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  1. Response to "MaintainableCSS"

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    @adambsilver recently published MaintainableCSS which aims to be a best-practices guide for writing CSS. It's a good read and gives generally sound advice.

    I made a rather terse remark about it's similarity to BEM on twitter, and I'm hoping to clarify my thoughts in long form because I tend to be verbose and twitter isn't an appropriate medium for conveying nuanced thoughts. As this post is in response to MaintainableCSS, please be sure to go read it thoroughly before continuing otherwise much of this may not make sense.

  3. Autoselectable textareas

    Sometimes it's useful to provide text or code to users so that they can copy and paste it elsewhere. This might be an embeddable code snippet, a generated license key, or maybe a recipe. What's being copied doesn't matter so much, but how you allow users to copy it does.

  4. Simple Playlists Without JavaScript

    HTML is a powerful language that has a lot of features. In the current JavaScript- and framework-heavy front-end culture, it's easy to lose sight of the native features of HTML in favor of more JavaScript bloat. There are many instances where JavaScript is used to poorly replicate what HTML can do for free.

    In this post I'll cover how to make a simple embedded youtube playlist with only HTML.

  8. Useless Marketing Jargon

    ‘Premium’ is the least useful adjective when describing a product as it imparts exactly zero knowledge. Given that it means fuckall, you can safely replace the word with ‘fuckall’ in almost every instance of its use.