Jen Kramer
@jenkramer.org
📈 Instructional Designer
💻 Video courses: linkedin.com/learning, frontendmasters.com
More info: https://bio.link/jen4web
#html #css #webflow #ux #ui #instructionaldesign #LXD
💻 Video courses: linkedin.com/learning, frontendmasters.com
More info: https://bio.link/jen4web
#html #css #webflow #ux #ui #instructionaldesign #LXD
I see that James Watson, one of the scientists who discovered DNA's double helix, has passed away. I ran into him once when I was 23.
I was working as a lab tech in a cell biology lab at Univ of North Carolina. My boss and I were traveling to Cold Spring Harbor labs to present a workshop.
I was working as a lab tech in a cell biology lab at Univ of North Carolina. My boss and I were traveling to Cold Spring Harbor labs to present a workshop.
November 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I see that James Watson, one of the scientists who discovered DNA's double helix, has passed away. I ran into him once when I was 23.
I was working as a lab tech in a cell biology lab at Univ of North Carolina. My boss and I were traveling to Cold Spring Harbor labs to present a workshop.
I was working as a lab tech in a cell biology lab at Univ of North Carolina. My boss and I were traveling to Cold Spring Harbor labs to present a workshop.
Need one that says "recording my course." Wonder if I've hit a year of my life yet, babbling away into a microphone, with no one listening?....
I'm in Dordrecht for @fronteers.bsky.social Dark Mode conf tomorrow, and they left a little gift pack of speaker goodies in my hotel room including this, and I think it's absolutely delightful. ❤️
October 3, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Need one that says "recording my course." Wonder if I've hit a year of my life yet, babbling away into a microphone, with no one listening?....
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Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/project...
Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape
Someone's trash is another person's web server.
bogdanthegeek.github.io
September 15, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/project...
AI will get irrelevant answers out of my book "Joomla Start to Finish," published in 2010 & covering long-dead Joomla 1.5. However, the 1st chapter focused on site planning - something the community needed help with at that time. Still applicable & worth reading. www.theatlantic.com/category/ai-...
AI Watchdog - The Atlantic
The Atlantic's ongoing investigation of the books, videos, and other media used by the world's most powerful tech companies to train their AI models.
www.theatlantic.com
September 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
AI will get irrelevant answers out of my book "Joomla Start to Finish," published in 2010 & covering long-dead Joomla 1.5. However, the 1st chapter focused on site planning - something the community needed help with at that time. Still applicable & worth reading. www.theatlantic.com/category/ai-...
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‘Booty’ and ‘butt’ are synonyms.
‘Call’ and ‘dial’ are synonyms.
But, a ‘booty call’ and a ‘butt dial’ are VERY different things.
‘Call’ and ‘dial’ are synonyms.
But, a ‘booty call’ and a ‘butt dial’ are VERY different things.
September 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
‘Booty’ and ‘butt’ are synonyms.
‘Call’ and ‘dial’ are synonyms.
But, a ‘booty call’ and a ‘butt dial’ are VERY different things.
‘Call’ and ‘dial’ are synonyms.
But, a ‘booty call’ and a ‘butt dial’ are VERY different things.
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CSS `field-sizing` on a `<textarea>` is obviously awesome.
But the horizontal growth using it on an `<input>` is less clearly useful to me. But check out this design pattern I cooked up. I don't hate it. Keeps the name area compact until you need to see more. Just a bit of flexbox wrapping.
But the horizontal growth using it on an `<input>` is less clearly useful to me. But check out this design pattern I cooked up. I don't hate it. Keeps the name area compact until you need to see more. Just a bit of flexbox wrapping.
September 12, 2025 at 6:21 PM
CSS `field-sizing` on a `<textarea>` is obviously awesome.
But the horizontal growth using it on an `<input>` is less clearly useful to me. But check out this design pattern I cooked up. I don't hate it. Keeps the name area compact until you need to see more. Just a bit of flexbox wrapping.
But the horizontal growth using it on an `<input>` is less clearly useful to me. But check out this design pattern I cooked up. I don't hate it. Keeps the name area compact until you need to see more. Just a bit of flexbox wrapping.
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If you ever feel like you don't know what you're doing, just keep in mind Spotify sent out an email today with an image that is 8736x11648 in dimensions and 19.6MB in filesize.
So. You're fine.
So. You're fine.
September 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
If you ever feel like you don't know what you're doing, just keep in mind Spotify sent out an email today with an image that is 8736x11648 in dimensions and 19.6MB in filesize.
So. You're fine.
So. You're fine.
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It’s here: The Future of Coding Sale 🛸
$100 off yearly Frontend Masters → 250+ courses, AI workshops, personalized learning paths, quizzes, & more
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$100 off yearly Frontend Masters → 250+ courses, AI workshops, personalized learning paths, quizzes, & more
frontendmasters.com/sale/?utm_so...
