Los Angeles WordPress & web developer - Webinista, Inc.

One of my clients noted that their WordPress dashboard now took several seconds to load.

Popovers and dialogs have landed in every modern browser, but a new API may change how we create them.

Audio versions of blog posts and news articles are all the rage.

The popover is one of the most common interaction patterns on the web.

As you may have observed in part 1, default popover styles are pretty bare bones.

One of the underappreciated tech stories of 2024 is the ongoing battle between Automattic and WP Engine.

I'm easing my way back into WordPress development, with a focus on plugins.

Whereby is a fantastic video conferencing application.

Cross-posted to my personal blog.

I use quite a few animations on this site.

Much of my client work involves taking over an existing code base to fix what's wrong and add new features.

UPDATE NOVEMBER 13, 2023: CSS Nesting is now available in the current version of all major browsers.

This summer, Whereby, a Norwegian video conferencing startup, engaged Webinista to write a series of developer-focused tutorials to help customers get the most out of Whereby's REST API for video.

PHP 8 was released in 2020, but as with any language release, adoption takes time.

While updating a demo for CSS Master last year, I opened my browser's inspector and noticed a set of new-to-me CSS properties: margin-block-start and margin-block-end.

As part of its ongoing support and maintenance work with Easy Reader, Webinista, Inc. developed the South Bay Dining Guide, to give the publication an evergreen product to encourage visits and boost ad sales.

Stop Animation Unlike many parts of CSS, Flexible box layout or Flexbox can be difficult to understand just by using it.

CSS is an ever-evolving collection of specifications.

While updating the Conditional CSS chapter of CSS Master, I encountered a new-to-me feature of the CSS Conditional Rules Module: the selector() function.

I'm so pleased to announce that CSS Master is back with a third edition.

Flash logo from SVGRepo used under a CC0 license.

While creating the Happy New Year edition issue of the newsletter, I decided that it might be cool to animate the accompanying image.

If you use S3 to host static websites, I recommend enabling versioning.

UPDATE 2: You may also be interested in Wakamai Fondue, a font tool by PixelAmbacht.

In 2015, I wrote my first solo book on Cascading Style Sheets: CSS Master.

macOS as of Mojave no longer allows new cron jobs.

Updated June 2, 2023: dialog now enjoys native support in most major browsers.

Play animation (has audio) This is the third part of a three-part series.

Play animation (has audio) Not sure what Mastodon is?

Play animation (has audio) UPDATE: Noëlle Anthony also published a really great guide to Mastodon.

Well Played, Inc. the team behind GoFugYourself.com enlisted the help of Webinista with a server migration.

When knee-deep in a challenging project or two, my workaholic tendencies flare up.

Perhaps the biggest selling point for Facebook's UI library, React is reusability.

The idea of CSS variables has long been bandied about in web circles.

CSS color is about to get interesting.

Everything federal employees do in their work capacity is potentially subject to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

Lately social media has felt like an unending river of rage, angst, and bad news.

Allow me to illustrate why — in most cases — using @extend in Sass is a bad idea.

NOTE: I first posted this in 2016.