From Uncle Francis: After thinking the movie over this afternoon, it is a good movie after all. Writer & director Alfonso Cuarón is telling us about a woman’s story – mostly sad without explicitl…

My first-ever byline at CSS-Tricks, in which I explore ways to simulate the effect of stacking multiple element borders atop on another.…

Stephen Smith shares how to speed up tests with localized servers using Where's It Up.…

TL;DR Arrow functions are fine for certain usages, but they have so many variations that they need to be carefully controlled to not break down the readability of the code. While arrow functions clear…

In the past 24 hours, I’ve gotten a bunch of emails with positive feedback about my 81st birthday tribute to my dad and the Storyworth history I posted on how we ended up in Dallas. I woke up th…

Dear Reader, I’m old. By the time you read this, I’m even older. Getting old means that some things I used to take for granted now come at a price. That price is usually pain. When I was y…

This article is part of a series in which I attempt to use the web under various constraints, representing a given demographic of user. I hope to raise the profile of difficulties faced by real people…

This is a tool that shows you how ADA compliant your colours are in relation to each other. By adding your brand’s colours one by one, you can generate a chart to see how they can be used together f…

That one man should witness so many horrors is hard to process. That nations like ours continue to facilitate such atrocity and poverty is devastating.Familiarity with Don McCullin's photography does…

And in the “things I always wanted to have” camp, I just wrote myself a small bookmarklet that switches from a GitHub repository and its Pages back and forth. You can get it on its GitHub…

What is a service worker? A service worker is a little file that will allow you to cache files and other assets on a user’s machine. How is this different from server-side caching? Because the a…

I’ve relied on a mouse for about a decade and a half.  I don’t mean “relied on a mouse” in the generic sense, but rather in the sense that I’ve relied on one very specific and venerable mou…

‪No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare. Charles Baudelaire‬…

Dear Reader, My paternal grandmother, Grace “Mamaw” Evans, was a Godly woman. She was also a master marketer. Whether she was introducing someone at the flower shop she owned for as long a…

Three months ago, WordPress finally released React-powered Gutenberg to power its default content editing experience, triggering many people who are not happy with this change to look for alternatives…

Long time readers of mine may be aware that I used a ThinkPad X61T for the past decade. After the hinge on my second instance of the machine, I decided it was finally time to get a new laptop.…

My dad turns 81 today. He’s one of my best friends. He loves the color green. And, a few of my other friends have a birthday today (happy birthday Dave.) Lots of people don’t realize that…

When filming Raiders of the Lost Ark, Harrison Ford was too weak from a case of dysentery and the 130° Tunisian heat to handle a planned 3½ page fight scene. Ford suggested a more expedient option t…

Dear Reader, I often talk about standing on the shoulders of giants. I don’t always mean the people that developed the tools I use day to day to get my job done.  I stand on the shoulders of th…

Dear Reader, WordCamp’s have a concept that PHP conferences need to steal. A dedicated room for people to hang out and help each other with technical issues. Yes, every PHP conference has the ha…

Happy National Arduino Day from Misty Robotics. The post A Robot, A Puppy, and An Arduino appeared first on Feld Thoughts.…

I’ve been a slow reader this year, taking my time to work through books and I’m in the midst of quite a few very long books, so I decided to intersperse this one after I saw Marie had read it on I…

Paul is writing weeknotes. Here’s his latest. Amy is writing weeknotes. Here’s her latest. Aegir is writing weeknotes. Here’s his latest. Nat is writing weeknotes. Here’s…

writing gems like this under the handle "Psychedelic Warlord"…

Charlie Warzel writing for the NYT…

If you are looking for something powerful, creative, provocative, and beautifully done, go look at True Blue by Eliot Peper and team. In 2017, I wrote a post titled A Clever Short Story About Discrimi…

Do you sometimes feel like there’s so much to read and learn that your brain can’t take it anymore? It’s something most of us experience from time to time when we have too much to do and then ov…

Dear Reader, I met my three best friends, Paul, Keith, and Adam, at PHP conferences. Meeting people and making new friends is one of the major benefits of participating in a conference. I would not sa…