5 days agoMember-onlyNew Client’s Website Had Some Interesting “Problems”Whilst officially “Retired” from accessibility and efficiency consulting, I still get people banging down the door offering me work. In a way it feels good to feel needed, and sometimes I really just wish folks would leave me alone. Honestly which is which is determined more by my health day…Embezzlement21 min readEmbezzlement21 min read
Published in CodeX·Mar 8Member-onlyAdam Wathan (Part 2): The Ignorance On Full DisplayIn part 1 I discussed how I find Adam Wathan and those like him to be frauds. Phoneis. Pretenders. They dance the edge of being predators, but until there’s genuine malice, their deception feels more like a reek of ignorance of the most basic reasons HTML is separate from CSS. …Tailwind16 min readTailwind16 min read
Published in CodeX·Mar 6Member-onlyAdam Wathan (Part 1): Deluded, Predator, Or An Outright Fraud?Generally — as much as some folks might doubt it — I don’t like to do hit pieces directed at individuals. For years I’ve tried — and admittedly oft failed — to maintain two mantra: 1) Attack the work, not the person 2) Never attribute to malice that which can…Tailwind26 min readTailwind26 min read
Published in CodeX·Feb 10Member-only“Poor Man’s” CMS From The Ground Up — Part 3, Spit And PolishIn the last outing we reached the point of this new system outputting markup in an extremely basic template. This includes a default page, as well as error handling for “not found” (404) and “invalid URI” (one of many possible 400). It is so simple there are — so far…Web Development18 min readWeb Development18 min read
Published in CodeX·Feb 10Member-onlyAn Open Letter To Domino’sFor the past week I’ve been under the weather. Ok, that’s being polite about it. Disrupted my work thus delaying my ability to even work on articles here. Really haven’t been up to cooking, and am running out of — and getting sick of — frozen meals. To that end…Web Development7 min readWeb Development7 min read
Published in CodeX·Feb 6Member-only“Poor Man’s” CMS From The Ground Up — Part 2, Outer Markup And TemplatesIn our previous outing I got everything right up to — but not including — actually outputting anything complete. Now it’s time to make it actually do that output. I’ve also chosen a name for it. Prior systems I’ve build the “brickwork” without database was called “Squire” and a complete…HTML15 min readHTML15 min read
Published in CodeX·Feb 5“Poor Man’s” CMS From The Ground Up — Part 1, Planning And DefinesIn a previous article I talked about how going back to assembly language changed how I think about solving problems. I already look at things quite differently from the industry as a whole, but it was interesting to see how many allegedly “good practices” I’d adopted that may have just…HTML13 min readHTML13 min read
Published in CodeX·Feb 4Member-onlyHow Going Back To 16 Bit Assembly Is Changing My Web DevelopmentFor those of you who don’t follow me regularly, I started out coding in machine language. Well, I guess you could call it assembly, excepting the assembler was me. Manually turning the opcode mnemonics into hex, that I’d then enter in binary on the toggle switches of my Cosmac ELF…HTML14 min readHTML14 min read
Published in CodeX·Jan 29Member-onlyUnderstanding CSS Position:StickyIn trying to help various forum users all over the web,I realized that how position:sticky seems to confuse people. How it works in relation to the positioning attributes (top, left, bottom, right) is very poorly explained. In general that the positioning values do not move things around as-per how they…HTML4 min readHTML4 min read
Published in CodeX·Jan 29Member-only“I Made This In CSS” Good For A LaughLately over on Muskie the apartheid trust fund baby’s dumpster fire — you may know it as “Twitter” — there’s been a trend of people posting random photographs and saying “I made this in CSS.” It seems to be for jackasses to mock those of us who can actually make…HTML3 min readHTML3 min read
