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chriskirknielsen

@chriskirknielsen@front-end.social

🎨 Creative developer and CSS nerd at mojopsg.com
🤓 Enjoys '80s aesthetics, puns, gaming, movies, languages, and synths.
📍 From France, based in the US. (weird not-French accent)
💬 Pronouns: he/him

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argyleink, to random
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Hi Amsterdam

chriskirknielsen,
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@argyleink ❎ Bitterballen?

nhoizey, to CSS French
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How should I read the values for box-shadow-position in the formal syntax of box-shadow on MDN?

It says <box-shadow-position> = [ outset | inset ] which I read as: the value is either outset or inset. But I know outset is not supported. It is the default behavior, not the default value.

Maybe I need a documentation of these formal syntaxes… 😅

#CSS #MDN

⚓️ https://nicolas-hoizey.com/notes/2024/05/29/1/

chriskirknielsen,
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@nhoizey Not sure it helps but with Sass you can use $type: " "; and use unquote($type) in your shadow function, or --type: unquote($type); to convert any Sass variable to a custom property. It's cumbersome, for sure, and I wouldn't want to have to write it, but if you really have to…!

eric, to random
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Yo, go buy @Wilto's zine. It rules. https://ericwbailey.website/published/multipage-version-zine-issue-one/

chriskirknielsen,
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@stvfrnzl @eric @Wilto Just to second that this looks really cool.

Steve, your comment made me think of @latte's website: https://anhvn.com/ _ figured I'd share in case you hadn't seen it already!

chriskirknielsen, to random
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No one:

Absolutely no one:

Me: OKAY FINE! You can dynamically edit my CSS logo idea, now! Happy‽ (also downloads are for the non-edited version)

https://chriskirknielsen.com/css-logo/

leaverou, to random
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We’ve always told devs that browsers prioritize what to implement based on dev demand.

There is one exception: .

SVG is used on >65% of websites. Yet, browsers have been refusing to work on SVG, ignoring pressure and pain points from web devs.

showed SVG as the top content pain point: https://2023.stateofhtml.com/en-US/features/content/#content_pain_points

Tons of work (SVG 2, fill & stroke, and more) has sat unimplemented for years. At this point, in standards circles, we know not to touch SVG with a barge pole.

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chriskirknielsen,
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@leaverou If you follow @anatudor, you'll see a lot of posts about SVG, with caveats "this works in X but not in Y, and this other thing works in Y but breaks in Z"… definitely would love to see SVG get some attention at least for interop!

zachleat, (edited ) to random
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📮 New blog post: An organizer’s retrospective on the 11ty Conference

https://www.zachleat.com/web/11ty-conf-retro/

A small look at what goes into organizing an inaugural online conference, including a detailed budget rundown.

chriskirknielsen,
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@zachleat I appreciate the breakdown and transparency for this! Also the event seemed to have gone without a hitch (besides a couple folks forgetting to unmute 🙊), so on the technical side, this ran super smoothly, very nice to see!

PS: "I’d definitely like to hire someone to design the t-shirt!" 👀

chriskirknielsen,
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@zachleat

robb, to random
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Starting to think the custom og images I use are more hassle than they're worth.

Like if I toot a post I've done, the title is there anyway so the image doesn't really add anything.

chriskirknielsen,
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@robb I took mine away a few years ago because it was a bit of a pain to remember to make it (it was basically a complex URL built with Cloudinary's API and an Unsplash image, fun but ultimately not very useful).

For what it's worth, if you just used your logo in the small form factor, I'd click it all the same, though I could imagine variations like your "RK" logo and "Blog" sitting below in a smaller font size, still fitting in a square. (it's what I've been thinking about anyways!)

hi_mayank, to random
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my #11tyconf talk "Don't fear the cascade" starts in ~15 mins!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLxJ6PtuF9M
https://conf.11ty.dev/

chriskirknielsen,
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@keithjgrant @hi_mayank Y– yes…? 👀 (it's a bug AND a feature — but I will have to fix that haha)

chriskirknielsen,
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@mods @sarajw @hi_mayank Would it be best without transparency like this? Attaching both, just in case. :)

An unofficial CSS logo where the letters slightly poke out of a square outline, with a purple background; the square and text are transparent.

chriskirknielsen,
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@hi_mayank Ah yeah I switched servers after posting it and the one on here is a little bit of a joke. I'll post it again when I get on my personal laptop!

