Noah Liebman | Blog

Something I love about speculative fiction is that it looks at trends that were nascent at the time of writing and extrapolates them out to their logical conclusions.

My parental leave ends today — a very bittersweet milestone.

Several weeks ago Westbrook Johnson asked whether it was possible to get the number of columns in an auto-fit/auto-fill grid in CSS.

In elementary school my favorite movie was Jurassic Park because dinosaurs!

Nested interactive elements — like clickable things inside other clickable things — are a no-no on the web.

A couple weeks ago I posted this survey on Mastodon: This just popped into my head and I have not thought about it deeply in the slightest, but slot { all: inherit; } Post by @noleli@mastodon.social View on Mastodon The yeas and nays were pretty evenly di…

When we had an HVAC service person out a few months ago, he pointed out that whoever installed our system did something right: on a long run of duct with vents along the way, it should get narrower as it goes on in order to keep the pressure up.

tl;dr The web, famously, is a medium that forces designers to be flexible.

At an Eicha reading a few years ago, some people brought up the plight of Palestinians at the hand of the state of Israel, and the plight of communities of color in the US at the hands of police.

I was recently asked to help debug an issue with autocomplete styles in <input> elements in Chrome.