Graham Harper

@grahamharper
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Designing analytics platforms for UnitedhealthGroup from Dublin, Ireland. Tootin’ about front-end dev, UX, leadership, productivity and tech. I’m a post-modern vegetarian, I eat meat ironically.
Personalhttp://grahamharper.ie
CodePenhttps://codepen.io/grahamharper
Workhttps://www.optum.com

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I'm tired boss

I've been building an RSS reader for the past year. No unread counts, no inbox to clear. Just a river that flows at its own pace.

Today it's live on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. I wrote about everything that went into it.

https://www.terrygodier.com/current

#rss

Current

An RSS reader that doesn't count. What happens when you stop treating your feeds like an inbox and start treating them like a river.

Terry Godier
@cabel watched your talk when it came out and again yesterday. Really enjoyed it. It’s truly a Delicious Burger.

Step 1: install shortcut

Step 2: “Add a control” in Control Center, “Run Shortcut,” and select the newly installed shortcut

Step 3: Profit!

Download here: https://snazzy.fm/eP

Or add manually:

This single-step Apple Shortcut is a GAME CHANGER. No more going to Settings -> Apps -> and then finding the app.

Just swipe from Control Center, run the shortcut, and you’re automatically redirected!

facts 🗣️🗣️🗣️
say it louder for the mfers in the back

@shibbles at @webdirections

Easier layout with margin-trim from @jensimmons on the webkit blog

https://webkit.org/blog/16854/margin-trim/

#FrontEnd #WebDev #CSS #WebDesign

Easier layout with margin-trim

If you write a lot of CSS, you are familiar with those moments when you aren’t quite sure how to accomplish what you want to accomplish.

WebKit

I'm not sure our best practices for responsive & fluid #CSS typography are actually *the best*.

On my own site, using the widely accepted approach, a user preference of 16px gives me ~24px font. A pref for 24px gives me ~36px.

Where did we go wrong?

https://www.oddbird.net/2025/02/12/fluid-type/

Reimagining Fluid Typography

Are we responding to the right inputs?

OddBird

Clever little nostalgia machine that scrapes YouTube for old iPhone videos circa 2009-2012.

https://walzr.com/IMG_0001

Amazing how a short time ago feels like a long time ago and how perception of the attributes of our media formats affects us.

IMG_0001

As of Chrome 131 you have more options to style `<details>` and `<summary>`.

You can now use the `display` property on these elements, and also use a `::details-content` pseudo-element to style the part that expands and collapses.

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/styling-details

More options for styling <details>  |  Chrome for Developers

You can now set the display type and also style the container for the part that expands and collapses using the new ::details-content pseudo-element.

Chrome for Developers