rachelandrew

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, 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, 8 months ago to random

Such sad news. Molly was a trailblazer for web standards, an amazing writer and educator. She cared about the web so deeply, and forged a path that folk like me followed.

https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/090523_molly_holzschlag/tucsons-molly-holzschlag-known-as-the-fairy-godmother-web-dead-60/

jonhicks, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

‘The Mortimiser' is something I’ve been chipping away at for a few months now.

It uses the Bob Mortimer naming formula of ordinary first name with a noun/nonsense/mundane word. Who will you be today? Kenneth Warhammer? Agnes Buttery?

That's all it does. Nothing fancy!

https://hicks.design/else/mortimiser

rachelandrew, 9 months ago to CSS

Chrome 117 beta is out today. It includes subgrid for CSS Grid. A feature I have felt was important for CSS grid layout for at least (checks actual notes/old blog posts) 8 years, and it's heading for interop status.

There's also lots of other good stuff in this beta—check it out https://developer.chrome.com/blog/chrome-117-beta/ #css

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, 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, 9 months ago to random

I think I've spotted the large orange reason why the plants in this planter aren't doing so well.

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, 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, 11 months ago to random

I’ve always liked taking photos of flowers and gardens, and it amazes me that despite my lack of competence or knowledge all this stuff has grown in my own garden. #garden #summer

Purple flowering thyme plants alongside a path.
Peachy colour rather extravagant looking roses.
Big sunset coloured daisies.

rachelandrew, 9 months ago to random

My daughter is doing a ridiculous thing for the Guide Dogs charity, abseiling down the Cheesegrater building in London (after running up over 1000 steps to get to the top!)

If you can spare a few quid to support this excellent charity, her page is here https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Beth-Skyscraper

rachelandrew, 8 months ago to random

A ten mile run with balloons in the sunshine. I've got a bunch of travel coming up and the mornings will seem dark by the time I'm back.

The virgin balloon over the locks
Two hot air balloons

rachelandrew, 9 months ago to random

Bristol Balloon Fiesta!

Several hot air balloons inflating and a striped one in the sky
A colourful hot air balloon

rachelandrew, 9 months ago to random

I was perilously close to running out… but a friend stopped by with a donation.

rachelandrew, 10 months ago to random

Seems there's a lot of folk trying to make the new social media thing be like the old social media thing at the point they liked it best. And these things are going to keep appearing for as long as everyone is searching because it might be "the one" (and for most people launching these things that means the one that makes all the money/has all the data).

I think that the next big thing probably won't look like the old thing, and will take us all by surprise. Until then I quite like Mastodon.

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, 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.

rachelandrew, 10 months ago to random

It’s been sunny for weeks in Bristol. My taking PTO seems to have ended that run. On the upside I might get more DIY done without a sunny garden to distract me.

rachelandrew, 6 months ago to random

Chrome Beta 120 is out. I've just published the beta post and there's so much on the way including unprefixed and updated CSS masking and a change to the CSS Nesting specification. Take a look https://developer.chrome.com/blog/chrome-120-beta/

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, 6 months ago to random

Batch cooking today so I can eat during the week, and also due to too many beets.

Batch cooking appears to have been rebranded as 'meal prep'. I assume the bros got into it but didn't want it to sound like what their nan did in the 1970s, freezing food in empty ice cream tubs.

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.