America by Design is Deplorable for All – Frank M Taylor
One of the first deliveries of the National Design Studio is AmericaByDesign — which is deplorable for all.| Frank M Taylor
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One of the first deliveries of the National Design Studio is AmericaByDesign — which is deplorable for all.| Frank M Taylor
Ever heard that Arabic has 10 million words? That English has a million? French has 80,000, or that the Alaskan Inuits have no word for love but 16 for snow? Why is that? Words are only words because we all mutually agree that they're words. Stare long enough and the semantic saturation will kick inRead More| Frank M Taylor
Reading Time: 2minutesSometimes I get stuck with a problem that I don’t really like: When I can’t execute my little bit of code until another bit of code executes, and there’s no events coming from that other code to tell me that it’s run. When I find myself in the situation where I need something off onRead More| Frank M Taylor
There's a newish CSS feature called hyphens that specifies how you want words to be hyphenated when the text wraps. But if you use it, you're going to need to make sure you're also correctly identifying the language. And to understand why that matters, we need to talk about words and syllables.| Frank M Taylor
CSS3 offers a ton of brand new ways that you can select elements in ways we've never thought of before. Today I want to focus on exclusively the structural pseudo-classes, which are ways of selecting elements based on the document tree. CSS2.1 limited us to :first-child and IE7 and 8 have done a great job sinceRead More| Frank M Taylor
Reading Time: 14minutesHygenic code is commented code. But often, it can be difficult to understand where, when, or even how to comment your front end code. So I'd like to share a small guide for writing comments in your front-end that makes the developer experience better for everyone.| Frank M Taylor
So the :nth-child structural pseudo class is mighty handy already since it lets you select based on mathematical rules. But to my surprise, it got handier and no one told me. Which makes me think no one told you, either: :nth-child() can do filtering now! A Quick Primer on Structural Pseudo-classes So I wrote aboutRead More| Frank M Taylor
I've complained in the past about how I don't like application architectures being led by the front-end team. Rather than complain some more, I want to talk about how front-end developers could meaningfully participate in the architecture of a project — particularly the CMS part. I want to talk about how front-end developers can beRead More| Frank M Taylor
Everyone speaks at least one language. It’s fascinating how we learned that first language, too. Without any formal instruction, we heard it, repeated it, and found ourselves effective communicators within about seven years. And in that time, we learned what our language sounded like, too. Language is merely words seeking their melodies Even if weRead More| Frank M Taylor
Sometimes we don't want to use a full-blown SPA. And sometimes when we don't want that full-blown SPA, we do want some SPA-like features likes maybe state management attached to some small element of the User Interface. I ran into this kind of situation at Red Hat last year, and I want to share howRead More| Frank M Taylor
Pronoun is a spicy word these days and let me tell ya: I love spicy food. I figuratively and literally enjoy a delightful sting when I'm partaking in some sort of nourishment. There's a lot of talk about pronouns but I want to talk through them: What they are, their linguistic function, and how theyRead More| Frank M Taylor
Reading Time: 12minutes This here is a friendly introduction to linguistics for programmers. There are many ways to improve our programming skills: watching videos, reading articles, hackathons, and doing code competitions. But there’s another way that gives us less time in front of an IDE: Learning to think about how programming works. We’re not talking about how compilersRead More| Frank M Taylor
Folks who get to know me usually (and regrettably) discover that I am a language nerd. I like learning languages and I like learning about languages. There's all sorts of things that are fascinating about languages: where they come from, why they sound a certain way, why grammar is what it is. But lately, I'veRead More| Frank M Taylor
