March 25, 2024

Spring Break and The Sound of CLI

Hey friends,

Spring Break is here — but hey, not for you, fellow working adult! (Unless you ARE actually on Spring Break, in which case I hope you have a great one!)

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Words I Wrote

🎵 The hills are alive... with the sound of user setups. (Eh, that's much less exciting, eh?)

Regardless, I use the terminal constantly and I've collected a few random utilities along the way and well...

🎶 "Do, Re, CLI! 🎶 These are a few of my favorite CLI things...

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Interesting Web Bits

• LukeW reminds us to not pinball our users around the screen.
• Last week I talked about feeling old 👴... this week David Walsh feels the same.
• This one got me since I publish with Eleventy: If you don't specify your posting time in Eleventy it defaults to midnight.
• Ed Zitron wonders if we're slowly watching the internet die...
• Apparently parrots love playing tablet games? 🦜
• Someone 3D printed a Macintosh... Because, why not? 🤷

Lots of great demos this week:

• 3D Card Hover Effect - nice use of vanilla JS + CSS to create a nice playing card effect with lighting handled by radial gradients.
• Outline to fill SVG CSS Animations
• Smoothly handling orientation change for View Transitions
• CSS ::backdrop now inherits from its originating element