Notices by Mia (web luddite) (mia@front-end.social)

If you're in the Denver/Englewood area, we're playing at Mutiny Information Cafe, 3pm on Saturday with Reposer.

All ages, no cover, anarchist bookstore

slipped a couple hours in the studio between work and band practice,

The narrative that #CSS was initially designed to be static, and only later became responsive with things like media, supports, container queries, and now if()… is maybe how things turned out?

But MQs were part of the original proposal – including document age queries, & user "relevance" queries.

This wasn't a big pivot in the vision of the language, but a more continuous project of realizing that vision in relation to changing author needs & browser capabilities over time.

I put them up on the web shop, if you're interested.

https://art.miriamsuzanne.com/product/nebula-soup-bowl

Some large noodle bowls that came out over the holidays. #pottery

One has a slight glaze blemish, but otherwise I'm happy with them. Using Rocky Mountain BMX clay.

Taking a break this week from filming a course to join the #CSS Working Group in Kobe (remote for me, thanks to US air travel).

This 'morning' (5pm-9pm) we decided on a name:

`display: grid-lanes`

That's what the new CSS layout feature is called. Still more related issues this 'afternoon' (10pm)

I often think about making a new browser. I mean, as a business it sounds awful. But as a product to design, that would be a top choice.

Browsers could help us make fun little websites with rss feeds, and follow our friends feeds. Your window to the web could also be your home online - customized & shareable, with open web standards.

(Not a bot that says likely words scraped of context. What a total lack of vision for the web)

Put myspace in a browser, you cowards.

If you're into new browser engines free from corporate control – maybe skip the latest 'benevolent dictator', and check out @servo

They have nightly snapshots you can install, and they're rolling out new features regularly:

https://servo.org

Wait, what?! I was just browsing @elly's very cool personal site, and I was like "I wonder how she handles the shuffle feature?" Cause I'm doing the same thing on my new site. And that's how I discovered she's using my <eight-ball> web component. Ha! She got it out in the world before I did.

Very cool personal site: https://www.ellyloel.com

If you appreciate the features I've helped develop - container queries, cascade layers, mixins & functions, scope, progress & interpretation, logical shorthands - consider supporting that work though open collective:

https://opencollective.com/oddbird-open-source

or bring me in to teach a workshop for your team:

https://www.oddbird.net/talks/

I'll be missing out on the big masonry conversation starting soon at the CSSWG meetings in Paris, because I'm not in Paris, and it starts at 1am here.

I did enjoy the recent Webkit blog post about item-flow: https://webkit.org/blog/17219/item-flow-part-2-next-steps-for-masonry/

But I need sleep before the end-of-day/7am scope topics.

The other day @davatron5000 shared a link to the new `stretch` keyword in CSS – and I saw a lot of questions about how it's different from 100% (or 100vh when doing full-screen layouts). So I made a quick video to show how these all work! #CSS

https://youtu.be/iZZXOuLxagE

I worked college summers on electrical crew. Even then, the staff electrician who trained me was just vibe wiring his way through dorms. We'd come behind & fix his work.

The attitude isn't new, but I never expected hype for incompetence. I hope there's always work for people who do the fixing.

In @OddBird stand up this morning, we're discussing the fact that CSS pixels are defined in reference to "a nominal arms length of 28 inches."

Does having a 28in arm make you better at CSS? Where do you measure from? Does the W3C have an official mannequin reference arm?

https://www.w3.org/TR/css-values-3/#ref-for-reference-pixel

July class registration is open at the pottery studio - 4 week beginner wheel throwing. I'll be teaching the tuesday night class:

https://www.kinshipdenver.com/group-pottery-classes/#signup

Hey y'all, I have a new workshop at the end of April - deepdive into modern CSS Layout techniques. Level up your team with a systemic understanding.

The intro video has a demo of #CSS grid areas. I’ll post more tips in the lead up. Early-bird pricing til April 12!

https://www.oddbird.net/workshops/cascading-layouts/

The oss 'benevolent dictator' model was always a bad one, always built on an imagined 'best way to get things done' which frames collaboration as impossible, and was always a setup for claiming the rich tech guys are the best guys.

@mynameistillian under learn more they say it's off by default and action is only required to turn it on

We have a special Winging It live stream next week, celebrating the birthday of the #CSS specification (Dec 17, 1996) – with @michelle, @kevinpowell, @5t3ph, and myself competing in a "CSS is Awesome" game show hosted by @stacy.

Tuesday, Dec 17 @ 1pm ET / 11am MT – join us!

https://youtube.com/live/fYfs6sKGciQ

I am very tired of conference talks that start by telling me

- everyone is excited
- these tools are the future
- now is the time to get on board
- you don't want to be left behind

You do not need to be excited for the machine they wish could replace you already