Skip to content

Jessitron

Search
  • Blog
  • Twitter
  • Patreon
  • Talks
  • Newsletter
  • Search
Search
  • Blog
  • Twitter
  • Patreon
  • Talks
  • Newsletter
  • Search

CSS

CSS for giving the extra width to the thing in the middle

September 23, 2022September 23, 2022

Today I wanted a form with a label on the left, a button on the right, and an input in the middle, with the input getting all the space. Here is a spell: Then in HTML, the parent container is the flex box, and the immediate children are the three items. (They have to be …

Read moreCSS for giving the extra width to the thing in the middle

Tags CSS

Fuzzy translucent background behind text in CSS

July 21, 2020July 21, 2020

I like this enough that I’m putting it here for reference. If anyone tells me how to improve it, I’ll update it here. The goal is to get some text to have a blurry white background behind it, like this text here. That’s especially useful when there’s an image behind it. Look! A CSS custom …

Read moreFuzzy translucent background behind text in CSS

Tags CSS, reference

Rules are not easy

July 7, 2019July 7, 2019

Sometimes in software design we get this idea, “We’ll make this a rule engine. Then the business can write the rules, and they’ll be able to change them without changing the code. That’ll make it more flexible.” 🤣 The rules are code; they change the behavior of the system. Rules interact in ways that are …

Read moreRules are not easy

Tags CSS, decisionmaking, Software Architecture

Why is CSS a thing?

July 6, 2019July 6, 2019

All I want is a web page. I want this one thing on the left and this other thing on the right — why is this so hard?? Can I just make a table in HTML like I used to do in the nineties? Why do I have to worry about stylesheets? and, why are …

Read moreWhy is CSS a thing?

Tags CSS, Web Development

CSS Positioning: a summary

December 30, 2018

I’ve been frustrated every time I try to grasp CSS for years. “I just want this on the left and this to be over here!” etc. Now I realize that CSS doesn’t work that way for very good reasons. In most programming, we give instructions for what we want to happen. But in CSS, it’s …

Read moreCSS Positioning: a summary

Tags CSS, reference

popular

  • PowerShell equivalent of find
    PowerShell equivalent of find
  • Working Skillfully in Complexity (for VDDD)
    Working Skillfully in Complexity (for VDDD)
  • Run an OpenTelemetry Collector locally in Docker
    Run an OpenTelemetry Collector locally in Docker
  • PowerShell for `rm -rf`
    PowerShell for `rm -rf`
  • Git Rebase inside IntelliJ IDEA
    Git Rebase inside IntelliJ IDEA

instagram

“All bodies our queer bodies” mural
Charity’s place has the best ideas
I actually wanted to put this in my story but I can’t find the button for that.
The book “spell of the sensuous” has made it ok to find presence and companionship with the more-than-human world.

meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org
  • Blog
  • Twitter
  • Patreon
  • Talks
  • Newsletter

Tags

abstraction agile architecture automation change clojure complexity concurrency design DevOps Docker Engineering functional functionalPrinciples Generativity git honeycomb Java javascript learning observability OO philosophy property-based testing reference ruby scala science Software Development symmathesy systems Systems Thinking teams testing thinkingFunctionally tistil typescript Web Development wit Yak Shaving

Archives

Search

© 2023 Jessitron, LLC
Scroll back to top