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Had a great conversation with @npub1jpyl...yfwv today. We both toyed around with the web as a hobby in the late 90s before eventually turning it into a career much later on. We talked a lot about that, but then got into accessibility. I just loved how she referred to it as "a heart thing" 😊 Full conversation will be up on the second channel in a few weeks (I actually have a backlog over there now!), but you can always subscribe so you don't miss out 😉 📺 https://www.youtube.com/@GeneralMusings 🎙️

General Musings with Kevin Powell

I have a newsletter where I usually start things off with pretty long general musings before I share the content I've created in the previous week,...

Caught something over the holidays that gave me a cough. I even lost my voice at one point. Been feeling fine for the past ~4 days, though, so figured it's time to get back on track with my recordings! Hit record, say like four words and then I start coughing like crazy and it just won't stop 🙃

I was going to hold off until Monday, but I got all the thumbnails, end screens, and whatnot finished, so figured there was no reason to wait :) New, free course: HTML & CSS for Absolute Beginners

a11y question: Is there a situation where you wouldn't want to use a `role="alert"` on error messages for form submissions?

I'm working on a new free course to replace my HTML & CSS for beginners playlist which is now 8 years old. Figured it could use an update! That old playlist has 25 videos in it... I've managed to record over 60 for the new version. Seemed like a great idea until it came time to edit them, lol

Last week I had some high-ish priority things on my to do list, so naturally I ended up working on a side-project instead. I told myself I'd get to the important things this week... instead, I started a new side-project.

In this week's newsletter, I talk about how teaching CSS broke my habit of chasing quick wins, and manage to compare my journey in CSS to my days of avoiding the grind in World of Warcraft 😊 You can read it here, and if you like it, sign up so you don't miss any of them:

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Weekly newsletter, where I talk about tangentially-related front-end development topics and share what I've been up to in the last week, plus any c...

So many amazing things coming to CSS these days, but I have a feeling anchor positioning is going to be one that gains traction pretty quickly because it solves such a big pain point and is pretty easy to use. Explored it in this video: Browser support is far from perfect atm, but as I show in the video the polyfill is great.

GitHub

GitHub - oddbird/css-anchor-positioning: Polyfill for CSS Anchor Positioning

Polyfill for CSS Anchor Positioning. Contribute to oddbird/css-anchor-positioning development by creating an account on GitHub.

One thing with native CSS nesting that is constantly catching me off-guard is that you can't nest inside of pseudo-classes/elements. Was playing with popovers and you can't put a @​starting-style inside of :popover-open... took me way to long to realize what was wrong. I knew this was a limitation of how it works with pseudo-elements, so I should have realized it sooner... so I'm partially writing this to let others know, and also hoping it helps me remember 😆