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Keith J. Grant

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👨🏻‍💻 Front end dev at Red Hat on Ansible Automation Platform. Author of CSS in Depth. he/him 🌐 https://keithjgrant.com https://notes.keithjgrant.com 📖 https://www.manning.com/books/css-in-depth-second-edition 🐘 https://front-end.social/@keithjgrant

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · Jun 24

Need some colors for your next web project? I’ve got you covered. If you haven’t seen the Theme Machine, check it out! 🎨 #css #webdev

tools.keithjgrant.com/theme-machine/

Screenshot of several color swatches in the Theme Machine

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 8h

`Jira could not complete this action because our developers don't understand how REST is supposed to work`

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 1d

Commas are essentially deprecated. The new formats like oklch() don’t support them

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 5d

Genuinely, the US is quickly sliding into fascism and Google and Apple have proven they are not going to stick up for us when the government gives them unconstitutional orders.

Stop making apps they can remove from their app stories on a whim. Make websites instead. At least make it hard for them.

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 5d

@kevinpowell.co sometimes layout bugs have perfect comedic timing

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Kevin Powell @kevinpowell.co · 6d

Do you have any smaller/under-the-radar CSS sites/people that you follow?

Looking for blogs, YouTube channels, or anyone who just shares cool CSS stuff.

Reply if you know any, and look at the replies for new people/sites to follow 😊

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 8d

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 9d

⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.

The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.

interestingengineering.com/science/chin...

China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes

A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.

interestingengineering.com

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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 7d

Please, please, please do this. One of my biggest JS pet peeves is when people catch errors then throw a new error without including the cause. You’re shooting yourself in the foot.

Pooya Parsa @pi0.io · 7d

JS pro tip: Add { cause } to errors. Makes debugging and inspection way easier 🔍

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 7d

*in most browsers

(Only works in Safari with the “minimum font size” setting, unless that has changed recently)

Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 8d

This is wild. I’m not sure there’s any other game I’ve played through (or attempted to play through) more times than Mega Man 2. I love that game

Murlin @murlin.bsky.social · 9d

From bravewave.net/interviews/t...

Mo: Do you remember the first time you met someone who said they loved your work on Mega Man 2?

Tateishi: You’re the first, in 2013. No one else has.

Mo: Wow. I’m surprised. I don’t even have a follow-up question… how could no one come up and say something.

Tateishi: …

Mo: Now that you know how big Mega Man 2 is outside of Japan, do you look fondly back at the soundtrack?

Tateishi: Yeah, my thoughts have changed since I met you and became more aware of how people felt. But even when I was at Konami, I didn’t even bother telling anyone I did Mega Man 2. So the fact you came all the way to Japan to tell me these things makes me very happy I worked on the game all those years ago.

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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 9d

Give folks their flowers

No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier

"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

Murlin @murlin.bsky.social · 9d

From bravewave.net/interviews/t...

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 10d

One of my periodic hobbies is making cakes. Today I made Opera Cake for my wife’s birthday 😄

Top down view of the opera cake. A perfect square of chocolate with crisp corners and white chocolate drizzle

A side angle view of the cake. Three layers of almond sponge cake with interspersed layers of chocolate ganache and coffee French buttercream

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 10d

I really want to do the right thing and order a @cooksillustrated.bsky.social book direct from them rather than Amazon, but ten bucks for shipping?! Especially when I know the USPS media rate is only a fraction of that

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 14d

Congrats, Josh! Hope it’s really successful 🙂

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Josh W. Comeau @joshwcomeau.com · 14d

We’re live!! My brand-new course, “Whimsical Animations”, is now available. 🥳🎉

whimsy.joshwcomeau.com

I’m so excited to share all of my animation tools and techniques with y’all. 😄

Whimsical Animations

Learn how to create charming interactions and delightful touches using the magic of CSS, JavaScript, SVG, and Canvas. I’m sharing all my tricks in this one!

whimsy.joshwcomeau.com

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 14d

Half off CSS in Depth eBook (and all other Manning eBooks) today only!

www.manning.com/books/css-in...

CSS in Depth, Second Edition - Keith J. Grant

To create web designs that delight, entertain, and impress your users, you need to know CSS in depth! Getting good—really good—at CSS means learning everything that CSS is capable of. This totally re...

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Josh W. Comeau @joshwcomeau.com · 16d

✨ I just published a brand-new blog post about a modern CSS feature!

But, honestly, I’m still on the fence about it. 😅

In this post, I’ll dig into the gnarly issue I ran into, and share three possible workarounds. Along the way, you’ll learn a bunch about the CSS cascade and specificity!

The Big Gotcha With @starting-style • Josh W. Comeau

CSS has been on fire lately, with tons of great new features. @starting-style is an interesting one; it allows us to use CSS transitions for enter animations, something previously reserved for CSS key...

www.joshwcomeau.com

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Adam Argyle @nerdy.dev · 17d

❌ mobile first
✅ container first

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 19d

Buying a car in 2025. Choose your color: white, gray, silver, black, near-black, and a blue that's essentially still gray. 😭

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20d

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly.

sbgi.net/tv-stations/