I just now discovered that Codepen closed down their blog post functionality. I had some content written on that platform, so I guess it's time to migrate it to my core site.
One such article is a fun breakdown I wrote back in 2016 on how I built an SNES controller using CSS+HTML.
https://alexstandiford.com/articles/essays/a-breakdown-of-the-snes-controller-built-with-css-html
Me: what would make this blog post with tons of images nicer, Kate?
Kate: They all need to be grouped up in a carousel, like Instagram
Me: gaaaaah I knew you were gonna say that!
And that's why I spent the last hour turning the gallery blocks on Casual Weirdness and my personal site into galleries. Which, honestly, was pretty easy because React.
I'm going back and finding content created by me that is published on other sites, and duplicating it on my site. I stumbled on this 3-part series I did just before I got hired at GoDaddy.
It's all about how I switched from using ACF and the classic editor to a full site block editing experience, and includes some samples of the tooling I used at the time. There's some good info in here, particularly about my process.
https://alexstandiford.com/tag/coding-optional-series
#BlockEditor #CodingOptionalSeries #WebDevelopment #WordPress
I updated my RSS feeds so that you can filter content by tag. So if you only want to follow a specific topic of mine, you can simply append ?tag=tag-name at the end of any of my RSS URLs, and it will only show content with that tag.
Example: https://www.alexstandiford.com/rss.xml?tag=WordPress
Eventually, I'll actually embed this into the interface to make it a little easier to use, but for now this will do just fine 😊.
This post explores the details that went into into my personal content publishing platform for my site, as well as the other blogs that I run.
I have found that writing unit tests for exceptionally complex projects has forced me to change how I approach my work in some cases. This post talks about how I write prototypes of code to hash out how a project will work quickly, as a part of my design process.
I’ve got a not-so-uniqie design challenge that I think a lot of people like me are thinking a bit about right now. To where am I moving now that I’ve become disillusioned with Twitter? I have talked a lot about my excitement for the metaverse, and am certain that, at least in some fashion, I’ll […]
Let’s talk a little bit about how transform can be used to position elements, and how CSS rotate interacts with translate.