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rachelandrew

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Content lead for Chrome DevRel at Google. Opinions (and cats) my own.

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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, to CSS
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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

rachelandrew, to random
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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.

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Almost every theater in Denver has a wordpress site composed of random plugins and scraps of gaffer tape. Some use accessibility overlays. At least they're trying?

Someone should specialize in maintaining theater WP sites. Their needs are all pretty similar: event calendars and ticket sales.

Maybe that will be my retirement plan. I can become Colorado Theater Webmaster, or something. (Please do this before me, so I don't have to)

rachelandrew,
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@mia When I still owned Perch CMS I had a vague idea there might still be a market for super customized, super simple CMS packages (self hosted so no ongoing costs other than cheap hosting). So, something that someone with basic skills could deploy and run that had all the plugins ready to go for that use case.

I also have many thoughts about the things we lost when it became hard to make a living just being a "small town webmaster".

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

rachelandrew,
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@craiggrannell Yeah, it was a complete reconstruction so in terms of range of movement and so on, it's likely it's as good as it gets. Surgeon no.2 was very impressed with what the surgeon who did the reconstruction had managed to achieve, so I feel as if I'm luckier than I could have been. The nerve damage is most problematic day to day, just because it's random and painful, though I have a reasonable handle on environmental things that make it worse.

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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.

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

rachelandrew,
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@rem it was a tiny one-bedroom flat. I think that tree was wedged between a sofa and the desk.

rachelandrew, to random
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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.

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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

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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.

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Went for the sensible option of kitchen benches. Neighbour walked past while I was sanding them down. Is now likely wondering what the hell I have for Christmas dinner that requires ear protection.

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Went for a festive run.

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I'm not sure what people thought we were doing as we ran back and forth in the rain to draw the feet. 😂

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

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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, to webdev
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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. https://web.dev/blog/baseline2023

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The Nabaztag bunny is getting festive.

rachelandrew,
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@simoncox I remember affirmation of the day! Early on we had it set up to announce when we sold a Perch license. Fun times.

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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.

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Making soup today. Spicy parsnip and peanut butter for me, leek and potato for @perlbod (who thinks parsnips are an abomination only marginally preferred over peanut butter).

rachelandrew,
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@tink @perlbod I love veg, except parsnips. The vilest of roots.

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It's absolutely irresponsible of Google to continue to promote Chromium-only APIs such as the File System Access API as if they were standard APIs you can use with the expectation that cross-browser support will come eventually

Glossing over the difference between APIs that have genuine cross-browser implementation interest and Chrome-only APIs that are unlikely to ever get implemented in Firefox or Safari is tantamount to tricking devs into making their projects Chrome-only.

rachelandrew,
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@baldur @jyasskin If you can point me to such articles on web.dev I'll fix that, we aim for web.dev to cover interoperable APIs though there may be the odd older article that got missed. The Chrome for Developers site covers a lot of Chrome-first or Chrome-only content, and experimental things too that we hope to get feedback on, but we do try to make that clear.

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Some of my neighbours have already got their Christmas lights up. I can see a full sleigh/reindeer thing going on from my bedroom window. I'm not sure whether to grumble about it being mid-November or join them.

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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.

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