My Mac just rebooted itself to install an update and now it says “41 minutes remaining…”

Please post funny pictures.

5 year old: What do pigs sleep in?
Me: Mud
5 year old: Not blankets?

* Eats a pig in a blanket *

What if we all just tweeted our job titles, salary, and current location? twitter.com/RefreshDC/status/122…

That means April 7, 2020 according to en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_…

HTML attribute loading=”lazy” is coming to Firefox!

“Mozilla plans to support lazy loading for images and iframes in Firefox 75.”

ghacks.net/2020/02/15/firefox-75…

#webperf

Today I learned about the download attribute for HTML links. Handy if you want the link to download a file.

davidwalsh.name/download-attribu…

OMG kids Valentine’s Day cards for school are like Christmas Cards part 2

My kids daycare is closed tomorrow for parent/teacher conferences and Monday for Presidents Day. So popsicles before school today sounds a-ok to me.

Today I learned…

The HTML 5 specification permits the <tfoot> to come before the <tbody> element. As of HTML 5.1 the <tfoot> now must come after <tbody>.

w3.org/TR/html51/tabular-data.ht…

The punchline to this thread is deep twitter.com/craigcalcaterra/stat…

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by trying to get toddlers to brush their teeth. PLEASE just do it it will only take 30 seconds. NO! Don’t brush the counter with your tooth brush! Arrrgghhh…

Where are all the animated SVGs?

getmotion.io/blog/where-are-all-…

anonymousjoe managed to pull this off without touching the markup using CSS grid. I still need to wrap my head around thinking in terms of CSS grid.

codepen.io/anonymousjoe/pen/bGdN…

GusRuss89 came up with a similar solution but used a pseudo element instead of using an extra element in the markup. That’s smart.

codepen.io/GusRuss89/pen/BaNaeaM

I updated the pen with my solution. By adding a wrapper element we can absolutely position an element with the same background color as the <main> and <aside> elements to sit underneath and stretch out to the left edge of the screen.

codepen.io/kingkool68/pen/GRJRed…

In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 1.5 Quibi

Me: * opens fridge *
Me: Do you want some strawberries?
5 year old: Is that the buy one get one free box?
Me: Uh… Does it matter?

More often then not if there is an event in the afternoon that is more than 15 minutes away the 3 year old falls asleep 2 minutes before we arrive and then I have to sit in the car for 2 hours while they nap.

Then goodness this website is FREE.

Or good design is considering all the ways something could go wrong and smoothing those problems over so the entire experience comes off as intentional and well designed.

Good design is invisible and doesn’t call attention to itself.

Maybe a new saying should be ” the toddlers leading the toddlers” although my kids seem to remember where everything exactly is so… twitter.com/ChanceyFleet/status/…