Yesterday morning we left Germany. This afternoon, we’re back in Cymru. An 800 miles drive and I’m cream crackered!

Brilliant game against a quality Bristol City. #wrexhamafc

Want to join my Webring?

👉 Well, I have two conference talks booked for 2026, so I made a new page: stuffandnonsense.co.uk/speaking-info Also, I could help myself. I’m having fun with my banner characters again!

👉 I started a little collection of CSS text styles: stuffandnonsense.co.uk/toon-text/in...

For years, I said “when I grow up I’ll buy…” And now that I’ve hit 60, I bought…

Heading to Switzerland to buy a watch for my big birthday.

Thanks for all the big birthday wishes kids!

60

🇩🇪 🇩🇪 🇩🇪 Gutenberg Tag Deutchland. I will be staying in Mainz/Weisbaden throughout January and February. If you have need for a designer, anywhere from Frankfurt to Heidelberg, send me a message. 🇩🇪 🇩🇪 🇩🇪

It took me (almost) 60 years to sit down with my Mum to ask her about my Dad. What a tragic story. Not just for him, but for the people his intolerable behaviour affected.

Made it to Chermany for my big birthday week.

I was only snuggling with Betsy a couple of days ago and now she’s gone. So sad for her owners.

For fuck sake Labour. It’s not the few thousand desperate people who come here illegally which are the problem. It’s the multi millionaires, billionaires, and mega corporations who are the problem.

I was happy in a haze of a drunken hour, but heavens know I’m miserable now,

It’s interesting how so few people leave comments on magazine articles (not just mine.) It looks like readers now just want to take information and not give anything back. It was so very different 20 years ago.

👉 My CSS selector strategy I used to over-specify too many things in my stylesheets. It was a bad habit picked up from BEM, OOCSS, and from developers who flattened everything with classes to dodge specificity. stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/my-css-...

What a game! Beating league leaders Coventry with a Moore hat trick. Astonishing!

Fucking bastard big toe.

Today I am listening to Bob Vylan.

👉 Can you catch em’ all? I’d been tinkering with animations last week and wondered what else I could do with my Magnificent 7 characters. I love surprising people with hidden Easter Eggs, so I decided to use them in a little hidden game. stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/can-you...

Ouch! I woke up with a majorly gouty toe!

Getting deep into Eleventy today. I worked on my boilerplate to remove every trace of SASS.

👉 Can you catch em’ all? I’d been tinkering with animations last week and wondered what else I could do with my Magnificent 7 characters. I love surprising people with hidden Easter Eggs, so I decided to use them in a little hidden game. stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/can-you...

What film have you watched again and again the most? Me? The Great Escape. (Again today.)

👉 More Magnificent 7 Malarkey I had some spare time earlier this week to add a little more finesse to my Magnificent 7 animated graphics, so I added a new background to my blog pages’ illustrations, which has some hidden features. stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/more-ma...

For the life of me, I cannot remember why we started setting media query breakpoints in em and rem instead of px. and I can think of no good reason now. Educate me?

Anyone who says “I was gifted this…” instead of “I was given…” deserves to be “gifted” a slap.

Spent today with one of the very few people who knew my Dad. What a tragic story.

Also, the Ivory Mastodon app screen sticks part way down the screen, until you quit the app and relaunch!

Gah! The Bluesky app has this tiny square next to the Home button. It goes to the account page and I press it all the damn time!

👉 Added a new animated graphic to my blog section. (Watch for the tumbleweed.) The background lighting changes throughout the day. stuffandnonsense.co.uk

Sunday should be interesting. I’m meeting someone who knew my Dad and she’s going to tell me about him.

👉 How I fixed my Reduced Motion Broke My Layout problem I went back to check animations with reduced motion enabled. Oh hell, my CSS grid had also stopped working! stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/how-i-f...

👉 Say hello to my Magnificent 7 CSS-Tricks’ Geoff and I talked about what to put in my bio. He called me a “veteran.” Geez, I felt old enough. So we settled on “pioneer.” That inspired new animated pioneers for my website. stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/say-hel...

Thank you Italy, for kicking Israel out of the 2026 World Cup.

👉 Say hello to my Magnificent 7 CSS-Tricks’ Geoff and I talked about what to put in my bio. He called me a “veteran.” Geez, I felt old enough. So we settled on “pioneer.” That inspired new animated pioneers for my website. stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/say-hel...

👉 Added fun new animated graphics across my website. All SVG and CSS. Let’s hope I didn’t break too much. stuffandnonsense.co.uk

I’m glad the hostages are released, but: - Don’t fucking talk about how much weight they’ve lost when there are thousands of Palestinian children starved by Israel. - Remember, Trump doesn’t care about anyone but himself and enriching himself. - #freepalestine

New website animated banner in progress.

Our electrician replaced the halogen spotlights in our bathroom with LEDs. Fuck me! They’re now so bright you can see someone’s skeleton.

"Fly, you fools!"

"Solid blocks of text around straight-edged images can feel static. But text that bends around a guitar or curves around a portrait creates movement, which can make a story more compelling and engaging." "Getting Creative With shape-outside" by @allthatmalarkey.bsky.social

👉 Getting creative with shape-outside Yours truly over at CSS Tricks: "There are so many creative opportunities for using shape-outside that I'm surprised I see it used so rarely. So, how can you use it to add personality to a design? Here's how I do it. stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/g...

👉 The thing about contrast-color I have to admit that I got a little over-excited when I read that the contrast-color() function is supported in Safari and was keen to try it out. But there's a problem, the thing with contrast-color is… stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/t...

👉 Building adaptive SVGs with symbol, use, and CSS Media Queries "SVGs, they scale, yes, but how else can you make them adapt even better to several screen sizes? I explain how I build what I call "adaptive SVGs" using symbol, use, and CSS Media Queries." stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/b...

When you bought your last Mac laptop, did you get the nano-texture display?

It's illegal in the UK to say you support P_______ A_____. So… stuff-and-nonsense.teemill.co...

👉 I made a new Stand Against Genocide t-shirt. Every purchase helps fund Medical Aid for Palestinians. stuff-and-nonsense.teemill.co...