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Spotted this in a really random location (intentionally placed?) on my walk today. I am digging your #2020 vibe, random rock-painter person!

Today I learned that a steep learning curve actually means content is easy to learn - material learned over time has a sudden increase. It is the long and steady (shallow?) learning curve that means the material is difficult to acquire.

A friend told me today that a certain geographical feature of the town where they grew up was “visible from space.” What a modern, inspirational term that almost nobody fifty years ago would have said about their home town, that we take for granted today.

Did you know that the SVG text element does not have content wrapping? Ran up against that today. You can fake it with a tspan element if you know where to put "x" and "dy". Tutorial examples from Jakob Jenkov got me over the hurdle.

Star Trek: Discovery is visually stunning, and has really enjoyable writing when more episodic in nature. Great acting. By the end of each season though, there were so many arcs being pulled back together, I felt like it was work to keep up.

On this, the first day of my unemployment, I will read a book, go to the gym, and do all those other things I always put off in favor of work... LOL! Nah! Bring on the side projects! 🤪 #codemonkey

First up on the "Hey, you're unemployed!" side projects, is making the 33 Books Co. flavor wheel into a standard web component. Complete with property inspector! Vue only for data binding. Default flavor? Ashton Aged Maduro #40. temp.kevinhoyt.com/33/

I totally understand the mask mandates, but... underpants mandates? Now they’ve gone too far! 🤪

TIL about the CSS tilde operator. Basically, if Selector A and then Selector B within the same parent, apply these styles to Selector B. Technically the "subsequent-sibling combinator". Not sure how that got by me, but happy to have found it.

I think I found a new market opportunity for 33 Books Co.. 😂 From Women’s Health (don’t judge me). FWIW, the list includes Twizzlers, Fritos, Swedish Fish, Pringles, and various snack bars (Cliff, et al). Now I need a diet article.

Found today while scraping some website data... <table class="prod-grid" data-wtf="prod-grid"> 🤣

I wanted to send my wife a picture of a flower, so I searched for “iris” on Google Images. Then I saw the “human” tag at the top of the results. I clicked that tag out of curiosity. A deeply unsettling screen full of eyes staring at me ended the adventure.

My hunch is that application development for the web is so complex/heavy/frameworky, because the provided HTML controls are so shortsighted. Imagine a TH tag with arguments for sorting, filtering, resizing, etc. A SELECT with all the parts exposed to CSS.

Read an article about Engageli which had this cool breakout room visualization. Wondered what it might look like as a Web Component. What can I say; I geek out about circles in UI. Weekend project activate! temp.kevinhoyt.com/engageli/

In honor of Adobe MAX this week, here is a Web Component implementation of the Spectrum table component. Not sure why they went React over standards, but if they want a standards-based version, I am available for hire.😁 temp.kevinhoyt.com/spectrum/

I am thinking of doing a little experiment wrapping Box2D (or other physics engine) in web components. Declarative world building? Looked around and did not see anything that resembles the idea.

Imagine Dwight Schrute’s Wide World of Sports, and you have landed on Netflix’s new series, We Are The Champions. From the forged in the fires of a volcano yo-yo master, to the “children are weak” high stakes world of dog dancing. Binge it all!

Hey, everybody! I found it! Not React. Not Node. Not Couch. Spray it on your shiny new Windows, wait for a film to develop, and then wipe it away. You are one squeeze away from all you application solutions.

Implemented an iOS 14 style picker/calendar using Stencil, and landed my first post on the ionic blog. Nervous about my first time writing in a long while, but excited to be sharing web component awesomeness. ionicframework.com/blog/building-…

As a soldier in the Army, I could catch some shut-eye just about anywhere. Dug in a near an enemy position? “This rock looks like a good pillow.” As a worker in tech, I battle insomnia regularly over corporate political machinations, wondering if I will still have a job Monday.