James Cocker

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Freelance web developer in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Websitewww.purplespider.com
@marcoarment Sorry, Marco. Assume the wrapping is meant to be the same? (Would be surprised if I’m first to report this, but couldn’t see another mention).

Looks like someone on the BBC News dev team needs a copy of @belldotbz and @heydon's https://every-layout.dev.

(Here, CSS grid is used and set to always be 4 columns at a particular breakpoint, despite "Most watched" always having exactly 5 items.)

Relearn CSS layout

I wrote about our experience of the Rhodes wildfires to get it out of my head while it’s fresh and we are safe https://andy-bell.co.uk/rhodes-wildfires/
Rhodes wildfires - Andy Bell

You’ve probably already seen that Rhodes is currently being hammered with wildfires on the news. We’re currently, at the time of writing, in Rhodes on a family holiday and we’ve been affected by the wildfires. I’m going to note down our story and I’ll start by saying that we are safe, well and incredibly lucky […]

Andy Bell
Oh, and I also migrated the Universal Analytics for about 20 of my sites to their existing profiles on Fathom Analytics for good measure. At least I can still see everything in one place on Fathom! 🚀
Just spent the whole day dealing with GA4 (thanks Google!). None of my 50+ sites did anything above the basic page tracking, but on top of creating the new GA4 properties, I did have to update a bunch of very old ga.js tracking codes. Can't help but think Google could have made this whole process far less clunky.
Just lost a day asking ChatGPT to make different Chrome extensions for me. On the plus side, I can now easily see at a glance how many web pages I visit each day! 🤔
Ok, so I wimped out on going no-framework for this project, and ended up using #PicoCSS (prompted by a toot from ‪@pixolin‬). I still plan to try and loosely follow CUBE CSS, using Pico CSS as the global layer (as it's mostly classless).

Something non-designers understandably struggle with is how to make things look good. One of those things is long form content that’s well set and readable. Luckily, CSS makes this easy, you just have to know what to change. That’s exactly what we’re going to teach you in this article.

https://set.studio/some-simple-ways-to-make-content-look-good/

Some simple ways to make content look good - Set Studio

Something non-designers understandably struggle with is how to make things look good. One of those things is long form content that’s well set and readable. Luckily, CSS makes this easy, you just have to know what to change. That’s exactly what we’re going to teach you in this article.

Set Studio
I always had a hard time grasping exactly what the values in the fluid steps of utopia.fyi were representing. I went on a journey to find it out. In the mean time, I found a different approach with the same results as well! #css
https://crinkles.dev/writing/different-approaches-to-fluid-typography-and-layouts/
Different approaches to fluid typography and layouts

Fluid web page design can be more user-friendly, because it adjusts to the user's set up. There are several approaches to achieving this.

Sorted. A bottle of rubbing alcohol and 20 minutes of, erm, rubbing, later and the sticky rubber is all gone! Whoop, bring on that Cessna! #FlightSim