Much more personal weeknote this week. I share about Aquarium visit, getting back to taking walks, and rebuilding a midi-scale Millennium Falcon LEGO set. I also attended Smashing Meets: AI and share links to the talks. And I have been learning about anchor positioning and played around with refactoring a recent solution to use anchor positioning.| Jeff Bridgforth
UI improvements I was asked to make some UI improvements to a couple of areas on our site. The first task was to make it more clear to the user which donation option was selected–monthly or one-time. I also added a script to the page to improve the other amounts selection to bring focus to […]| Jeff Bridgforth
Move-in My wife, son, and I traveled up to Murray, Kentucky to move him into the dorm for the last time. This is the first year since year one that my wife has joined us. We traveled up on Thursday and moved him in on Friday. We had a beautiful but very hot day. But […] The post Weeknotes 25:33 appeared first on Jeff Bridgforth.| Jeff Bridgforth
Over the weekend, I attended my first in-person conference in 12 years. I traveled up to Grand Rapids, Michigan to attend Beer City Code with several of my teammates. Most of my team lives in Michigan and my team leader had heard good things about the conference so we decided to attend it as a […] The post Beer City Code 2025 appeared first on Jeff Bridgforth.| Jeff Bridgforth
“The reality here can be unsettling. Often God chooses to meet us with his blessing in a place we do not choose to be. He will bless us on the detour. He will bless us in the Land Between. Often the place of blessing is not our place of preference.” – Jeff Manion, The Land […] The post Often the place of blessing is not our place of preference appeared first on Jeff Bridgforth.| Jeff Bridgforth
New Roof Our house got a new roof on Thursday. It was a very noisy day working from home. My daughter let me borrow her noise canceling headphones and I was able to get some work done on the couch in our living room. We are really happy with the roof tile we choose. It […] The post Weeknotes 25:31 appeared first on Jeff Bridgforth.| Jeff Bridgforth
I was working on a task this morning that involved refactoring heroes on our website. As I was looking at all the different variations and thinking about how we could simplify, I noticed that almost all the heroes on the site live inside of a main HTML element. My first inclination was to think that […] The post Hero and semantic ordering appeared first on Jeff Bridgforth.| Jeff Bridgforth
Interviewed I was interviewed this week for our Revive Our Hearts chapel service. This week, we were remembering an event that happened 30 years ago. Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth spoke at the 1995 Campus Crusade for Christ staff conference in Ft. Collins, Colorado. God used her message on brokenness as a catalyst to doing a special […] The post Weeknotes 25:30 appeared first on Jeff Bridgforth.| Jeff Bridgforth
I happened upon a video about one of my articles I was watching Salma Alam-Naylor’s Why “Women in Tech” is not enough on Thursday morning. At the end of the video, YouTube played a Kevin Powell video. I soon realized that Kevin was referencing a question that I had asked on Bluesky in June: Kevin […] The post Weeknotes 25:29 appeared first on Jeff Bridgforth.| Jeff Bridgforth
I prepared this specifically for Revive Our Hearts staff members to help them get to know me. I started a job with this ministry in April. I am being interviewed on July 22 for a chapel service. This is a supplement for those who might want more of the story. Please feel free to read […] The post Get to know me: Revive Our Hearts Edition appeared first on Jeff Bridgforth.| Jeff Bridgforth
My son rebuilt his LEGO ARC Starfighter on Saturday. He has wanted to rebuild it for a long time but wasn’t sure he had all the pieces. He went through all his pieces on Friday and found all that he needed. It is his favorite ship. I forgot how impressive it was. I sat in […] The post Moments appeared first on Jeff Bridgforth.| Jeff Bridgforth
A Dao of CSS I took time on Thursday to watch A Dao of CSS, one of the talks I had missed from the CSS Day 2025 livestream. John Allsopp challenges us to find our way back to the essence of the Web that we lost during the age of apps. Buy access to the […] The post Weeknotes 25:28 appeared first on Jeff Bridgforth.| Jeff Bridgforth
I got back to work after a two week hiatus. But it was a short week. I had taken off Monday as part of my bereavement leave. And Friday was a holiday. We traveled back from Louisiana on Sunday. Monday was mostly a relax and recover day. I got back into the “office” on Tuesday. […] The post Weeknotes 25:27 appeared first on Jeff Bridgforth.| Jeff Bridgforth
