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A good candidate for the Blog Post of the Year from Zach Holman. I think Eric Portis’ “w descriptors and sizes: Under the hood” is up there too, but perhaps even nerdier. Ooooh, also Frank Chimero’s “The Good Room” is up there. But I digress.

Zach’s article is as educational as it is funny.

But yeah, this UTC initialism doesn’t make any sense. Let’s dig into this a little more.

So you’ve got a bunch of scientist types around …

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This isn’t a comprehensive guide to centering things. We have that!

This is just a little observation about old and new. One of the trickier things related to centering in CSS is when you need to center both vertically and horizontally and you don’t know the width or height of what you are centering. Vertical centering being the extra tricky of the two.

Believe it or not, there was a way to do that even in IE 8. The trick …

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I don’t think this is an epidemic or anything, but I’ve seen it done a few times and even advocated for. This is what I mean…

You go to Google Fonts and pick a font like Open Sans, and it gives you either a <link> or an @import with a URL there in which to ready this font for usage on your site.

You can take a peek in there and see what it returns…

It’s just some @font-face declarations, …

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We’ve been working with Jetpack around here as a sponsor. It’s a great match because as someone with a bunch of self-hosted WordPress sites, Jetpack is one of those no-brainer plugins for me. Jetpack can do a ton of good things for any site in a variety of very different ways. Here’s one way to think about it: it brings the power of WordPress’ own massive servers to you.

For now, let’s just focus on one angle of what …

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Welcome to Part 2 of this mini-series on building a RSS viewer with Vue. In the last post, I walked through how I built my demo using Vue.js and Vuetify on the front end and Webtask on the back end. When I built that initial version, I knew it was exactly thatmdash;an “initial” version. I took some time to work on a few updates, and while I won’t dare call this a “perfect” version, I do think I’ve made …

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