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Turing complete(ish).

Programming CSS

A language so powerful that we have to stop ourselves from using all its features.

Interesting look at whether CSS can be considered Turing complete and thus, despite all conventional wisdom, an actual programming language.

Apparently in the last decade or so when I wasn’t really paying attention, it became Cool™ to shit on CSS. Which, as someone who grew up doing things like radically transforming my profile page in Gaia Online with the power of CSS alone, I find really—

Okay, I was going to say “odd” here but it’s not “odd” at all, is it? It’s frustrating. Because people shit in CSS because it’s, a) associated with girls doing things like modifying their Gaia Online profiles, and thus b) feminized and scorned.

Same as it ever was, I guess…

2019-01-07T08:24:59+10:0017th May, 2019|Tags: css, culture, tech|
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Men come from JavaScript, women from CSS.

CSS dismissal is about exclusion, not technology

It’s that time again. Regular like clockwork, it seems to happen each September. Something happens, and suddenly webdev twitter is taken over with a battle royale over the value of CSS. Time for half the front-end development world to dis...

I admit I haven’t paid much attention to webdev trends in the last decade or so, so I hadn’t heard about the whole “CSS-in-JavaScript” thing… nor about its gendered element.

That being said, suddenly the shitty fucking code in a whole bunch of websites is making a whole bunch of sense…1

  1. Also, while I’m on the subject, if you have a website that won’t load anything at all unless third-party JavaScript is enabled? Don’t.↩
2018-09-20T12:01:10+10:006th March, 2019|Tags: css, culture, javascript, tech, webdesign|
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Cascading oil sheets.

Pure CSS Oil Painting - by Diana Smith aka cyanHarlow

Pure CSS Oil Painting - by Diana Smith aka cyanHarlow

Holy heck this isn’t an image. It’s an painting done entirely in CSS. And there’s more.

(These are, incidentally, designed to be viewed in Chrome. Looking at them in something else, e.g. whatever Internet Explorer is called nowadays, is interesting in the sense that it shows some of the “seams”. It’s incredible work either way.)

2018-05-09T07:45:12+10:002nd November, 2018|Tags: art, css, design, webdesign|
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CSS tricks.

7 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do with CSS

CSS and JavaScript, believe it or not, are starting to overlap as CSS adds more functionality. When I wrote 5 Ways that CSS and JavaScript Interact That You May Not Know About, people were surprised at how CSS and JavaScript have come to overlap.  Today I will highlight seven tasks you can accomplish with CSS …

So did you know you can do things like image tinting and sepia filtering with CSS alone? I did not know this! Now I do.

2015-11-25T13:42:42+10:0012th July, 2014|Tags: css, tech, webdesign|
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CSS stripes.

Stripes in CSS | CSS-Tricks

Stripes are pretty easy to do in CSS these days. CSS gradients via the background-image property really got our back. I thought I'd document some variations in one easy to reference place. Normal Colored Diagonal Stripes Diagonal stripes are easy to pull off thanks to repeating-linear-gradient(): background:

Truly do we live in a wondrous age! I remember when image-based “stripe generators” were the go-to web tool when designing a site.

Aah, historic design trends. Always so cringeworthy.

2015-05-13T08:56:18+10:0011th June, 2014|Tags: css, tech, webdesign|
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