Budapest. I explored one of my favorite cities for the first time 35 years ago today. My team took a 3 hour train trip from Lake Balaton to see Budapest on our day off. We walked from Déli to the Castle District. After spending time in the Castle District, we walked down, crossed the Chain […] The post My first trip to Budapest, 35 years ago appeared first on Jeff Bridgforth.| Jeff Bridgforth
Fifteen years ago today, I listened to Ethan Marcotte talk about this idea of “responsive web design” on The Big Web Show. I had read Ethan’s article on A List Apart a month earlier. But it did not make that big an impression on me at first. There was something about hearing him talk about […] The post RWD on The Big Web Show 15 years ago appeared first on Jeff Bridgforth.| Jeff Bridgforth
There are probably other things I would like to learn but trying to keep the list short and doable. The post Things I would like to learn (Q3 2025) appeared first on Jeff Bridgforth.| Jeff Bridgforth
My mother-in-law passed away early Tuesday morning. She had been moved to a hospice care center late on Monday. My wife and I went to see her Monday night. It was a much quieter environment than the hospital and the staff were better trained in helping to make her last hours as comfortable as possible. […] The post Weeknotes 25:26 appeared first on Jeff Bridgforth.| Jeff Bridgforth
My mother-in-law, who has lived with us and we have cared for the past 6 years, had a major stroke on Tuesday morning. My wife was with her when it happened and we quickly called 9-1-1. Because we acted quickly, we gave her the best chance we could to survive. But despite our best efforts, […] The post Weeknotes 25:25 appeared first on Jeff Bridgforth.| Jeff Bridgforth
Image solution On Monday, I was recreating some content as we move over the French version of Revive Our Hearts from WordPress to Django. One of the pieces of content was an image with a caption that the French team wanted centered on the page. There was also an image with caption that was floated […] The post Weeknotes 25:24 appeared first on Jeff Bridgforth.| Jeff Bridgforth
On Monday, I was working on a layout where the client wanted an image centered in the page. I also had another use case where the image would be floated to let the other content beneath flow around the image. The image also had a caption. I knew that I wanted to put the image […] The post Having figure match width of contained image appeared first on Jeff Bridgforth.| Jeff Bridgforth
CSS Day I was really excited a couple of weeks ago when I found out that CSS Day was going to have a live stream option available for purchase. CSS Day is one of the few, if only CSS focused conference that I am aware of. I would love to attend it in person but […] The post Weeknotes 25:23 appeared first on Jeff Bridgforth.| Jeff Bridgforth
On Tuesday, I read an article by Robb Owen that deeply resonated with my craftsman soul. Reading it gave me some hope about the future[1]. And it reminded me that there are a lot of us that still care about craft and that we can band together to help us each other out. Earlier this […] The post Looking elsewhere, a reflection appeared first on Jeff Bridgforth.| Jeff Bridgforth
Guys night out My youngest wanted to spend some time with her friend at the downtown library on Wednesday night. So instead of going back and forth over the course of a couple of hours, I asked my son if he would be interested in meeting up after work and grabbing some dinner downtown. He […] The post Weeknotes 25:22 appeared first on Jeff Bridgforth.| Jeff Bridgforth
I learned about the if() function that landed in Chrome 137 yesterday. From what I understand, an article about this new feature is coming from the Chrome team soon. I am interested to find out more and determine how it might be helpful in my workflow. Una also mentioned reading-flow and I did a bit […] The post TIL – if() and reading-flow appeared first on Jeff Bridgforth.| Jeff Bridgforth
I was inspired by another article by Andy Clarke and thought about some of my own past projects where I used the masking techniques he discussed.| Jeff Bridgforth
Jeff Bridgforth is a senior front-end developer looking for a new opportunity.| Jeff Bridgforth
It was a challenging week due to a combination of factors including grief. I ended the week attending Beer City Code with my remote teammates. And I share articles I read, what I watched, and other activities that made up my week.| Jeff Bridgforth