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  1. Light/Dark mode and the bfcache A watercolor painting of a carriage being pulled by mysterious animals. The carriage and the surrounding landscape are painted as black silhouettes on the top half of the image, with a black sun above. Then, on the bottom half of the image their mirror reflection is painted in white against a black backround, with a red sun below.

    Solving a tricky problem with bfcache that I ran into when building my site's Settings page.
    (Art by Kim Diaz Holm)

  2. Note #34

    Weird Web October 2025 is happening!

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  3. Note #30

    Behold, the current Chrome browser experience now that they’ve fully upgraded to Manifest 3 (killing adblockers).

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  4. Note #26

    It can be tricky to test Javascript code on mobile when you’re using Web APIs that require a secure (HTTPS) context, e.g. the DeviceOrientationAbsolute event.

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  5. Note #24

    Here’s a fun SVG trick I just learned. If you set the fill or stroke properties to currentColor using CSS, your SVG will be the color of the text around it.

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  6. Note #10

    TIL that Chrome has a great built in Node JS profiler.

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  7. Note #9

    Tip for sorting lists using CSS!

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  8. Note #8

    And now I’ve gone down a rabbit-hole about the <link> rel attribute!

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  9. Note #7

    I was just reading Taliesyn Walker’s post about RSS and TIL that you can add a <link> element to your website that points to your RSS feed!

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  10. Note #2 A screenshot of the Chrome Dev Tools Elements pane, with an HTML element selected, and the right click context menu open. Highlighted in the menu is the Capture node screenshot option.

    I recently learned about the Chrome Dev Tools “Capture node screenshot” button. It’s super handy for demos of new UI features, or for writing a retrospective doc.

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  11. Weird Web October 2024: A Retrospective A tie-dye background with the words

    Reflections on doing WWO24