Category: web

Author: Mark Fischer, Jr.
Posted: May 17, 2015
Tags: programming, web

Using REST Inside Programs

Rich Hickey proposed an interesting idea in his keynote at RailsConf 2012. The idea, if I understand correctly, is that if serialization is good between servers as a way to separate concerns, then why don’t we do it between different sections of code on the same server? ¶ Using REST between...

Author: Mark Fischer, Jr.
Posted: May 8, 2015
Tags: css, programming, web

Pseudo-Element Kung-Fu

I recently found that the content property can contain cooler stuff than just strings. For instance, you can show the href of a link in a cool popup with absolutely no JS: ¶ content: attr(href); See the Pen Pure CSS link hover popup by flyingfisch (@flyingfisch) on CodePen. ¶ This allows us...