Exploring modern frontend techniques and frontend adjacent topics: JavaScript, HTML, CSS, web application development, dev culture … the whole shebang. https://phillipluther.dev/https://phillipluther.dev/blog/frontend-vs-front-end/https://phillipluther.dev/blog/frontend-vs-front-end/Have you ever Googled front-end VS. front end VS. frontend? It's a nest of grammatical correctness on compound adjectives and nouns. This, friends, is not that.Wed, 19 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMTPhillip Lutherhttps://phillipluther.dev/blog/what-does-em-stand-for/https://phillipluther.dev/blog/what-does-em-stand-for/What does Em Stand For In CSS? Nothing. It's a Word, like potato or snowshoe. I learned this today in a random fit of curiosity after 20+ years of CSS'ing.Wed, 13 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMTPhillip Lutherhttps://phillipluther.dev/blog/optimizing-free-time-readied-actions/https://phillipluther.dev/blog/optimizing-free-time-readied-actions/Life is busy. Free time comes in few-and-far-between spurts. I stole a trick from D&D to optimize my free time. It's worked well and I'd like to share it.Wed, 06 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMTPhillip Lutherhttps://phillipluther.dev/blog/2024-blog-resolutions/https://phillipluther.dev/blog/2024-blog-resolutions/Join a gym? Take a dry January? Call my mother more often? All solid resolutions, but no help to this blog. I wanna go audio/visual with this thing in 2024.Wed, 03 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTPhillip Lutherhttps://phillipluther.dev/blog/shouldnt-take-more-than-five-minutes/https://phillipluther.dev/blog/shouldnt-take-more-than-five-minutes/"Is he right?" That's the question I'm gonna ask at the end of this little-not-little thought experiment. Given context, how heavy can 5 minutes actually be?Wed, 17 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTPhillip Lutherhttps://phillipluther.dev/blog/accidental-brutalism-blog-aesthetic/https://phillipluther.dev/blog/accidental-brutalism-blog-aesthetic/You know elephants, right? They're sensitive, powerful, monochrome … yet visually striking. They're not over-designed. My blog mimics elephants. Shots fired.Wed, 21 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMTPhillip Lutherhttps://phillipluther.dev/blog/clear-over-clever-code-for-humans/https://phillipluther.dev/blog/clear-over-clever-code-for-humans/As your dev skills level-up, your code dumbs down. Clarity feuds with cleverness. 20 lines of code that could be a baffling one line regex? Opt for verbosity.Wed, 16 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMTPhillip Lutherhttps://phillipluther.dev/blog/inches-centimeters-css-units/https://phillipluther.dev/blog/inches-centimeters-css-units/We all use ems and rems and pixels in our CSS. Have you ever used inches or centimeters? Believe it or not, ins and cms exist! They probably shouldn't.Thu, 09 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMTPhillip Lutherhttps://phillipluther.dev/blog/css-custom-properties-calc-typescale/https://phillipluther.dev/blog/css-custom-properties-calc-typescale/I love CSS custom properties. I love calc. We can use CSS custom properties and calc to build a fluidly responsive type scale in vanilla CSS. Let's do so!Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTPhillip Lutherhttps://phillipluther.dev/blog/setting-npm-devault-values/https://phillipluther.dev/blog/setting-npm-devault-values/Tired of updating the author, version, and license fields in every new project's package.json file? Me too; here's how to set npm init's default values.Thu, 12 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMTPhillip Lutherhttps://phillipluther.dev/blog/ellipsis-keyboard-shortcut/https://phillipluther.dev/blog/ellipsis-keyboard-shortcut/There's a right way to use ellipses. Of much less import, there's a right way to type them! Here are the Windows and macOS ellipsis keyboard shortcuts.Fri, 16 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMTPhillip Lutherhttps://phillipluther.dev/blog/handy-web-dev-tricks/https://phillipluther.dev/blog/handy-web-dev-tricks/GitHub's browser-based VS Code IDE, npm's testing shorthand, dunders, and more. Here are 5 noncritical but handy things web developers should be aware of.Wed, 28 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMTPhillip Lutherhttps://phillipluther.dev/blog/love-daylight-savings/https://phillipluther.dev/blog/love-daylight-savings/Jet laggy time shifts aside, I love losing an hour to daylight savings. It's the only time I have a concrete answer to the question, "Where did the time go?"Thu, 14 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMTPhillip Lutherhttps://phillipluther.dev/blog/new-post-2024-08-01/https://phillipluther.dev/blog/new-post-2024-08-01/A freshly stubbed post.Thu, 01 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMTPhillip Lutherhttps://phillipluther.dev/blog/new-post-2024-07-11/https://phillipluther.dev/blog/new-post-2024-07-11/A freshly stubbed post.Thu, 11 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMTPhillip Luther