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    CSS background-repeat: round

    The CSS spec is full of gems that sneak their way past most of us web designers and developers. Stuff like :focus-within, prefers-reduced-motion, and prefers-color-scheme suddenly make their way into CSS without us really finding out for months or years. One such...

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    Kotlin Coroutines and Delay

    Whenever I suspect that there's a timing conflict causing a problem with rendering and directives, I usually opt for a JavaScript setTimeout with a delay. The setTimeout code never makes it to production, but it does help me to understand if my code is the...

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    How to Fix ESLint Errors Upon Save in VS Code

    Two of the most prominent utilities in web development today are ESLint and Microsoft's Visual Studio Code. I enjoy using both, and I love the integration between both tools, but warnings from ESLint inside Visual Studio Code aren't fulfilling -- I'd rather lint errors be...

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    How to Display Mode-Specific Images

    Now that we have most of the basics of HTML and CSS in the browser, we've begun implementing new features that I would consider "quality of life" improvements, many of which have been inspired by mobile. One great example is the CSS prefers-color-scheme media...

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    How to Simulate Long HTTP Requests

    It happens less frequently these days but there are times when we need to accommodate for a HTTP request timing out. The service could be down, under heavy traffic, or just poorly coded, or any host of other issues.Whenever I need to simulate a...

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    Hex Opacity Table

    We've used hex colors for years but 8-digit hexadecimal is still relatively new. While rgba is simple to understand, 8-digit hex is more difficult, as you need to provide a hex representation of a numeric value.The following is a hexadecimal chart of opacity!.hex-opacity-table {...

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    How to Set a Default Commit Message

    Having a default commit message is really useful for a number of reasons:It can formalize your commit messagesIt serves as a good reminder for the information you should add to your commit message, like issue numberIf you set it to "Drunk AF, don't accept this"To set...

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    How to Specify User Agent with cURL

    Over the years I've shared how to perform a number of actions with cURL: how to send POST data, how to retrieve headers, follow redirects, check GZIP encoding, and more. Another useful cURL directive is sending the user agent, as some...

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    Override window.alert

    For years the only bit of feedback web developers could get was via alert("{str}") calls. These days we have the web console but, in rare cases, we don't have a console and alert calls are our only window into a value at a given time.One problem...

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    Git Branch Autocompletion

    Naming git branches is something most of us have down to a science. My branch naming pattern is usually {issue number}-short-feature-description, though many developers prefer to lead with the description and end with the issue.Regardless of the pattern you use, having a feature like autocomplete...