February 3, 2025

Client Relations and Color Gaslighting

Hey friends,

It's February already?! January just skated by like:

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Things I Wrote ✍️

When I was a young wee lad, full of fresh confidence and the boundless optimism of youth, the nature of client relationships was lost on me. In fact, I had to take my very first client to small claims court (a story for another day).

Looking back, this is what I would have told myself.

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Interesting Web Bits 🍿

• Dave Rupert has been slowing changing the background hue of his website by the day of the year. 👏👏
• I came across Jonas Tyroller's video of the hundreds of games he's built along the way.
• Adam Argyle shows us we can also create visual focus by pushing back elements.
• Chris Coyier talks about 'pace layering' as applied to the tech industry.
• Adam strikes again this week with a nice explanation of the new text-box-trim CSS property. I can't count the number of times I've had to visually fudge value to acheive an optical alignment! Soon that'll be relegated to the past, like float clears...