Tonight — Daniel is playing with both
Raven Jane (7pm @ Moes Original BBQ),
and The Truth & Spectacle
(midnight @ The Hornet).
Also at midnight,
Accordion Crimes
is worth checking out
if you like Fugazi-style noise
coming from an aluminumguitar.
Firefox 69 was the first to implement selector feature queries,
but other browsers are following suit.
I’ll show you how it works,
and how to start using this new feature query rightaway.
Horizontal text overflow has always been difficult to manage on the web.
The default visible overflow
is designed to make sure content remains accessible
no matter the size of a containing box,
but it’s not our onlyoption.
When we’re scrolling down a page,
or through a gallery of images,
snap-targets can help guide us from one section or image to the next.
In the past, developers have used JavaScript to hijack scrolling,
but now we can manage scroll alignment directly in CSS
with only a few lines ofcode.
The display property has been in CSS from the beginning,
handling everything from block and inline boxes
to list-items and full layout systems like flexbox or grid.
Now the display syntax is getting an upgrade
to match it’s multipleuses.
There are a number of property & value combinations
that can lead to CSS being inactive,
and now Firefox will tell you why.
Open the developer tools,
and look for the greyed-out property with an info-box onhover.
It’s a common pattern to align form labels and inputs in grid-like layout.
I’ll show you how to do it quickly using CSS subgrid,
with several quickfallbacks.
Card layouts are popular on the web,
rows and columns of boxes with similar content.
CSS grids can help align those cards,
but it’s still be hard to line-up content inside the cards –
headers and footers that might need more or lessroom.
For years,
we’ve struggled to build resilient layouts on the web,
but CSS Grid promises to change all that –
and you can start using it now,
with only a few properties and basicconcepts.
I’ve often used initial and unset in my CSS –
global keywords that can be applied to any property.
The difference is small, but important:
unset allows inheritance,
while initial does not.
But then Firefox implemented revert and I was confused –
how is this one different from theothers?!
Sass recently launched a new module system.
The new syntax will replace @import with
@use and @forward –
a big step forward for making Sass partials
more readable, performant, andsafe.
CSS is the design language of the web –
one of three core web languages –
but it also seems to be the most contentious and often perplexing.
It’s too easy and too hard,
too fragile and too resilient.
Love it or hate it, CSS is weird:
not quite markup,
not quite programming in the imperative sense,
and nothing like the design programs we use for print.
How did we gethere?
When you create lists in HTML,
browsers add bullet-points or numbers we call list markers.
Now CSS gives us the tools to style those list markers,
and even create ourown!
On Episode 18,
the TalkScript team continues the live-ish at JSConfUS podcast series
with guests Myles Borins, Tim Doherty, and Miriam Suzanne. Listenin!
The Journal of Mennonite Writing
asked me to submit
for their queer issue.
I don’t identify as Mennonite,
but I did grow up in the church,
so I asked my friends what to write about.
They suggested the common question:
In a world without rigid gender roles,
would anyone need to betrans?
Yesterday,
I shared an article about my impending surgery,
and a request for help –
both social and financial –
as I go through this.
I was embarrassed to ask,
and not sure what to expect,
but your response has been swift and overwhelming.
I can’t thank you enough,
but I’ll keeptrying.
Denver Health has started offering vaginoplasty
in addition to their other trans medical services.
While I’ve been on the waitlist
for various surgeons around the country,
Denver Health called me this week
to give me a date: September 10,
less than two monthsaway.
Inspired by Robin Rendle,
I demonstrate some of my early experiments
combining CSS Grids and custom properties
to create dynamic layouts anddata-visualizations.
At the family vacation in Moab,
everyone is doing their best.
It’s not enough,
and my day is peppered with the wrong name and pronouns.
I hide in my room through dinner
so they won’t see mecrying.
“Mother finds me at her wardrobe, in her pumps and pearls.
What are you doing?
Being a mommy.
Are you, then?
She clips on the earrings (they pinch!),
reaches for herlipstick.”
Viewport units have been around for several years now,
with near-perfect support in the major browsers,
but I keep finding new and exciting ways to use them.
I thought it would be fun to review the basics,
and then round-up some of my favoriteuse-cases.
It feels like CSS Grid has been coming for a long time now,
but it just now seems to be reaching a point
where folks are talking more and more about it
and that it’s becoming something we shouldlearning.
It’s been a month
since our country pseudo-elected
a bigoted blow-hard for president.
I’m heading to DC to protest his inauguration in January,
visit friends,
and go on a mixed-media resistancetour…
I’m still reeling from this year of insults,
a traumatizing campaign turned traumatic election.
I’m not sad about a contest lost,
but what those results mean
for real people around me.
2016 is over,
but 2017 is going to be evenharder.
There’s a lot of language that gets thrown around,
but much of it comes loaded with
over-simplified baggage and misconceptions.
Here are a few that have been on my mind –
from gender identity to biological sex,
transition, passing, and visibility.
It’s been a month
since our country pseudo-elected
a bigoted blow-hard for president.
I’m heading to DC to protest his inauguration in January,
visit friends,
and go on a mixed-media resistancetour…
No matter what acronym drives your selectors
(BEM, OOCSS, SMACSS, ETC),
loops can help keep your patterns more readable and maintainable,
baking them directly into your code.
We’ll take a look at what loops can do,
and how to use them in the major CSSpreprocessors.
Chris Coyier interviews Miriam
when she joins the CSS Tricks team
as a Staff Writer.
We talk about gettting started in the industry,
name confusion,
fouding OddBird,
building Susy,
andmore.
In this episode of the Versioning Show,
Tim and David are joined by Miriam Suzanne,
best known for Susy, a responsive layout toolkit for Sass.
They discuss going from being a lurker to finding your voice,
the importance of writing about what you’re learning,
stumbling into fame, approaching new projects, and unit testing inSass.
There are some questions that come up again and again
if you are trans.
A few of those questions are terrible,
but most of them are well-intentioned.
I’m lucky to have a supportive community around me,
so I thought I’d write down my most common answers
to help ease your stress about
getting it right,
and ease my stress about
answering the same questions over andover.
This interview serves as a follow up
to my performance of
The Obsolete Book in a Post-Obsolete World
as Represented by a Post-Obsolete Book About Dance
at the Media ArcheologyLab.