on when/when not to use the tabindex attribute. Most of it feels like common sense, but the recommendation for overflow content is an interesting one I'd not come across […]
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 […]
Accessible interactions
So you have a non-page-based navigation: tabs, carousels, accordions, multi-level menus, route changes... we deal with these a lot in modern frontends. Is your "trigger" (the thing you press to make […]
The Taxonomy of Me
Well, it only took about a week of dazed puzzling, data tables, and tearing my hair out in clumps, but I think I may finally have a rough content taxonomy for theAdhocracy. A rough first version, that is. Let me explain...