Geoff Graham

I love coming across little overlooked CSS gems, like the gradien (grad) and turn (turn) units that Ken Bellows uncovers in his post explaining them. I don’t know, maybe y’all are already aware of them, but they’re certainly new to me.

They’re additional options for dealing with angles, where degrees (deg) and radians (rad) are more commonly known. I’m partial to degrees anytime I’m working with rotations. But now that I know … Read article “Gradians and Turns: the quiet heroes of CSS angles”

Andy Adams released a book for aspiring WordPress freelancers. It’s meant to take a lot of the guesswork and the roadblocks that many folks often hit when making the decision to fly solo and rely on WordPress development for a stable source of work and income.

Aside from being included in it (and Andy being an all-around great guy), I want to share the book with y’all because WordPress and freelancing are two topics I care deeply about, particularly because … Read article “Successful WordPress Freelancing”

Styling and accessibility are often at odds with each other. Scott O’Hara has this repo that shows how the two can work really well together in the context of form controls.

The trade-offs between native and styled controls remind me of Eric Bailey’s case study on focus styles:

A common misconception is that the focus style can only use the outline property. It’s worth noting that :focus is a selector like any other, meaning that it accepts the full