July was a bit of a mixed bag of events and feelings, including having my second covid jab, celebrating our 18th wedding anniversary and also our first restaurant visit in nearly two years.
Work
- Continued working on the content for the Surbiton Tyre and Wheel website
- Created a 404 error page
- UX, accessibility and performance reviews and fixes
- Made some changes to the Good Business Talking website - client wanted to show the entire episode description but to only be shown in full by clicking the show more button
- Added a new page to my clients' website - fourpoints.net/impact - they needed me to help them embed 3rd party scripts to show that show their charitable impact
Freelance
- Started planning the redesign of this website
- Started designing a landing page for my business website
Personal
- Had my second covid jab 💉💉- I only had minor side effects from both jabs, had a really bad headache with the second - but that was it!
- I celebrated our 18th wedding anniversary with my wife
- Had our 1st restaurant visit in about a year and a half since B.C. (Before Covid) 😁
Sides
- Started learning about generative NFT art - buying and also creating
- Bought a trezor cold storage wallet for my crypto
- Also bought my first piece of NFT art 🎉
📺 Watching
- The Big Bang Theory
- The Mist
- Orphan Black
- The Sinner
🎧 Listening
- The Prodigy
- New Dave album
- Dance music playlists
📖 Reading
- How to use named functions as callbacks in your JavaScript
- Website version 6
- 2nd Edition: Please Mind The Gap
- ReCoil
- A New Component Library for Parts Giant – David Bushell – Freelance Web Design (UK)
- overscroll-behavior - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDN
- Principles - Piccalilli
- Displaying the Current Step with CSS Counters | CSS-Tricks
- Monetizing Your Blog With Coil
- Meta Element: theme-color › Martin Schneider — Frontend Developer
- Leaner feature branches
- The Large, Small, and Dynamic Viewports
- Downloading a website as HTML files
- How to create a dark mode theme for your site or app
- Seven best practice tips to design low-carbon websites
- What is tree shaking?
- The 3-Second Frontend Developer Test · Jens Oliver Meiert
- Client side data in 11ty
- Load file contents in Eleventy
- HTML for Subheadings and Headings | CSS-Tricks
- Progressive enhancement, graceful degradation, and asynchronously loading CSS
- Naming layout components
- Design Tokens beyond colors, typography, and spacing.
- Attribute selectors in CSS
- 5 most annoying website features I face as a blind person every single day | The Big Hack
- How to load CSS asynchronously
- Fleek Makes Deploying and Maintaining an ENS+IPFS Website Easier than Ever
- Sucks to be him! How Henry the vacuum cleaner became an accidental design icon
- Organize your CSS declarations alphabetically
- Deleting a stash in Git
- Accordion Rows in CSS Grid
- Responsive Suffixes in CSS Class Names
- Structuring Eleventy projects
- A Complete Guide to Netlify Forms | Stackbit
- Website Accessibility Checklist (15 Things You Can Improve) | websitesetup.org
- Icon accessibility and aria label
- How to Build a Consistent Content Creation Habit
- Supporting Multiple Authors in an Eleventy Blog
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