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Plannerama

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I’m pretty obsessed with organization and productivity systems, and regularly try to upgrade mine. Of course as my life situation changes my organizational needs do too. Currently I’m working with: Binder for 5.5″x8.5″ paper with monthly calendar, week-in-view pages, and a section for ongoing and long-term to do lists Staple-bound two-year calendar (monthly, small) for […]

Relative Position

image of pantograph copying device

Here, at great length, is the sequel to my post on aspect ratio, about vertical positioning. Again, horizontally, everything is easy – declare width: and left: as percentages, and as the screen size changes, they will change in tandem. For vertical positioning originally (i.e., almost a year ago – but then again, only almost a […]

Minimum Viable File Permissions

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The alpha version of a program I’m writing uploaded with whackadoodle file permissions, and after that experience and considering security for database connection information, I became curious about the minimum permission level for various kinds of files that would still allow the page to load and operate. I wrote a test page that has a […]

Conquering scrollbars

image of tangled scroll

So suppose you want to fix the sidebar on a Twenty Fifteen WordPress site, because most of the time it’s going to be short enough to fit entirely on the screen. And suppose you don’t want the nice wide scrollbar Internet Explorer (even 11) will put down the edge of your sidebar whether or not scrolling is happening or even possible. Let’s talk about that.

A little color fun

Screenshot of Color Words / Word Colors

Sitting around during some home repair yesterday, I made a page of hex color codes that spell words: Color Words / Word Colors. I did let 0 stand in for O, 5 for S, and 1 for I, though there are plenty of 3- and 6-letter words that use only the letters A through F, […]