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Kirby Docs Search Workflow for Alfred 4

A screenshot of Alfred App showing how you can search the Kirby CMS documentation

If you are using Alfred anyways and a lot, like I do and you are also using Kirby CMS for your websites, you might like, what Adam Kiss has published here.

He published a workflow for Alfred, that allows you to directly search in the Kirby documentation directly from your computer. Pretty handy! I love those things who are maybe not too big of an invention, but make you life easier with small, helping bits. Thanks Adam.

👉 Information and download of the Alfred workflow

⇾ Star Trek Design

This is so nerdy and I love it. Eno created a website on which you can find a lot of the interior, glassware, and so on from all Star Trek series with Info of who designed it and what its original name is.

Eno writes:

Star Trek + Design began as a personal quarantine project in March of 2020, a little over a year since buying my first Bodum Bistro (Picard Cup) set. I’d just been laid off from my job due to the pandemic, and found myself spending far more time watching Star Trek than I had when I was employed. Being drawn to the aesthetics of Trek, especially of The Next Generation, made me curious about the specific objects that set designers used to create the visual embodiment of what living and working on a starship would look like in a technologically-advanced, post-scarcity future.

Enjoy!

⇾ Visit: Star Trek Design

⇾ 5 Most Annoying Website Features a Blind Person Faces Every Day (Holly Tuke)

Holly Tuke writes about the five most annoying inaccessible web elements she faces as a blind screen reader user every day and teaches us how to fix them.

⇾ Visit: 5 Most Annoying Website Features a Blind Person Faces Every Day (Holly Tuke)

Morning Coffee

A photo of today’s first coffee I made, a flat white, standing in front of my espresso machine

Every morning at 6am, my coffee machine automatically turns on to heat up and have the right temperature for when I get up and have the first coffee of the day.

I like the sound of the grinder, grinding the beans and the sound of the hot water and steam that the machine makes, when I flush out water. The smell of that first coffee as I froth the milk is almost more rewarding than the taste of that first coffee.

Elsewhere: Instagram

⇾ Learn CSS – A Free CSS Course and Reference

A free CSS online learning course.

This course breaks down the fundamentals of CSS into digestible, easy to understand pieces. Over the next few modules, you'll learn how the core aspects of CSS work and how to use them effectively in your projects.

⇾ Visit: Learn CSS – A Free CSS Course and Reference

⇾ The Production “Workflow” of Our Live Online Streaming Shows at Stay Curious

During the last couple of days I sat down and emptied my head around how I produce my online events over there at beyond tellerrand which I titled Stay Curious.

I went from planning to production and tried to cover everything, but not to go into too much detail. Surely you can write a lot about each of those points on its own and in case you have questions to any specific part, please let me know.

Feed back is welcome also, of course.

⇾ Visit: The Production “Workflow” of Our Live Online Streaming Shows at Stay Curious

Upgrading Kirby

Just a note for myself, as I always forget how bloody easy it is to upgrade Kirby CMS: replace the folder “kirby” and delete the folder “media”, as it will be recreated.

Screenshot of the Finder on my Mac showing how to copy a folder to another destination
The easy way of upgrading to a newer Kirby version

⇾ CSS Hell (Stefánia Péter)

CSS Hell – a collection of common CSS mistakes, and how to fix them. Collected by Stefánia Péter

⇾ Visit: CSS Hell (Stefánia Péter)

⇾ Dark Mode in 5 Minutes, with Inverted Lightness Variables (Lea Verou)

Lea Verou created this article for everybody who is thinking to create a dark mode for their website. Well explained and easy to follow.

⇾ Visit: Dark Mode in 5 Minutes, with Inverted Lightness Variables (Lea Verou)

⇾ A Complete Guide to Custom Properties on CSS Tricks

Chris Coyier has created this guide on custom CSS properties. Make your CSS code more readable, cleaner and safe time changing stuff.

To the question ”Why care about CSS custom properties?” Chris writes …

  1. They help DRY up your CSS. That is “Don’t Repeat Yourself.” Custom properties can make code easier to maintain because you can update one value and have it reflected in multiple places. Careful though, overdoing abstraction can make have the opposite effect and make code less understandable.
  2. They are particularly helpful for things like creating color themes on a website.
  3. They unlock interesting possibilities in CSS.
  4. The fact that they can be updated in JavaScript opens up even more interesting doors.

⇾ Visit: A Complete Guide to Custom Properties on CSS Tricks