Calendars, shopping carts, galleries, file explorers, and online libraries are some situations where selectable items are shown in grids (i.e. square lattices). You know, even those security checks that ask you to select all images with crosswalks or whatever.
🧐… Conditionally Styling Selected Elements in a…
De-Mystifying IndieWeb on a WordPress Site
Well, sheesh. I opened a little can of worms when sharing Miriam’s “Am I on the IndieWeb yet?” with a short post bemoaning my own trouble getting on the IndieWeb train. But it’s a good can of worms.
I think … De-Mystifying IndieWeb on a WordPress…
Useful Tools for Visualizing Databases on a Budget
A diagram is a graphical representation of information that depicts the structure, relationship, or operation of anything. Diagrams enable your audience to visually grasp hidden information and engage with them in ways that words alone cannot. Depending on the type … Useful Tools for Visualizing…
Single Element Loaders: The Spinner
Making CSS-only loaders is one of my favorite tasks. It’s always satisfying to look at those infinite animations. And, of course, there are lots of techniques and approaches to make them — no need to look further than CodePen to … Single Element Loaders: The…
Am I on the IndieWeb yet?
Can’t smash the Like button hard enough for what Miriam Suzanne has to say on the challenging technical hurdles of implementing Webmentions: The first round required several online services along with HTML & JS changes to my static site, just to verify my … Am I on the…
Let’s Make a QR Code Generator With a Serverless Function!
QR codes are funny, right? We love them, then hate them, then love them again. Anyways, they’ve lately been popping up again and it got me thinking about how they’re made. There are like a gazillion QR code generators out … Let’s Make a QR…
Building Interoperable Web Components That Even Work With React
Those of us who’ve been web developers more than a few years have probably written code using more than one JavaScript framework. With all the choices out there — React, Svelte, Vue, Angular, Solid — it’s all but inevitable. One … Building Interoperable Web Components…
Please Give Me Some Space
There’s all kinds of ways to do that. Some more advisable and better-suited for certain situations than others, of course.
We could do it directly in HTML:
<pWe go from one line…<br<brdown a couple more.</p
But that’s … Please Give Me Some Space originally published on CSS-Tricks. You…
How to Create Block Theme Patterns in WordPress 6.0
Block patterns, also frequently referred to as sections, were introduced in WordPress 5.5 to allow users to build and share predefined block layouts in the pattern directory. The directory is the home of a wide range of … How to Create Block Theme Patterns in…
SPAs, Shared Element Transitions, and Re-Evaluating Technology
Nolan Lawson sparked some discussion when he described a noticeable shift away from single-page applications (SPAs): Hip new frameworks like Astro, Qwik, and Elder.js are touting their MPA [multi-page application] with “0kB JavaScript by default.” … SPAs, Shared Element Transitions, and Re-Evaluating Technology originally published…