I am in Indianapolis this weekend for a three day conference, True Woman ’25. Today was a long day with a morning session, afternoon breakouts and an evening session. I took a break late in the day to get outside and walk around. I enjoyed soaking up the architecture around the convention center. It was […] The post Wandering around Indianapolis appeared first on Jeff Bridgforth.| Jeff Bridgforth
Last week, I read Jim Nielsen’s, Anti-*: The Things We Do But Not All The Way. The article deals with those things that we have intention to do but don’t follow through or things started but not finished. He preceded to list out some of his “antis” and it got me thinking about my antis. […] The post Anti*: those things left undone appeared first on Jeff Bridgforth.| Jeff Bridgforth
Putting on an art show* My wife and I traveled up to Murray, Kentucky on Friday to attend the opening of my son’s solo art show, Of Methods and Madness. Ryan was the recipient of the “MAGpie Award” at the Murray State University OMAS group’s Annual Student Art exhibition last spring. This award consists of […] The post Weeknotes 25:39 appeared first on Jeff Bridgforth.| Jeff Bridgforth
Goodbye, Teddy We had to make the difficult decision to end the life of our beloved Teddy on Friday. Her health had been deteriorating the past few weeks. We know this decision was the best thing for her and we did not want her to suffer more than she needed to. Guinea pigs life spans […]| Jeff Bridgforth
Yesterday, I published my first article on CSS Tricks. As a reader of the site since 2009, it was a huge honor and privilege to share my voice on this long standing source for Web developers. I was approached back in June by Geoff Graham, the editor of CSS Tricks, asking me to consider writing […] The post Is it Time to Un-Sass? appeared first on Jeff Bridgforth.| Jeff Bridgforth
Articles I read What I watched Twenty One Pilots City Walls – My daughter showed us some videos about the Twenty One Pilot lore before we watched City Walls with her. It was her first watch of the video. What I listened to Books I read Walking What I played MLB The Show 20 (Twins) […]| Jeff Bridgforth
This post was originally part of Weeknotes 22:31 but I decided to make it into its own singular post. I have been following the MLB playoffs through social media and the MLB app on my tablet, since I don’t have cable and cannot watch any of the games. I was excited to see that the […]| Jeff Bridgforth
Finished the Falcon On Sunday, I finished building the Millennium Falcon LEGO set I had started building on Saturday. I had to make two trips to a local LEGO store to buy some missing pieces. What I wrote Both of the things I wrote this week were personal and not related to Web development. Articles […] The post Weeknotes 25:36 appeared first on Jeff Bridgforth.| Jeff Bridgforth
Today is my friend Anthony’s birthday. I can’t remember the last time we have spoken. I know that I saw him in June 2004. He and his family attended my sister’s wedding. We sat with him and his wife at the reception and his two daughters and my daughter had so much fun dancing and […] The post Happy birthday, Anthony appeared first on Jeff Bridgforth.| Jeff Bridgforth
I got a bit of a vague text from my dad a week ago. Do you recall the National Soccer League All Star game in 1983 held in Charleston, South Carolina? Of course my first thought is why is my dad asking me about something that happened over 40 years ago. I knew there had […]| Jeff Bridgforth
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
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
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