Dan Manchester

Recovering Rhody, web maker, & sometimes poet in PDX. Jabbering on CSS, JS, a11y, cardigans, line breaks, moss, & cartoon physics.

[Dan Manchester @elseloop]

I had some time on my hands thanks to the layoff, so I rebuilt my personal site

🧔🏻‍♂️ https://t.co/lHzfyenrr5

The first blog post is the article I wrote as part of my Chromatic interview process, where I build a little app to inventory all my books:

📚 https://t.co/VybI8ahjXj

[Dan Manchester @elseloop]

@inthefade So sorry for your loss

[Dan Manchester @elseloop]

@ajmueller Thank you, sir! 🫸💥🫷

[Dan Manchester @elseloop]

I’m using Tailwind for the 1st time on a client project and I can definitely see its usefulness & why people love it so much. I also know for sure it’s not for me on big, custom projects. After so much CSS over 15+ years I'm a faster thinker with a single class and a stylesheet.

[Dan Manchester @elseloop]

@stephmurrayyyy The Ivy & Bean books by Annie Barrows

[Dan Manchester @elseloop]

@Integrayshaun Happy birthday, dude! 🍻

[Dan Manchester @elseloop]

I really enjoy writing CSS.

Carry on.

[Dan Manchester @elseloop]

@chantastic @Integrayshaun lol yep

[Dan Manchester @elseloop]

@chantastic @jlongster My understanding is that it typically is run at the lower bonus rate but doesn't have to be. Yay.

[Dan Manchester @elseloop]

@chantastic @Integrayshaun Right there with you. Mine was closer to $15k, but I fucked up the same exact way. ✌️💸

💥😞🔫

[Dan Manchester @elseloop]

How’ve you been filling your time since getting laid off, Dan?

The usual way: spending a few hours in the middle of the night making silly shit on the internet because I bought a domain name a decade ago and never did anything with it. Totally normal.

https://t.co/BooyXaKmoc

[Dan Manchester @elseloop]

@adgodev Yeah, I'm not seeing here either:

https://t.co/sUWTW1o6sj

Something else must have been going on. 🤦‍♂️

Thanks for the fact-check, you wizard you.

[Dan Manchester @elseloop]

Thing I didn't know until now: CSS :has selector doesn't work with attribute selectors. (At least, I think that’s true.)

[Dan Manchester @elseloop]

@adgodev 🤔 I wonder if I had a typo that went unnoticed or something?

[Dan Manchester @elseloop]

@adgodev Ha, yeah. I thought I had a handle on blocks a couple years ago, came back and its just different enough. So it goes. 🫠

[Dan Manchester @elseloop]

Dipping my feet back into WordPress to help out a site I built a while ago and ran into an oddity. If anyone has any ideas, I'm all ears:

https://t.co/RQRUHfg8S4

[Dan Manchester @elseloop]

Starbucks: like drinking a toaster’s crumb tray.™️

[Dan Manchester @elseloop]

@kyleshevlin I've started asking ChatGPT to write well-annotated outlines for things then writing against those myself in order to avoid the ick of full-AI-copy.

If I do go full copy, I send the result through a few times asking for it rewritten in “clear, plain language.” Usually helps. 🤷‍♂️

[Dan Manchester @elseloop]

@jina That's awful—and awfully infuriating! Your community work should be considered an asset everywhere.

[Storybook @storybookjs]

Storybook 7.6 is here! 🥳

🔥 Improved SWC support
🧪 New test utilities and fast build mode
⚛️ react-docgen upgrade
🔼 NextJS SWC + avif support and fixes
🇸 SvelteKit page and navigation mocking
🩺 Diagnose errors via CLI w/ Storybook doctor
🎉 New docs site

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