chriskirknielsen,
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@hi_mayank Really enjoyed it, great job!

chriskirknielsen,
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@hi_mayank Whoops I went overboard and created a page: https://chriskirknielsen.com/css-logo/

chriskirknielsen, to random
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@henry Great talk, great topic, great GIF pronunciation, great domain for the demo. 11/10 #11tyconf

chriskirknielsen, to Notion
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I wrote about how I used @eleventy's fetch AssetCache feature to query and store data from an #API like #Notion or the #PlayStation Network (for my Now and Gaming Library pages), abstracting it all into reusable code. Maybe somebody else out there could benefit from such a write up, so I wrote it: https://chriskirknielsen.com/blog/leverage-api-like-notion-with-cache/

chriskirknielsen, to CSS
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While not functional on Firefox (yet!), I had a little fun with @​​property on @codepen in #CSS. What I love is that the conic gradient's angle is reused with sin/cos in CSS to animate that (extremely realistic 🤡 ) text-shadow + subtle box-shadow in an arc, not a straight line! MATHS!

https://codepen.io/chriskirknielsen/pen/GRLazxr

A dark button in a dark environment with a intermittently solid cyan border (its opacity varies around the button). As the button is hovered, the border's "gaps" move around the button. and a glow behind it grows while following this movement around the button. The text also has a slight shadow (unrealistically white, to make it easily perceivable) which moves in an arc as the border animates, as if the border's glow is casting a light on the text, which in turns casts a shadow.

DavidDarnes, to random
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“DOM stands for DOMinic Toretto”

chriskirknielsen,
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@DavidDarnes DOM Elements don't got friends, they got parentElement and childNodes family.

chriskirknielsen, to 11ty
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I'm probably going to get a new laptop soonish, and when that happens, this little fella is going straight onto it! Such a cute character! (not pictured: a neat shirt!) #eleventy

chriskirknielsen, to Playstation
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Updated my Gaming Library page, you can click the title on the spine of a game and it'll open a dialog with more info about it. Recently integrated the PSN API to show trophies and even an icon if relevant. APIs are cool. (manually mapping API IDs to your Notion list, not so cool, but it is necessary!)

PS: Don't try to change the completed status — rude. Also I didn't copy the idea from somebody I look up to with their NYC checklist, nope. 🙃

🏆 https://chriskirknielsen.com/games/library/

chriskirknielsen, to CSS
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Inspired by @robb, I made a game collection page — less visually appealing, but I had fun with the #CSS: https://chriskirknielsen.com/games/library/

chriskirknielsen, to random
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It's 4/04, a great day to migrate to a new version that might fail to direct to the new DNS or whatever.

So that's what I did… hi, new website: https://chriskirknielsen.com

Not expecting free labour from anybody but if you do run into some weirdness, I would greatly appreciate a ping to let me know!

nhoizey, to random
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Why is Google’s web.dev site animating the top border like KITT in Knight Rider (K 2000 in France)? 🤷‍♂️

This is really annoying.

chriskirknielsen,
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@nhoizey I see if with uBlock Origin on, and it disappears if I turn it off. Seems they entangled "tracking users" with "loading content". Google's gonna Google I guess. 🤷

chriskirknielsen, to random
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Cool, Netlify added rate limiting!
https://www.netlify.com/blog/introducing-new-rate-limiting-feature/

Buuuuut… seems unavailable on free plans (just checked on my "team" and individual site), so the $104k bill catastrophe is still a possible scenario… that's a bit of a disappointment.

And is that an AI-generated voice in the video? Very weird cuts. 😅

chriskirknielsen, to random
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@robb Came across your gaming collection page (https://rknight.me/collections/games/) and I love all that organisation. I have a similar setup in Notion, maybe I should do something similar… 👀

Anyways, just wanted to report that the PS1 logo, for the middle strip in the S, the green-ish fill is missing the #, causing it to render in black.

chriskirknielsen, to random
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Server switch = #introduction time! 👋

I'm Chris, a front-end developer (and CSS nerd) who used to be a graphic designer.

I'm Danish, grew up in France, and live in the US, so I love languages (+ I know some Italian, and picked up Japanese again via Duolingo).

I'm infatuated with 80s aesthetics (neon! VHS!), and like being creative. I make (made 👀) music (synths are cool!), and enjoy puns, video games, movies, and reading books sluggishly.

Oh and here's my web site: https://chriskirknielsen.com

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