Things I’ve (re)learned recently
Miscellaneous little things that came up while I was working on the Flickety/MLA filterable gallery. The plurality are about jQuery’s AJAX command $.load().
Author: Rebecca
Gilding the Gallery: MLA + Flickity
Applying the JavaScript carousel program Flickity to a WordPress gallery, or more properly a Media Library Assistant gallery, for responsiveness and easy updating.
CSS z-order is odd
I’ve had some problems recently that I finally determined were just CSS acting the way it’s supposed to, which is not how my intuition told me it should. (Neither the first nor the last time for that, I’m sure.) They were all elements of the page failing to show despite being visible from the developer […]
Games, games, and more (DOS) games
My sister sent me a link to an article in Mental Floss where they picked out ten items from a recent addition to the Internet Archive: a large collection of MS-DOS games. Excitement! Recently I’ve started playing video games a bit – escape and match-3 games, to distract myself on the elliptical machine or rest […]
Gaining CSS Intuition
Many if not most of the difficulties I run into with CSS (by which I do not mean to include times when I simply don’t know the desired command) come from not having the right intuition – where in the hierarchy does the style need to go, and why? What is this measurement relative to? […]
Learning PHP Online
A compendium of online resources for learning PHP, in something of a progressive order.