6 hours agoMember-onlyBetter Understanding ColourspacesIn my recent article “Light/Dark Toggles? Amateur Hour!” I use a mix of HSL, RGB, and YCbCr to accomplish an easy way to colourize a page and maintain high legibility… but if you don’t know colourspaces much of that article might have gone over your head. I’ve had a lot…Colors12 min readColors12 min read
Published inCodeX·1 day agoMember-onlyLight/Dark Template Toggles? Amateur Hour!One of the boons to accessibility of late has been the ability to (in some cases, support is sketchy) detect if the user is using a light or dark theme on their OS and follow suit with your site template. Failing that, we can add a toggle to turn light/dark…HTML15 min readHTML15 min read
Published inCodeX·Sep 26Member-onlyENOUGH With The PHP HateMost of your claims are outdated nonsense anyways! It’s almost a comic tragedy that the people who insist on trying to use a language built for client-side code to perform server-side tasks; that has endless issues, bugs, and quirks; requiring so many workarounds people have built entire transpilers to…PHP17 min readPHP17 min read
Published inCodeX·Sep 26Member-onlyHTML 5 <dialog> : More Proof Of What Modern “Web Standards” Bodies Actually AreFrom the first time I was introduced to HTML 5, I felt like it was made by people who never truly embraced HTML 4 Strict. It’s not as much of a love letter to HTML 3.2 …HTML7 min readHTML7 min read
Published inCodeX·Sep 24Member-onlyMy Take On The “Unity” FiascoI’ve had a lot of folks — even non-programmers — ask me about this one. Honestly my answer? I saw this coming YEARS ago! Not so much with Unity, but with how so many of these systems made it simple for non-programmers to be suckered into THINKING they could be…Unity8 min readUnity8 min read
Published inCodeX·Sep 23Member-onlyTypeScript : A Task Complexity MismatchSome might find this hard to believe given my current stance on it, but I was an early adopter of TypeScript. Long before it became hot and trendy., when people were still fighting its adoption, I was testing. But the more I used it, the more I soured on it…JavaScript11 min readJavaScript11 min read
Published inCodeX·Sep 17Member-onlyUsing HTML And CSS Properly — Part 3 of 3 — Example Site Style And BehaviorSorry this part took so long. Highest paying work comes first. Continued from here Now I’ll do y’all a solid and start out with the money shot. You can find the completed template here: Jason Knight As an accessibility and efficiency consultant I can streamline both your web presence and your workplace.cutcodedown.com As with all my examples the directory: https://cutcodedown.com/for_others/medium_articles/htmlCSSProperly/HTML15 min readHTML15 min read
Published inCodeX·Sep 6Member-onlyAre JavaScript Minification Tools Getting Too “Try Hard?”Note this article was not on my planned schedule. It came up whilst doing work that pays better than writing here, but I just had to get this out there. In web development JavaScript minification is a quick, dirty, and easy way to squeeze a hair more speed out of…JavaScript11 min readJavaScript11 min read
Published inCodeX·Aug 26Member-onlyUsing HTML And CSS Properly — Part 2 of 3 — Example Site MarkupIn the first article of this series I outlined the history, reasoninng, and logic behind HTML that it seems most people never seem to grasp. …HTML22 min readHTML22 min read
Aug 26Everything I've read indicates that the H1 is specific to a document, not an entire collection of…32Michael WongA document consists of multiple PAGES. Think on that.A document consists of multiple PAGES. Think on that. My next article in the series is going to drive home why the SEO trickery is full of manure. It has the structure: <h1>Jason Knight</h1> <h2>Semantic Accessible Markup Is Easy</h2> <h2>What I Do</h2> <h3>Web Accessibility</h3>…2 min read2 min read
