F1 might be the best Jerry Bruckheimer movie I have ever seen. It is also a very entertaining movie to watch. It deserves the theather experience if you have a nice theater near you.

Chris Coyier may have posted the coolest thing I have seen in a long time. I had no idea about the ::scroll-button() pseudo-element, but now I am really hoping it doesn't take Apple an eternity to implement this in Safari.

Just getting started with Drupal Single Directory Components and I think I'm really going to like this. Building a theme this way will take some planning but it's going to be worth it.

Always make room in the web design / development process for happy accidents. You never know when you might stumble upon a gem. Also, it's almost always a stumble. One does not carefully tip-toe into a happy accident.

The folks at OddBird built the wonderful color contrast checker OddContrast. Unlike the limited WebAIM Contrast Checker, this one allows you to enter in colors in any color format and to optionally limit colors selections by a color gamut. Great for working with oklch colors.

As I get older, I find it takes more effort to discover new music, but it is always worth the effort. Yesterday it was Creepy Nuts, a Japanese hip-hop duo. Great silly energy.

Note to self: when using the min() and max() functions in CSS, values have to have units. You cannot write something like min(0, calc(400px - 100%)); it has to be min(0px, calc(400px - 100%)).

Today I discovered Hotei and it's a good day. Currently jamming to the "Strangers" album.

Okay, a piece of really poor UX design is driving me mad: in the Apple Music app, I cannot tell, just by looking at it, if the "Favorite" button is showing that I have 'favorited' the song or not. Worse, I think the button has a different appearance depending on whether or not you are in the app or in the control center. It is a little trivial detail in a very big app but it is nettlesome.

It is a useful reminder that the best creative work often occurs as a result of project constraints that initially seem quite limiting. Constraints are guardrails protecting against a lack of focus and a substrate for crystallization of ideas.

If I am using ChatGPT or Google Gemini or GitHub Copilot to get answers to code questions or examples of code – which I always check against documentation before using – am I learning new code techniques in the process? Or do these tools serve as a crutch that will ultimately make me a weaker programmer?

If my website starts to look more and more like Daring Fireball, well... I guess I am probably doing something right.

Was reading about CSS text-box (from Friday Front-End) and I can see isolated cases where it would be useful. But my own framework is all about creating a useful baseline grid. Using text-box would seem to make that an impossible goal. I’m not a fan.

I was thinking about how the show Severence lives in the shadow cast by David Lynch and Twin Peaks. I hope that the Severance show runners draw some wisdom from the past and choose not to give us all the answers. Let Lumon keep some mysteries. It’s what he would do.

I am weeping into my black coffee and sobbing over my cherry pie.

Does Storybook really require you to be building an app from some sort of framework? Is there no vanilla HTML/CSS implementation? What an immediate turn-off. I was considering replacing Fractal (which might no longer be maintained?) but hard pass on Storybook.

Some wisdom I am borrowing to share here: “We live in a society, not an economy.”