September 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
It’s here: The Future of Coding Sale 🛸
$100 off yearly Frontend Masters → 250+ courses, AI workshops, personalized learning paths, quizzes, & more
frontendmasters.com/sale/?utm_so...
$100 off yearly Frontend Masters → 250+ courses, AI workshops, personalized learning paths, quizzes, & more
frontendmasters.com/sale/?utm_so...
Love me at @frontendmasters.com but wish I cost less? Get $100 off a yearly membership now and catch all of my CSS classes for less. frontendmasters.com/sale/
The Future of Coding Sale | Save $100 on Frontend Masters
Join 250+ expert-led coding courses with personalized learning paths, quizzes, and AI workshops. Save $100 on yearly Frontend Masters during The Future of Coding Sale.
frontendmasters.com
September 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Love me at @frontendmasters.com but wish I cost less? Get $100 off a yearly membership now and catch all of my CSS classes for less. frontendmasters.com/sale/
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I think more than anything else AI feels like a miracle to people with questionable literacy because it can read and write for you, and a lot of us who are highly literate underestimate how many of our society's leaders, esp in business, struggle with literacy.
It's pretty much mandatory at work that I appear to be using it, so I've doe a few functional things with it, and it's a moderate time-saver if used right. But nowhere near worth it's stock value, energy cost.
Then I realize there's a lot of people who simply can't write coherent paragraphs.
Then I realize there's a lot of people who simply can't write coherent paragraphs.
September 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I think more than anything else AI feels like a miracle to people with questionable literacy because it can read and write for you, and a lot of us who are highly literate underestimate how many of our society's leaders, esp in business, struggle with literacy.
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Something I didn't get to say yesterday:
We heard over and over during the event about "human-centered" approaches to "AI". But if refusal is not on the table (at every level: individual students and teachers right up through UNESCO) then we have in fact centered the technology, not the people.
We heard over and over during the event about "human-centered" approaches to "AI". But if refusal is not on the table (at every level: individual students and teachers right up through UNESCO) then we have in fact centered the technology, not the people.
It has been really interesting to attend UNESCO's Digital Learning Week (though unfortunately I'm not able to stick around). My public lecture from yesterday can be found here:
www.youtube.com/live/l-OWi6V...
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www.youtube.com/live/l-OWi6V...
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September 3, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Something I didn't get to say yesterday:
We heard over and over during the event about "human-centered" approaches to "AI". But if refusal is not on the table (at every level: individual students and teachers right up through UNESCO) then we have in fact centered the technology, not the people.
We heard over and over during the event about "human-centered" approaches to "AI". But if refusal is not on the table (at every level: individual students and teachers right up through UNESCO) then we have in fact centered the technology, not the people.
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Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler at an owl sanctuary and he told me that the wild owls who lived near the sanctuary worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.
August 31, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler at an owl sanctuary and he told me that the wild owls who lived near the sanctuary worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.
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Opening a Details Element from the URL
If the #hash in the URL matches the ID of an element *inside* a element, it'll open. No other fancy code required.
If the #hash in the URL matches the ID of an element *inside* a element, it'll open. No other fancy code required.
Opening a Details Element from the URL
If the #hash in the URL matches the ID of an element *inside* a element, it'll open. No other fancy code required.
frontendmasters.com
August 27, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Opening a Details Element from the URL
If the #hash in the URL matches the ID of an element *inside* a element, it'll open. No other fancy code required.
If the #hash in the URL matches the ID of an element *inside* a element, it'll open. No other fancy code required.
The web started its downhill slide when someone said "cool, but I want it big and red"
Hey gang let's all just learn html 1.0 and remake the internet from scratch
August 27, 2025 at 1:24 AM
The web started its downhill slide when someone said "cool, but I want it big and red"
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Lol, we need the "AI" that is killing the environment and guzzling untold amounts of resources to save the environment. This is 1984 type of marketing, like "ministry of peace" that is actually the war department.
Without artificial-intelligence technologies, balancing human-caused greenhouse-gas emissions with carbon removals by 2050 is out of reach
go.nature.com/41LtWWk
go.nature.com/41LtWWk
Net zero needs AI — five actions to realize its promise
Without artificial-intelligence technologies, balancing human-caused greenhouse-gas emissions with carbon removals by 2050 is out of reach. Action in five areas is needed to keep this goal alive.
go.nature.com
August 22, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Lol, we need the "AI" that is killing the environment and guzzling untold amounts of resources to save the environment. This is 1984 type of marketing, like "ministry of peace" that is actually the war department.
Fascinating - how Kids These Days are reading online.
Okay. I've got admin bits to sort today. So to distract me while i wait on things to run at various points:
For every few likes this get, a fact about university websites and how gen z and below interact with information, as proven by testing/data.
(Most of which unis aren't handling well yet)
For every few likes this get, a fact about university websites and how gen z and below interact with information, as proven by testing/data.
(Most of which unis aren't handling well yet)
August 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Fascinating - how Kids These Days are reading online.
