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by benfrain 6y ago
I'm central UK and had the exact same thought when I saw these announced — it would be a brave soul who wears these where I grew up!
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by benfrain 6y ago
Ha, you kids! What about the REAL project that kicked off atomic styling: https://acss.io pioneered by Thierry Koblentz and friends while at Yahoo. Everything that came since is just a variant, in principle, of that. It never ge
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by benfrain 6y ago
Forgive me if this comes across condescending or patronising. Genuinely not my intent... So many people reach for a solution without really understanding their own problem. I'm talking specifically about maintainable code. And maintain
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by benfrain 6y ago
Everything they said! Rendering is shockingly bad at times. Try running some transforms on SVG with CSS or WAAPI and it’s laughably bad. The dev tools are all but useless. Just simple things like adding a new prop/value to a selector
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by benfrain 6y ago
Sketch performance feels like a web app. Figma feels native. On every platform. Go figure.
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by benfrain 6y ago
Jamstack is nice locally but doesn’t have a solid solution to something simple like comments. WordPress is horrid to develop with locally but can do almost anything. Choose your poison.
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by benfrain 6y ago
Just wondering if others suffer with a similar affliction!
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by benfrain 6y ago
Is this any different to Ethan Marcotte’s technique written from back in April? https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/css-grid-without-max-width/ Used that one myself here: https://rwd.education
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by benfrain 6y ago
I’d like to see it pushed out to dnf repositories. Loathe to do a manual install and then have to do an install in a few days via dnf. Still the 68 branch showing in Fedora
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by benfrain 6y ago
Yes, the title is ‘the ideal tech stack for a development blog...’ I consider commenting functionality an essential component of a tech blog so was hoping that was solved in the post. It isn’t, and it hardly ever is but I wish there were m
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by benfrain 6y ago
Speed and elegance.
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by benfrain 6y ago
Scans to see how he is dealing with native comments... Realises the issue remains unsolved, along with 99% of ’CMS’ solutions... Continues with Wordpress.
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by benfrain 7y ago
Anyone else wonder what kind of horrors are currently frozen down there. I’m thinking smallpox and other problems we believed were gone for good.
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by benfrain 7y ago
Some nice updates but I admit I was just skipping down to the part where I could style them. For developers, there’s little we can do with this. You’ve changed them. They are better but imagine devs will get a whole lot more excited when w
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by benfrain 7y ago
“It’s all about the comments”. All these static site generators are fine but they can’t deal with comments. Then you have to add a commenting system from a 3rd party, at which point you may well wish you’d just gone with a PHP/DB solu
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by benfrain 7y ago
Didn’t this come out a couple of years ago? Is there a reason we are seeing it again now?
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by benfrain 7y ago
Native comment system yet?
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by benfrain 7y ago
I’m also never sure when I read these things; is the amount of CO2 listed for a flight split between the number of passengers?
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by benfrain 7y ago
Firefox is a great browser. However, the reason I end up back on Chrome is because neither iOS or Android have Firefox as the default browser. Sadly, as a front-end focused dev life is easier to build stuff out for Chrome and to a lesser e
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by benfrain 7y ago
Pedantic point. It’s ‘Sass’ and not ‘SASS’. Sass certainly pushed things forward in CSS world. Without Sass and LESS, Stylus et al. I am quite certain we wouldn’t have CSS custom properties and colour functions. Great additions to the langu
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by benfrain 7y ago
VS Code has some good features and rapid iteration but it is slow. Slow to start, slow to render pages when you switch tabs. Sublime Text may not have BBedits ability with massive files but for 99% of the time it is lightning quick and rock
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by benfrain 8y ago
Dank Mono. Ligatures, crossed zero and crazy italics for comments and the like: https://dank.sh
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by benfrain 8y ago
I made a free to use PWA for organising team games. No connection needed: https://io.benfrain.com
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by benfrain 8y ago
I tried the utility approach many years ago and while I can see the appeal in some situations I think it’s far from a panacea. My journey led to me writing http://ECSS.io The opposite way of tackling CSS at scale. Instead of ab
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by benfrain 8y ago
The comments on a blog post are often as useful as the post itself. They are also directly related to the content of the post. Why would I want that information stored anywhere else but with the post itself? Especially with a 3rd party? T
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by benfrain 8y ago
I’m amazed no-one has mentioned the lack of a built-in commenting feature. The makers of Ghost are here appreciating the benefits of comments but sadly they haven’t made there way to Ghost yet. I’d love to move to Ghost from Wordpress but c