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Hello, I'm Mark Fischer. I am a Digital Experience Architect at ArcBest.

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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...

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...

Welcome

Welcome to my blog. I am a frontend .NET web developer (mainly ASP.net MVC with C#). At home I use Linux exclusively and code in Python, Haskell, PHP (with the excellent Laravel framework), or any other language that fits the bill. I plan to post about programming mainly, but...