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rem, 10 months ago to random

Bought some shorts on Vinted. After wearing them for a week, I realised there was something in one of the pockets.

It was a tooth.

Proper grim.

rem, 10 months ago to random

Tickets go on sale for #ffconf 2023 this Thursday :squee: https://2023.ffconf.org/

ppk, 10 months ago to random

[att=val]
[att~=val]
[att|=val]
[att^=val]
[att$=val]
[att*=val]

Which of them have you NEVER used?

I always had the feeling that there's rather too many of these attribute selectors, and that they were optimized for a use case that was cancelled a long time ago.

OK, URLs. But other than that?

rem, 10 months ago to random

Just tried a new version of timezone lookup from referring IP, this version is supposed to include the correct "wall clock" offset: https://ip2tz.isthe.link/v2

Let me know if it's right or more importantly…wrong.

(If it's right, the solution was 2 lines…)

andy, 10 months ago to random

New on the blog: I'm writing a new talk and I'd love to do it at some more events this year.

I'm breaking the mould of CSS-focused talks to do a more design related talk, all about how important pre-production is in guaranteeing a great UX that works for everyone.

https://andy-bell.co.uk/im-doing-a-new-talk/

rem, 10 months ago to random

I've accidentally been paying for a midjourney subscription for several months (after trying out to play with images with the kids).

So now, I've started feeding spam email subject titles into it. Annoyingly I can't only generate 1 image, so I have to upscale the first one.

Weird thread incoming…

rem, 10 months ago to random

What an absolute headache this has been, but I've finally managed to restore one of my micro services - getting the timezone for a visitor: https://ip2tz.isthe.link/

It takes the requesting IP (or via query string) and finds the tz in 3.1m records, very fast and without a db.

rem, 10 months ago to random

I've been writing code for what's essentially a simple problem, but requires a very large database AND I don't want to put the data in an online SASS db. So, yeah, constraints.

Works perfectly offline, but really doesn't fly online. I'd forgotten how annoying code can be.

rem, 10 months ago to random

@simon am I missing something or is it just not straightforward to put a 300mb sqlite db on S3 (or something) and then query from a lambda function?

I'm looking at horse-shoeing-in the httpvfs method, but I thought I'd ask you first!

rem, 10 months ago to random

I'm currently looking at restoring a couple of projects (specifically https://webmention.app) - but I'm loathed to deploy to Vercel again after it banned every deployment in around 12 hours of notice and the lack of visibility and control I get when there's a spike that pushes you over the limits…

I'm currently seeing if there's ways I can refactor the code for Netlify functions.

rem, 10 months ago to random

I've been wanting to see if this was possible… and it totally was. I can play the Switch Gameboy games … with a Gameboy (which, frankly, is pointless, but hey!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9gX9qlfynE

rem, 10 months ago to random

There's a lot of strong submissions to the @ffconf 2023 CFP.

If you're new or fresh to the industry, or an old hand who has stories to tell, please take a look at our CFP and our promise to all our speakers: https://ffconf.org/articles/cfp/

rem, 10 months ago to random

Somehow I'm finally in the land of hand crafting SVG.

It's not pretty, but it's getting there.

rem, 10 months ago to random

Does SVG have the capability to make this from 3 shapes (two diamonds and one line) where the positioning is actually responsive?

I keep thinking it must (whilst also acknowledging that my knowledge is getting rather stale!)

anatudor, 10 months ago to webdev

#cssChallenge2023
How would you code this with:

⚠️ 1 element, no pseudos
⚠️ no SVG, no images in general save for CSS gradients
🚫 no JS
⚠️ no lists of values of length > 8
⚠️ same amount of compiled CSS regardless of whether we have 6 or 25 bars
⚠️ at most 7 CSS declarations

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