rachelandrew

rachelandrew, 15 days ago to random

My office this morning as I start the trek to #googleio. Happy to see BA have reinstated the old work area in the Concorde Room and designated it a quiet zone.

rachelandrew, 26 days ago to CSS

There's been a lot of discussion about masonry in CSS recently. I wrote about the Chrome team's proposal to help clarify why we have concerns with bundling masonry in with grid, and to show that a separate spec doesn't mean fewer features. https://developer.chrome.com/blog/masonry #css

rachelandrew, 28 days ago to random

Today's running mission was to find bluebells and wild garlic. We succeeded, though we got very wet and muddy in the process! Shout out to my running buddy who brought tupperware on a run to collect garlic.

A wide angle shot of tall trees in a wood.
Close up of bluebells next to a mossy tree.
Bluebells and wild garlic.

rachelandrew, 1 month ago to random

Some thoughts about having aphantasia, the inability to create images in your mind. https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2024/04/21/on-having-no-visual-memory/

rachelandrew, 1 month ago to random

Facebook seems to be suggesting I share a new x-ray.

rachelandrew, 1 month ago to random

The cats have discovered a hole in a raised bed which I think is made by rats. Not sure what to do about that. Get in a rat catcher? Just accept I own rats now?

rachelandrew, 1 month ago to random

Been getting all up in the sky again, after a reasonable amount of standing about pointing at clouds.

View from inside a glider just after takeoff. The orange to g plane is towing.

rachelandrew, 2 months ago to random

A little post to mark the official end of the company I began in 2001. Just a few words because, unusually for me, I can't figure out what I really want to say. https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2024/03/23/closing-time/

rachelandrew, 2 months ago to random

My soup maker packed up. I use it all the time to make lunch, so I thought I'd get a new one. What is going on at Morphy Richards that they sell this many different soup makers?

I mean, one is even called the "perfect" soup maker. Once you have the perfect one, why not stop selling all the other similarly priced ones? https://www.morphyrichards.co.uk/collections/soup-makers

rachelandrew, 2 months ago to random

Sad that A Book Apart will no longer be publishing new titles. They were a very special publisher. It's great that the back catalog will still be available to buy though.

https://abookapart.com/blogs/press/a-new-chapter-for-a-book-apart

rachelandrew, 3 months ago to random

I've been trying to write a blog post this evening that involved looking back at old blog posts, and I realise how much I used my blog back in the pre-social media days to log my thoughts. It made me kind of sad that I've given so much of that to social media, to someone else's platform, over the past 10 years.

rachelandrew, 3 months ago to CSS

align-content for block and table layout is in Chrome 123 (Beta out today). If there is a chance you've used align-content outside of flex and grid layout, as it didn't do anything due to lack of implementations, it would be a good time to check your site for strange alignment. Safari and Firefox also have this on the way. https://developer.chrome.com/blog/align-content #css

rachelandrew, 3 months ago to random

I have once again managed to book into Silicon Valley's answer to Fawlty Towers. In this case it has served me well as the Basil Fawlty at the bar seemed to think that a glass of wine meant "fill it to the brim", this was after watching him take more than 5 minutes to work out how to use a corkscrew. At least this hotel isn't partially under construction, which was the case last time.

rachelandrew, 4 months ago to random

11 years. A post about my wonky elbow situation. https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2024/01/21/11-years/

rachelandrew, 4 months ago to random

Working on some CSS stuff, with Big Jet TV live from LHR on in the background. Hoping for some entertaining landings as Storm Isha picks up.

rachelandrew, 4 months ago to random

What hasn't changed since 1996 https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2023/12/31/1996/

rachelandrew, 4 months ago to random

My daughter and I found a box of old photos. This is me, Christmas 1996. I was 21 and pregnant. That's the computer I taught myself to code on.

rachelandrew, 4 months ago to random

I'm working through the Flask Mega-Tutorial by @miguelgrinberg which I am appreciating as a Python newbie, and as a technical writer. It does a lovely job of revealing things you need to know as you go along, while getting something real working quickly. I'm coming from years of PHP development, and am finding that just as I think "but how would I...?" there's a note explaining exactly that.

https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/the-flask-mega-tutorial-part-i-hello-world

rachelandrew, 5 months ago to random

It's just me and the cats today as my daughter is with her mother-in-law (we will celebrate tomorrow). I'm wondering whether to festively remove a sink—probably a bad idea unless I want to be expensively mocked by an emergency plumber—or re-oil the kitchen worktop in a suitably Christmassy manner.

rachelandrew, 5 months ago to random

Went for a festive run.

rachelandrew, 5 months ago to CSS

align-content is coming to block layout! https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2023/12/19/align-content-in-block-layout/ #css

rachelandrew, 5 months ago to random

Python folks, if you were a person learning Python and wanted to build a web app (mostly consuming API data and doing stuff with it), which framework would you use? Bonus points for friendliness to someone coming from PHP, and something that represents good practices.

This is for me, I've been learning a bit of Python so want to build something useful mostly to me, but partly as a learning project as I learn best by building things.

rachelandrew, 5 months ago to webdev

Baseline is landing on Can I Use! Find out more, and discover the huge number of features that became interoperable and therefore part of Baseline this year. #webdev #css #baseline https://web.dev/blog/baseline2023

rachelandrew, 5 months ago to random

The Nabaztag bunny is getting festive.

rachelandrew, 5 months ago to random

I spent a good chunk of time hunting for my leather passport wallet, containing my passport and corp credit card. I eventually found it, carefully hidden with new teeth marks. The thief is unrepentant.