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Everything tagged Web Design, wherever it's filed, newest first.
Kaybl turns a Plex or Jellyfin library into something that feels like flipping channels. The hard part isn't the channels. It's drawing one guide that works on a TV, a phone and a desktop.
Thread: The design notebook ↗Six colors sampled from a screenshot of a dark RSS reader, the rules that keep amber from turning into a Halloween theme, and what the contrast math actually says.
Thread: The design notebook ↗Massimo Vignelli spent sixty years proving you need a grid, a handful of typefaces and a lot of discipline. What that looks like when the page is a browser window.
Thread: The design notebook ↗How this site borrows the warmth of early-'90s Apple ads (editorial type, cream paper, slate ink) and why the fake menu bars and little beige Mac didn't make the cut.
Thread: The design notebook ↗Hitting print on a recipe blog usually gets you five pages of sidebar. Here's how the recipes on this site print just the card, and why visibility:hidden was the wrong first try.
Thread: Building this notebook ↗Your scroll area has overflow:auto, the layout is 100vh, and the whole page scrolls anyway. Blame the automatic minimum size of flex items, and fix it with one line.
Thread: Building this notebook ↗101 old posts, three versions of a design, and one very specific idea about what a personal website should feel like.
Thread: Building this notebook ↗The site looked perfect on my machine and wrong everywhere else. The sneaky reason, and how to self-host web fonts properly.
Thread: Building this notebook ↗The folder layout and naming rules I use for a pile of old Mac software, and the small PowerShell script that does the renaming without losing the original names.
Thread: The retro workbench ↗Find project folders that haven't changed in N days, zip each one to an archive location with the date of its last change, verify it, and optionally clear out the original.
Thread: File wrangling ↗Switch workstations to High Performance (or Ultimate Performance) by GUID, restore the plan if the image hid it, and don't end up with five copies of it.
Thread: Packaging with ConfigMgr ↗