Weeknotes 25:42

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Week of October 12–18

Not impressed with view transitions in Firefox

On Wednesday, I saw that view transitions are now in every browser. I still use Firefox as my browser on my personal computer so I was excited that I would finally see the view transitions I had implemented on my own site. But when I opened the site–no view transitions. I was bummed.

Jeff Bridgforth

@jeffbridgforth

So far, I am very unimpressed with view transitions in Firefox. I am not seeing any difference on sites that I know are using @view-transition {navigation: auto}. Doing some investigating to try to understand why. Such a bummer since this technique is such a easy entry in using view transitions.

Una let me know that they only landed support for same-document view transitions. Cross-document is part of level 2. Bramus has put together a helpful guide to which features of the View Transitions API are supported in what browsers.

JavaScript for Everyone launched

Piccalilli’s new course, JavaScript for Everyone, launched last week. I bought the course last month with the pre-launch discount. I am excited to work through it. I worked through the first four lessons on Friday. I need to start making some time each day to dive in.

  • I worked on a HTML email last week. I hate doing these projects a lot less by using MJML. Our developers baked it into our Django CMS so I just have to write the MJML code. It makes it so much easier to build emails that work across the different clients.
  • My youngest attended two different concerts last week. She started with Laufey in Nashville on Monday and finished the week with Twenty One Pilots in Birmingham. She went to each concert with a different sibling. And one of the bonuses is that we got to see our son for a bit this weekend.
  • I am doing a lot of little improvement tasks right now in my work with Revive Our Hearts. I also did a many project to update one of the colors on the site to improve the color contrast. It became a much bigger task as I found more places that I needed to address the change, especially when testing in dark mode. I had to start over and attack it a different direction which led to less code changes. I still need to test the changes in our other language sites that share the codebase.
  • I was able to track down some artwork and found a link to a digital download for an album of a Christian band that played at KU when I was a student. I wanted to use the artwork for my Memory Keeper memory. It was fun to listen to a couple of the songs. I may or may not still have the cassette I bought at the show.

Jeff Bridgforth

@jeffbridgforth

When I saw the title of @chriscoyier.net‘s post, I immediately thought of Paul Simon’s song, 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover. Maybe Chris can make up a catchy tune to go with his post. ?

https://frontendmasters.com/blog/50-reasons-to-build-a-website/

Articles I read

“But behind every line of code, behind every post about the latest CSS tricks, behind every talk and video tutorial, there’s a real person. A person with a story, with struggles, with a life. And a few of those people are now here at the conference. That’s when you realize: the Web isn’t just a bunch of servers and websites. The Web is the people building it. The Web is community.

“That’s what’s so invaluable about conferences, about in-person events in general. They are like a cheat code, like a magic door – you enter, and suddenly, you find yourself on the inside of the conversation. The faces, the names, the people behind the blog posts – they become real. And you stop feeling like just being an observer of the Web community. You are now a part of it.”

Matthias Ott – The Lifeblood of the Web

What I watched

What I listened to

Books I am reading

Walking

  • Saturday – 2.95 miles in 56 minutes (It started raining so I walked a shorter distance than I had wanted to.)

What I played

MLB The Show 20 (Twins) – I threw a no-hitter on Sunday with Kenta Maeda. It was only the second time I have accomplished the feat in my 9 years of playing MLB The Show. I “saved” the no hitter in the ninth inning with a diving catch by Bryon Buxton.

I ended up splitting the four game series with the RedSox. They came back in Game 2 and won on a walk-off three run homer. I won the first two games of a series with the Royals so I went 4-2 for the week.

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