Keith J. Grant: Notes

Just a test of my new micropub server

MIO: Memories in Orbit is one of the best Metroidvanias I’ve ever played.

Wow, the Stranger Things finale is excellent.

Silksong is the best game I’ve played in years.

Hey Indieweb friends...

I was wrong about Zelda Tears of the Kingdom.

I think the key problem with recent Metallica is there’s no variety anymore.

The best CSS features to drop in 2023, in increasing order: Trig functions text-wrap: balance Nesting @property (close enough; FF will ship any day) nth-of selector added to :nth-child() Subgrid :has() Wide gamut color color-mix() Container queries

My 20-years-abandoned guitar skills have been coming back to me surprisingly quickly.

YouTube has a led me into a realm of videos on the Star Wars sequels.

I think we're going to regret CSS nesting, at least the way it’s defined in the spec.

“Sass will simply not support plain CSS nesting unless we can do so in a way that’s fully compatible with existing Sass behavior.”

I tried Arc Browser as my default browser for several months.

The silly low-chance thing I'd really like to see in Tears of the Kingdom is a revamped version of the Gerudu Valley music from Ocarina of Time.

Okay, it's time for me to start experimenting with posting short notes to my own website again.

Web Whiskey Weekend, here I come

That episode of the Great British Baking show where they make “American pies” but Paul makes it abundantly clear a) he doesn’t like American pies, and b) he doesn’t have a clue what constitutes an American pie.

Dear online merchants: “Your package has been shipped” does NOT mean “We have obtained a shipping number from the post office and will actually deliver your package to USPS in five days.”

For Father's day this year, my family got me gift cards to all the artisan coffee shops in Spokane, so I can test them all out.

Something that will always bug me: I still think const should be used for constants (like ALL_CAPS_CONSTANTS) and var should be the default.

I love what Svelte is going for, putting the framework in the compiler.

I tried to read game of thrones once.

Insane idea (don't flog me): NPM browser extension.

I will henceforth be referring to RSS as “the future from the past”

A young, naive me: “When I’m grown up, I’m going to have a set of set of matching coffee mugs, not some random assortment”

Don’t forget, kids: “Always bet on JavaScript” is and always has always been shorthand for “Always bet on the Open Web Platform”

I get frustrated with debugging & breakpoints in Firefox.

A search on the online store for computer mice, but with a filter that only shows me big, full-size mice that won't cramp my hand

Yeah, so I realize I still need to finish writing that final installment in my IndieWeb series.

Everyone likes to make a fuss over Celsius vs.

Amazing how there's a tendency (in myself & others) to think it would be easier to build your own tool than to simply learn one that already exists.

Rule of thumb: if a method in a React class doesn’t reference this (or only references one or two values on this), extract it out into a standalone util and pass those values in as params.

Deleting code to improve test coverage 💪🏻

I’m not one who typically has the problem of too many browser tabs open at once.

Nothing against React Suspense here, but… y’all realize that waiting a set delay before showing a loader is do-able with just a few lines of CSS, right?

I wish everybody arguing about the cascade (on both sides) understood the difference between cascade & inheritance, and was more explicit which one they mean when.

I have made a cocktail with London dry gin, lemon juice, and habanero cucumber syrup.

Currently chewing on this idea: Many frustrations with CSS come from unexpected behavior when we ask it to do conflicting things.

Building a React SPA with a top-level App component, routing, centralized application state, & API data fetching.

Giving next.js a try

Typed up several new drinks & added them to Sidecar over lunch.

When one browser dominates the market, bugs become features and open standards take a back seat.

We finished a re-watch of all six seasons of Community last night (though it was our first time seeing season 6, since it originally only appeared on a weird Yahoo streaming service).

I still say there’s something fundamentally wrong with our food distribution practices when one outbreak/incident means the entire country has to beware an entire product.

A fire in the fireplace and a dram of Talisker Storm 🥃

Chrome is simply better at debugging JavaScript.

Has anyone done a good exploration yet of good ways to integrate useReducer() and context?

So Connect.Tech is this week.

Today I made: Scramled eggs with Scottish smoked salmon, shallots, & tarragon Almond biscotti from scratch My famous burgers (the 5 y/o says they're the best anywhere)

The perfect use case for Web Components as they are currently defined: libraries like Bootstrap.