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Written by Chris Coyier on 2025-01-24 at 17:04

A Ham of Meat

There's a classic old time tune "How Many Biscuits Can You Eat?". I know it from The Freight Hoppers but it's certainly much older than that. The answer? How many biscuits can you eat? 49 and a ham of meat. Obviously. Wait, did they say "a ham of meat"? Some renditions of the song just cruise right through that. Some of them let some of the instruments drop out during that line (the italics of songcrafting).

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Written by Chris Coyier on 2025-01-21 at 16:25

I did get around to writing up my own CSS Wishlist again. https://frontendmasters.com/blog/css-wishlist-for-2025/ Nothing terribly surprising on there, I mostly plucked up my favorite ideas from other people.

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Written by Chris Coyier on 2025-01-21 at 15:42

Team Bend Racing

The kid and I randomly started watching World’s Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji on Amazon Prime from 2020. 66 teams descend upon Fiji to compete in the most epic global adventure race ever attempted. Bear Grylls hosts this 11-day expedition that pushes competitors to their physical and emotional limits.  We were both like whaaaaat when "Team Bend Racing" took an early lead.

https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/21/team-bend-racing/

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Written by Chris Coyier on 2025-01-16 at 23:01

The Garden vs The River

Robin Rendle quoting Chris Armstrong:  ... Chris argues that personal websites could become more like wikis instead: With digital gardens, every new piece of content in the network has the potential to add depth and context to every other part. The whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts. I truly love the idea that topics might grow over time with constant refininement .

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Written by Chris Coyier on 2025-01-16 at 00:32

Nest Cams

First, we had the Nest thermostat. Gotta have that, right? The first thermostat in the history of time that feels well-designed1. Works great. Pleasure to use and look at. Then we got the smoke alarm. Why not — seems nice2. Then we got a free Nest Mini as a promotion when Miranda went Android for a while and got a Pixel phone.

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Written by Chris Coyier on 2025-01-14 at 22:13

1,000 lbs

Rogue has a 1000LB Club. Find your cumulative total of a 1 Rep Max Bench/Squat/Deadlift in one hour I'm not particularly interested in actually doing it. You have to record a video with a bunch of rules and crap. But I heard about it years ago and the general challenge idea stuck in my head. My gym recently did a "Supermax" event where we, over the course of…

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Written by Chris Coyier on 2025-01-13 at 17:43

Tech + Pace Layering

Steward Brand has talked about Pace Layering for a long time: Pace layers provide many-leveled corrective, stabilizing feedback throughout the system. It is in the contradictions between these layers that civilization finds its surest health. I propose six significant levels of pace and size in a robust and adaptable civilization With this example: The inner layers moving slowly, the outer layers moving quickly/inconsistently.

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Written by Chris Coyier on 2025-01-10 at 16:36

Short Life of Trouble

My fiddle player friend Darin sent me this documentary about GB Grayson, which I enjoyed: The documentary talks about how very few people even recognize the name despite all of recorded tunes essentially becoming standards in today's folk/bluegrass/old-time world and having been covered by extraordinarily huge artists. Gilliam Banmon Grayson (1887-1930) was a blind fiddler from one of the most isolated regions on the East Coast (East Tennessee).

https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/10/short-life-of-trouble/

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Written by Chris Coyier on 2025-01-09 at 17:17

Exploring Hogwarts Puzzle

Over the holiday's our family did the Exploring Hogwarts puzzle. It was just 500 pieces but took us like... a month? Of course at the end there was a missing piece that we absolutely could not find, confirming our conspiracy theories the entire time. It don't know if that looks hard to you, but my gosh, it was just a beast in difficulty the entire time.

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Written by Chris Coyier on 2025-01-08 at 16:24

Check-in-the-Mail IRL Spam (Canada Dry)

I just got a big ol' stack of USPS Priority Mail®️ marked as RETURN TO SENDER. It's... malicious spam. Physical spam, I suppose. I didn't send these, of course. But the return address is CodePen Headquarters, so it seems it was just a free way to get spam into our door. The evil schmucks drop these in the mail to fake addresses, they get returned to sender, and it's marked that CodePen Headquarters is the sender.

https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/08/check-in-the-mail-irl-spam-canada-dry/

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Written by Chris Coyier on 2025-01-07 at 16:39

Starlink

I don't actually have Starlink. I was just considering it for a hot second and figured I'd write down the thoughts. I was getting annoyed at our home internet service the other week and started looking into other options. In the end, I called our service provider (TDS) and they were like (1) your modem is very old so we'll just mail you a new one (2) you're on a grandfathered plan that is 600 megabit…

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Written by Chris Coyier on 2025-01-07 at 02:20

M4

When the M1 MacBooks dropped, they looked amazing and I picked one up in 2021. It's 2025 now, so it's fairly typical of me to be upgrading. It felt a little unnecessary since my M1 was: extremely perfectly fine. It's an excellent machine really and it will continue to be for it's next owner for surely many, many years. I'm just a privileged dude and we have a work budget for these things.

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Written by Chris Coyier on 2025-01-06 at 18:34

Untitled

When haters deny HTML’s status as a programming language, they’re showing they don’t understand what a language really is. Language is not instructing an interlocutor what to do in a way that leaves no room for other interpretations; it is better and richer than that. Tim Carmody, HTML Is Actually a Programming Language. Fight Me If you need a bit more proof that HTML can do dynamic, interactive, logic-oriented tasks, see the article I've been working on and…

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Written by Chris Coyier on 2025-01-06 at 15:58

Recreate a Cool Shuffling Effect in Pure CSS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An3QMWg3m1c https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/06/recreate-a-cool-shuffling-effect-in-pure-css/

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Written by Chris Coyier on 2025-01-05 at 16:20

Media Diet

🎥 Get Duked. I liked the cute premise of these hard kids doing a challenging nature walk thing. It was a great little set of actors and it started strong. Then it just went off the rails, as they say. It tried to do too many things and make it feel like a mess and I stopped caring. Try The Kings of Summer for a similar vibe and better film.

https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/05/media-diet-5/

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Written by Chris Coyier on 2025-01-04 at 22:22

Slash Pages?

Sometimes I look at this list of "slash pages" and I'm like ughkgh I love these, I should do like all of them. Then something stops me and I think I've figured out what it is. They seem more like blog post ideas to me than permanent (if occasionally updated) pages. For example /carry is one of the ideas:

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Written by Chris Coyier on 2025-01-03 at 20:17

Realign

I just popped out a realign of the ol' personal website. I only say realign as I didn't rethink every single detail of the thing. I'd say probably 40% of the original HTML and CSS are there from old site, 70% of the PHP, and of course 98% of the content. It won't stay this way forever, so I figured I'd document a little of it for fun and see what kinda interesting tech is in there, if any.

https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/03/realign/

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Written by Chris Coyier on 2025-01-03 at 19:23

Untitled http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDMDqUiobNo https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/03/11900/

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Written by Chris Coyier on 2025-01-01 at 17:15

Self-Recorded Music Vids

Just trying to make sure to remember to post these videos here, where they will actually be preserved over time. 🤘🪕

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Written by Chris Coyier on 2025-01-01 at 00:14

The Last Calvin

31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye. Liesbeth Corens I'm not always the most nostalgic guy but Calvin & Hobbes never fails to warm me up. I was such a super fan as a kid and had great experiences like this as an adult. Don't miss Bill's new book.

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