Coding from Home on a Snowy Morning

Whose code this is I think I know.
Written before Prettier, though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch parenthesis reflow.

My editor must think it queer
To save without a commit near.
My MacBook Pro will keep me warm
The coldest morning of the year.

A yellow line highlights to warn
Of declaration with bad form.
The only other sound’s the beep
From webpack build that did perform.

JS is lovely, dark and deep,
But I have Promises to keep,
And JIRAs to go before I sleep,
And JIRAs to go before I sleep.

Steps to get on the IndieWeb:

1. Get a blog and post to it
2. You’re on the IndieWeb!

“I’m Harvesting Credit Card Numbers and Passwords from Your Site. Here's How.”

tldr: Use a CSP.

https://medium.com/@david.gilbertson/im-harvesting-credit-card-numbers-and-passwords-from-your-site-here-s-how-9a8cb347c5b5

An article titled “Frontend in 2017: the Important Parts” but doesn’t mention any of the amazing leaps forward in CSS that happened perfectly sums up our industry. 😩

Blogging advice for 2018: just hit publish

HTML needs a “preferred breaking space” character.

“So, implementors: build stuff which kills your own FB usage before trying to kill facebook.” 👏🏻

https://waterpigs.co.uk/notes/1480/

It's bug report weekend!

Reported a Prettier bug; saw a fix PR within 8 hours. Reported a FF bug; had it confirmed and a workaround provided.

Thanks to everyone working on these!

Microsoft has figured out that winning over the developers & designers will eventually win over the masses. And Apple has forgotten it.

I think these are going to be big topics at conferences in the coming year

https://twitter.com/fox/status/930232428790087680

Some interesting findings here, and the current WCAG 2.1 recommendation: text should resize up to 200%. https://alastairc.ac/2017/11/is-text-sizing-dead/

<input type="country"> probably won’t happen. I’m okay with that.

But can we have an <input type="typeahead">?

Is it just me, or does FF Nightly ask to be restarted twice each morning?

Last year, I felt uneasy about the moral implications of using an ad-blocker. Now I feel it's a moral imperative to use one.

Ad-based/spy-based revenue model needs to be broken.

Considering releasing a stripped-down copy of my blog setup as a Hugo-based IndieWeb starter kit… 🤔

Potential CSS specs/concepts I most want to see made reality:

• Color functions
• Regions
• Container queries
• Subgrid

Trying to decide whether DateTimes in Go are better or worse than DateTimes in JavaScript

In retrospect, maybe we should have had another WiFi security protocol queued up

Video from my Connect Tech talk is up! The Decentralized Social Web:

https://www.recallact.com/presentation/decentralized-social-web

.@davatron preaching the importance of your own blog instead of vomiting into the Twitter sewer

As soon as this storm clears NOLA, it’s gonna be over ATL. Cannot figure out how I’m gonna get down there without missing at least the entire first day of @CSSDevConf 😣

I got in the habit of using flex: 1 as shorthand for flex-grow: 1 and somehow keep forgetting that it breaks in IE 😖

Things learned when building a browser extension: Chrome will let you publish any old thing. Everyone else vets your extension before putting it in their store.

I already have the ability to tweet out more than 140 characters ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. 280 characters. 10,000 characters. Whatever.

Not really sure what the big deal is here… 🙃

Posting live from on stage at @connect_js!

Interesting thread here on how Firefox rasterizes SVGs & the performance implications

https://twitter.com/Gankro/status/909795286201065472

Universities: Let’s create WWW using HTML so information readily available

Also universities: Let’s make research papers available only as PDFs

I believe 100% in “Clean Code” and also believe repetition is much better than the wrong abstraction. Why do I keep seeing folks arguing between the two as if they somehow contradict?

I’m reversing my previous position: Twitter should drop the 140 char limit.

Test post from Omnibear in Firefox!

“When it comes to CSS, isolation is more important than reuse”

I disagree with this so hard