Third Complete November
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- Categories:
- NaBloPoMo 5, IndieWeb 12, Personal 25
- Current music:
- Balún —
Camila
- Current drink:
- White tea with peppermint
For the third time, third year in a row, I managed to write a post for every day of November.
I was tired at the end, and postponed writing many posts until the end of the day, but it felt easier than the last two previous years.
The hardest part was: I decided not to post about CSS or frontend on weekends, and I ended up with more notes for what to write about CSS, and couldn’t find many topics for non-CSS posts.
However, I still did write some CSS on weekends.
Anyways, I don’t think the quality of the posts was that good, but it is better than nothing, right? The necessity to write posts was nice as a way to push myself to actually publish stuff.
I won’t go through all the posts that I wrote about CSS, but will recommend you check out these three if you missed them:
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“Fixing Baselines” — a small technique that I used for a very long time, and finally found an opportunity to write about.
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“Inline Custom Identifiers” — a post about an approach to naming things and connecting them to other elements that require unique identifiers in CSS via inline custom properties.
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“Anchoring to a Containing Block” — the way to fix a very common anchor positioning issue that I stumble over and over again.
I also wrote a few posts about some of the design tweaks I ended up using for my blog and website through the iteration over the years:
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“Uneven Inline Paddings” — usually a not noticeable thing to visually balance the left-ragged text.
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“Styles For Secondary Interactive Elements” — a more noticeable thing, which I don’t see people using often.
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“Bolder Links” — a more subtle thing I do for around two years.
There are more posts that I could write about, but I think I’ll stop. Usually, in these last few years, I do a roundup of things I did for the whole year, and I will likely write about some of them there.
The best part: I have more notes about CSS than I could write about. Many of those topics were a tiny bit too big for a quick daily post, so I hope I will manage to start writing and publishing them over time.
And there is also one big article that I started writing, but did not manage to finish, partially because some of my time was dedicated to those daily posts. But — I for sure want to finish and publish this article in December. It should be a pretty good one, I think.
See you next month.