Keith J. Grant: Notes

Some random thoughts on the Solo trailer: A lot of exciting stuff (Donald Glover!)

Sometimes, it’s faster and easier to just add a <script> tag to the page and do the thing without your big framework.

Omnibear v1.0.0 is rolling out to Chrome and Firefox stores now!

The EU has passed the GDPR, prohibiting companies from harvesting customer’s personal information without specific a business need. https://www.cennydd.com/writing/a-techies-rough-guide-to-gdpr

Legalized gambling: reporting troll Twitter accounts and waiting to see which ones actually get their accounts suspended.

Coding from Home on a Snowy Morning Whose code this is I think I know.

Steps to get on the IndieWeb: Get a blog and post to it You’re on the IndieWeb!

“I’m Harvesting Credit Card Numbers and Passwords from Your Site.

An article titled “Frontend in 2017: the Important Parts” but doesn’t mention any of the amazing leaps forward in CSS that happened perfectly sums up our industry

Blogging advice for 2018: just hit publish

HTML needs a “preferred breaking space” character.

“So, implementors: build stuff which kills your own FB usage before trying to kill facebook.” 👏🏻 https://waterpigs.co.uk/notes/1480/

It's bug report weekend!

Microsoft has figured out that winning over the developers & designers will eventually win over the masses.

I think these are going to be big topics at conferences in the coming year https://twitter.com/fox/status/930232428790087680

Some interesting findings here, and the current WCAG 2.1 recommendation: text should resize up to 200%. https://alastairc.ac/2017/11/is-text-sizing-dead/

<input type="country"> probably won’t happen.

Is it just me, or does FF Nightly ask to be restarted twice each morning?

Last year, I felt uneasy about the moral implications of using an ad-blocker.

Considering releasing a stripped-down copy of my blog setup as a Hugo-based IndieWeb starter kit… 🤔

Potential CSS specs/concepts I most want to see made reality: Color functions Regions Container queries Subgrid

Trying to decide whether DateTimes in Go are better or worse than DateTimes in JavaScript

In retrospect, maybe we should have had another WiFi security protocol queued up

Video from my Connect Tech talk is up!

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As soon as this storm clears NOLA, it’s gonna be over ATL.

I got in the habit of using flex: 1 as shorthand for flex-grow: 1 and somehow keep forgetting that it breaks in IE 😖

Things learned when building a browser extension: Chrome will let you publish any old thing.

I already have the ability to tweet out more than 140 characters ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. 280 characters. 10,000 characters.

Posting live from on stage at @connect_js!

Interesting thread here on how Firefox rasterizes SVGs & the performance implications https://twitter.com/Gankro/status/909795286201065472

Universities: Let’s create WWW using HTML so information readily available Also universities: Let’s make research papers available only as PDFs

I believe 100% in “Clean Code” and also believe repetition is much better than the wrong abstraction.

I’m reversing my previous position: Twitter should drop the 140 char limit.

Test post from Omnibear in Firefox!