John's blog

Talking about technology (mostly)

I enjoyed reading this one today: Idempotence Now Prevents Pain Later. Some clear thinking.

Today via r/programming: HTML5 Tips. I think my favourite was the meter tag… or maybe the spellcheck attribute… lots of good tips over there.

This on r/programming today: CSS Tips. There are a lot of good tricks in there, this one was my fav:

.center {
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: center;       
}

…it centres content vertically and horizontally.

Some good tools and techniques listed over one Tools for Auditing CSS.

This on r/programming today: Font size is useless; let’s fix it. Interesting article, but I didn’t read it closely.

An excellent article on Unicode: Emoji under the hood.

An interesting article on data modelling and API design: Preemptive Pluralization is (Probably) Not Evil.