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Announcing my new book THE AGE OF EXTRACTION - presenting a vision of how to retake broad prosperity in the platform age. Coming Nov. 4.
"Startling .. An urgent wake-up call" - Publishers Weekly
Preorder your copy today: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691177...
"Startling .. An urgent wake-up call" - Publishers Weekly
Preorder your copy today: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691177...
August 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Announcing my new book THE AGE OF EXTRACTION - presenting a vision of how to retake broad prosperity in the platform age. Coming Nov. 4.
"Startling .. An urgent wake-up call" - Publishers Weekly
Preorder your copy today: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691177...
"Startling .. An urgent wake-up call" - Publishers Weekly
Preorder your copy today: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691177...
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There are so many CSS features rolling out these days but not enough time to experiment myself with everything. That’s why I’m loving @jamessw.com's arbitrary striped table CodePen demo using the new sibling-index() function codepen.io/jamessw/pen/...
Currently on Chrome & Edge 138+
Currently on Chrome & Edge 138+
Arbitrary Striped Table
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codepen.io
August 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
There are so many CSS features rolling out these days but not enough time to experiment myself with everything. That’s why I’m loving @jamessw.com's arbitrary striped table CodePen demo using the new sibling-index() function codepen.io/jamessw/pen/...
Currently on Chrome & Edge 138+
Currently on Chrome & Edge 138+
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Omfg
my daughter came home from her first day of 10th grade and said that her history teacher told her that if she refuses to use AI for assignments, she has to cite her sources.
i asked how she’d cite it if she used AI, and she said, that’s not required.
i’m still internally fuming up about this.
i asked how she’d cite it if she used AI, and she said, that’s not required.
i’m still internally fuming up about this.
August 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Omfg
Agreed. It depends on the site and what's happening with it. Not every site is the size and scope of one of the big tech companies, where logical properties are appropriate. I prefer teaching left/right/top/bottom to beginners because they're easier to understand & they have enough to learn already!
Should We Never Use Non-Logical Properties?:
It turns out that in CSS, it’s extremely hard to argue against the use of anything.
It turns out that in CSS, it’s extremely hard to argue against the use of anything.
Should We Never Use Non-Logical Properties?
It turns out that in CSS, it’s extremely hard to argue against the use of anything.
meiert.com
August 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Agreed. It depends on the site and what's happening with it. Not every site is the size and scope of one of the big tech companies, where logical properties are appropriate. I prefer teaching left/right/top/bottom to beginners because they're easier to understand & they have enough to learn already!
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"On August 6, 1991, the first website was introduced to the world." Happy 34th birthday, the Web! www.npr.org/2021/08/06/1...
A Look Back At The Very First Website Ever Launched, 30 Years Later
The world's first website, which contained information about the World Wide Web itself, was created by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee and published 30 years ago today.
www.npr.org
August 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
"On August 6, 1991, the first website was introduced to the world." Happy 34th birthday, the Web! www.npr.org/2021/08/06/1...
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my mom taught me there's two kinds of businesses: hot dog stands and art galleries
- hot dog stands protect territory and keep competition off their turf
- art galleries benefit from more adjacent art galleries, cluster together to amplify reach/support
youre an art gallery, not a hot dog stand
- hot dog stands protect territory and keep competition off their turf
- art galleries benefit from more adjacent art galleries, cluster together to amplify reach/support
youre an art gallery, not a hot dog stand
Play and discuss as if you were friends trying to get to know each other better, rather than as if you were rival squawking merchants trying to sell competing goods in a marketplace. The world is full of friends and potential friends, and it's much lonelier and more frightening when it isn't.
August 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
my mom taught me there's two kinds of businesses: hot dog stands and art galleries
- hot dog stands protect territory and keep competition off their turf
- art galleries benefit from more adjacent art galleries, cluster together to amplify reach/support
youre an art gallery, not a hot dog stand
- hot dog stands protect territory and keep competition off their turf
- art galleries benefit from more adjacent art galleries, cluster together to amplify reach/support
youre an art gallery, not a hot dog stand
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Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
February 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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genAI saves time alright but at cost of actual learning
“When they give me an assignment, I just research and copy. I don’t read or anything. Sometimes I’ve wondered if what it’s telling me is true, but it helps me save time.”
July 31, 2025 at 11:24 AM
genAI saves time alright but at cost of actual learning
“Thinking requires foundational knowledge. Students who learn primarily to act as passive conduits for AI-produced information are not going to reach the potential they have to use the tool well [or] the much broader potential they have as independent thinkers.”
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07...
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07...
The academics taking on ‘cheating’ students using AI to write their essays
With 92 per cent of undergraduates relying on AI tools, institutions are bringing back in-person exams to safeguard independent thought
www.telegraph.co.uk
July 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
“Thinking requires foundational knowledge. Students who learn primarily to act as passive conduits for AI-produced information are not going to reach the potential they have to use the tool well [or] the much broader potential they have as independent thinkers.”
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07...
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07...