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belldotbz

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Founder of a design studio called Set Studio · Levels up people's front-end skills at Piccalilli · Came up with CUBE CSS · Makes a killer tea.

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📝 New on Piccalilli: How a handful of independent publishers are doing their thing

I really like paying good writers so I thought I’d recommend a handful of publications I’m paying for and look at how they do things.

https://piccalil.li/blog/how-a-handful-of-independent-publishers-are-doing-their-thing/

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Instead of CSS Masonry can we have currentBackground instead pls

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📝 New on Piccalilli: I’m worried about the tabbing behaviour, rather than the syntax and name of CSS masonry

There’s a lot of chatter about CSS masonry at the moment. Should it be called “masonry” and should it be grid? Let’s worry about the basics first.

https://piccalil.li/blog/masonry-and-tabbing/

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welcome to WHAT SHIT IS LOCKING UP THE WEBSITE?!

is it 3rd party shit? is it a tracking pixel? is it a fuck load of slow JS?

the answer…ALL OF THEM [confetti and sparks fly everywhere]

belldotbz, to random
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This is a rather interesting read https://kevquirk.com/mastodon-is-ddosing-me

Hat tip to @hdv for the link

belldotbz, to random
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I need more respondents on this form if you could? https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc97QgOnDCeU_SyIO2odV0PE7A0wiWCdb32uGd2pGy16JVoKw/viewform

The question is should we change the name of https://piccalil.li?

It's currently split right down the middle…

Thanks pals!

belldotbz,
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@sarajw we're already doing that as we speak and frankly, none of the ideas are sitting well with me at the moment

belldotbz, to random
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Being able to pay LinkedIn to allow you to spam people's direct messages should be illegal.

My DMs are an absolute shambles and riddled with grifters like a dog with fleas.

developerjustin, to CSS
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I swear these posts from @belldotbz have become a delight to wake up to in my RSS reader. Great stuff in here on inheritance, maybe the best explainer I’ve seen, but good notes on progressive enhancement and too! https://piccalil.li/blog/css-inheritance/

belldotbz,
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@developerjustin Cheers, Justin :)

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📝 New on Piccalilli: CSS inheritance

Inheritance truly is a superpower and it’s what makes developing on the web a joy if you embrace it. In this quick post, I’m going to convert you into a super fan.

https://piccalil.li/blog/css-inheritance/

belldotbz,
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@xypnox that's a wild design choice by them tbh

belldotbz,
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@aardrian @xypnox first, I can't believe I used the prefixed version of the selector. What a dingbat. I'll get that edited now.

In terms of colour treatment then, Adrian. You must have published something in the past I can link to as an aside in the article?

belldotbz, to random
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just a quick reminder because some people clearly need it

protesting a genocide isn’t antisemitism

cheers

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If for some reason you’re confused who the bad guys are.

The Tory’s grand stand policy is flying — probably only hundreds of asylum seekers to Rwanda to “stop the boats”.

Labour’s grand stand policy is to nationalise rail to actually invest in the country’s key infrastructure.

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📝 New on Piccalilli: An evolution, not a revolution

We’ve refreshed the look and feel of both the Piccalilli site and the brand so wrote up a little about that and the future of the platform.

https://piccalil.li/blog/an-evolution-not-a-revolution/

belldotbz, to random
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been playin’ through gta san andreas again

CJ on a Harley Davidson bike, in a car park, wearing said gimp suit
CJ is in his usual get up and the on screen notification reads “The gimp suit has been delivered to your wardrobe!”

belldotbz, to random
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new t swift album is mid tbh

belldotbz, to random
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The link between religious cults and javascript frameworks needs to be studied let's be honest

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📝 New on Piccalilli: A primer on the cascade and specificity

Often feared by developers, the cascade and specificity is actually really simple if you utilise the right mental model when authoring CSS.

https://piccalil.li/blog/a-primer-on-the-cascade-and-specificity/

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🔗 New Piccalilli link: How would you build Wordle with just HTML & CSS?

Scott Jehl has written a super detailed run-down of how they tried to recreate Wordle with HTML and CSS.

https://piccalil.li/links/how-would-you-build-wordle-with-just-html-and-css/

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📝 New on Piccalilli: I want to elevate more people with Piccalilli Links

A big part of the Piccalilli Links thing is I want to elevate good writers. I need help discovering those writers though!

https://piccalil.li/blog/i-want-to-elevate-more-people/

matthiasott, to blogging
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Bloggers and writers! Which tool(s) are you using to draft and write your posts or articles? And how do you keep track of the status of a piece (idea/draft/edited/published etc.)?
#blogging #writing

belldotbz,
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@matthiasott very much depends on the type of writing for me.

Blog posts on my personal site: straight from brain to internet

Piccalilli posts: written in advance, re-visited 24 hours later for an edit then scheduled for publication

Courses/Longform: editorial workflow because I bring in an editor to make sure everything is tight

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Who are you favourite Indie publishers right now? I'm thinking folks like 404 Media and Defector.

Also, I'm always up for recommendations of non tech writers/publications with RSS feeds too to keep my non-work Feedbin section nice and healthy

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Folks who don't have the full text of a post in your RSS feed: why not?

belldotbz,
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@sophie we need to work out how to get Astro to process mdx files in the main feed on piccalilli

Stuff like links work because the content comes from Notion

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the amount of stress this 1Password console error is causing is getting annoying now ngl

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