Mia (web luddite)

Sun, 10 Aug 2025 04:02:38 +0000

Tech rehearsal for Liberty by Any Means - a show about solitary confinement written and performed by Michael Clifton based on his experience. Only two performances tomorrow at the Savoy Denver.

https://grapefruitlab.com/shows/liberty/

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 16:41:18 +0000

The other day @davatron5000 shared a link to the new `stretch` keyword in CSS – and I saw a lot of questions about how it's different from 100% (or 100vh when doing full-screen layouts). So I made a quick video to show how these all work! #CSS

https://youtu.be/iZZXOuLxagE

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 06:03:44 +0000

I just used array.reduce() to expand an array with more items than it had before. the array got bigger in reduction, you fools. I've tricked you! Chaos is unleashed!

put that in your pipe and iterate on it

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 04:41:26 +0000

I haven't posted pots in a week? I should fix that. Here's how the sake set came out – one of my first experiments with the New Mexico IronStone.

Wed, 30 Jul 2025 20:21:52 +0000

CSS mixins & functions are coming! And the best way to prepare is by re-visiting CSS variables.

Don’t let the Guaranteed Invalid value & Invalid at Computed Value Time behavior trip you up. Watch my CSS Day talk, or book a workshop to go in depth with modern #CSS!

https://www.oddbird.net/talks/mixins/

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 04:35:43 +0000

I worked college summers on electrical crew. Even then, the staff electrician who trained me was just vibe wiring his way through dorms. We'd come behind & fix his work.

The attitude isn't new, but I never expected hype for incompetence. I hope there's always work for people who do the fixing.

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 07:47:58 +0000

I guess that's actually +16% to achieve the right size after 14% shrinkage. Why is everything math? I made myself a calculator:

https://codepen.io/editor/miriamsuzanne/pen/YPyWgXg

I know a million of these exist already, but this is the one I made. I bet there's a simpler way to get the nearest 16th as a fraction?

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 05:28:18 +0000

I can say "I spent some time in the studio for my birthday" but the truth is I spend some time in there most days now.

Was planning to practice that sphere a few times, but someone had a Stanley, so I took measurements and gave it a shot. (+14% for shrinkage)

Thu, 24 Jul 2025 16:55:59 +0000

I've been exploring different ways to interact with a user preferred font size. Could the max() function work better than a classic px-to-em conversion?

Along the way: How Best Practice ruined text-only zoom! 😬

Still thinking about units & type in #CSS …

https://www.oddbird.net/2025/07/22/size-preferences/

Thu, 24 Jul 2025 16:45:12 +0000

as a child, I always wanted to be older. And I've been achieving that goal pretty consistently. I've put in my hours. Every year, I get farther than I did the year before.

Wed, 23 Jul 2025 02:34:08 +0000

It's not surprising, I also get frustrated learning new things - but as someone who soaks up emotions, it's the part of teaching pottery i wasn't prepared for. I feel like the first lesson needs to be stopping the wheel to breathe.

Fri, 18 Jul 2025 06:10:31 +0000

I made this strange turnip-like vase a couple months back, but never got around to photos. Maybe I'll revisit the concept with a bit more finesse at some point.

At another spot on the alignment chart, some small planters in progress - with deceivingly pastel unfired glaze over not-yet-speckled clay

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 16:50:20 +0000

I'll be Winging It live today with @jamessw & @Kilian to talk about developing tools for developers!

An hour later than usual @ 2pm ET

https://youtube.com/live/ou6ViXTflXw

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 04:23:38 +0000

I've been tracking my pottery projects in a spreadsheet, but i keep thinking of better ways.

There are a few apps available, but all of them (so far) were Not Invented Here, and that bugs me. Do better!

Seems hard to track in Obsidian. Maybe coda?

The world's my oyster / hard to open

Tue, 15 Jul 2025 21:48:42 +0000

My enby cousin says it's acceptable gendering to call them a manabouttown – which is how I discovered the synonym "flaneur" with layabout vibes, and now I'm having a gender crisis.

"While flaneuring one has time to stop and look" according to wiktionary.

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 21:30:34 +0000

Playing with vase forms, but maybe approaching milk can vibes?

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 21:03:22 +0000

Cutting more custom ribs and gauges for pottery - inner profile of a coffee pour-over (using old forge creation's measurements), and outer profile of a small planter

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 17:41:41 +0000

We created Susy for CSS layout on 13 July, 2009 – 16 years ago! – & deprecated the project in 2020. But the Susy pages are still our most visited content on the @OddBird website.

If you're interested in learning modern #CSS approaches, I'm working on a course:

https://www.oddbird.net/learn/courses/design-with-code/

Sat, 05 Jul 2025 01:26:36 +0000

Drying, trimming, glazing…

Thu, 03 Jul 2025 17:55:22 +0000

We had an interesting CSSWG discussion yesterday about how the `&` selector should behave inside `@scope` - and I think we made a big improvement. Here's a quick explanation of the change.

(the issue was raised by @kizu)

https://css.oddbird.net/scope/parent-selector/