Andy Clarke
@allthatmalarkey.bsky.social
I was happy in a haze of a drunken hour, but heavens know I’m miserable now,
November 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I was happy in a haze of a drunken hour, but heavens know I’m miserable now,
It’s interesting how so few people leave comments on magazine articles (not just mine.) It looks like readers now just want to take information and not give anything back. It was so very different 20 years ago.
November 13, 2025 at 11:57 PM
It’s interesting how so few people leave comments on magazine articles (not just mine.) It looks like readers now just want to take information and not give anything back. It was so very different 20 years ago.
👉 My CSS selector strategy
I used to over-specify too many things in my stylesheets. It was a bad habit picked up from BEM, OOCSS, and from developers who flattened everything with classes to dodge specificity.
stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/my-css-...
I used to over-specify too many things in my stylesheets. It was a bad habit picked up from BEM, OOCSS, and from developers who flattened everything with classes to dodge specificity.
stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/my-css-...
My CSS selector strategy
stuffandnonsense.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
👉 My CSS selector strategy
I used to over-specify too many things in my stylesheets. It was a bad habit picked up from BEM, OOCSS, and from developers who flattened everything with classes to dodge specificity.
stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/my-css-...
I used to over-specify too many things in my stylesheets. It was a bad habit picked up from BEM, OOCSS, and from developers who flattened everything with classes to dodge specificity.
stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/my-css-...
What a game! Beating league leaders Coventry with a Moore hat trick. Astonishing!
October 31, 2025 at 10:04 PM
What a game! Beating league leaders Coventry with a Moore hat trick. Astonishing!
Fucking bastard big toe.
October 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Fucking bastard big toe.
Today I am listening to Bob Vylan.
October 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Today I am listening to Bob Vylan.
👉 Can you catch em’ all?
I’d been tinkering with animations last week and wondered what else I could do with my Magnificent 7 characters. I love surprising people with hidden Easter Eggs, so I decided to use them in a little hidden game.
stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/can-you...
I’d been tinkering with animations last week and wondered what else I could do with my Magnificent 7 characters. I love surprising people with hidden Easter Eggs, so I decided to use them in a little hidden game.
stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/can-you...
Can you catch ’em all?
stuffandnonsense.co.uk
October 27, 2025 at 12:36 PM
👉 Can you catch em’ all?
I’d been tinkering with animations last week and wondered what else I could do with my Magnificent 7 characters. I love surprising people with hidden Easter Eggs, so I decided to use them in a little hidden game.
stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/can-you...
I’d been tinkering with animations last week and wondered what else I could do with my Magnificent 7 characters. I love surprising people with hidden Easter Eggs, so I decided to use them in a little hidden game.
stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/can-you...
Ouch! I woke up with a majorly gouty toe!
October 27, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Ouch! I woke up with a majorly gouty toe!
Getting deep into Eleventy today. I worked on my boilerplate to remove every trace of SASS.
October 27, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Getting deep into Eleventy today. I worked on my boilerplate to remove every trace of SASS.
👉 Can you catch em’ all?
I’d been tinkering with animations last week and wondered what else I could do with my Magnificent 7 characters. I love surprising people with hidden Easter Eggs, so I decided to use them in a little hidden game.
stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/can-you...
I’d been tinkering with animations last week and wondered what else I could do with my Magnificent 7 characters. I love surprising people with hidden Easter Eggs, so I decided to use them in a little hidden game.
stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/can-you...
Can you catch ’em all?
stuffandnonsense.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
👉 Can you catch em’ all?
I’d been tinkering with animations last week and wondered what else I could do with my Magnificent 7 characters. I love surprising people with hidden Easter Eggs, so I decided to use them in a little hidden game.
stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/can-you...
I’d been tinkering with animations last week and wondered what else I could do with my Magnificent 7 characters. I love surprising people with hidden Easter Eggs, so I decided to use them in a little hidden game.
stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/can-you...
What film have you watched again and again the most? Me? The Great Escape. (Again today.)
October 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
What film have you watched again and again the most? Me? The Great Escape. (Again today.)
👉 More Magnificent 7 Malarkey
I had some spare time earlier this week to add a little more finesse to my Magnificent 7 animated graphics, so I added a new background to my blog pages’ illustrations, which has some hidden features.
stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/more-ma...
I had some spare time earlier this week to add a little more finesse to my Magnificent 7 animated graphics, so I added a new background to my blog pages’ illustrations, which has some hidden features.
stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/more-ma...
More Magnificent 7 Malarkey
stuffandnonsense.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
👉 More Magnificent 7 Malarkey
I had some spare time earlier this week to add a little more finesse to my Magnificent 7 animated graphics, so I added a new background to my blog pages’ illustrations, which has some hidden features.
stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/more-ma...
I had some spare time earlier this week to add a little more finesse to my Magnificent 7 animated graphics, so I added a new background to my blog pages’ illustrations, which has some hidden features.
stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/more-ma...
For the life of me, I cannot remember why we started setting media query breakpoints in em and rem instead of px. and I can think of no good reason now. Educate me?
October 22, 2025 at 9:44 AM
For the life of me, I cannot remember why we started setting media query breakpoints in em and rem instead of px. and I can think of no good reason now. Educate me?
Anyone who says “I was gifted this…” instead of “I was given…” deserves to be “gifted” a slap.
October 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Anyone who says “I was gifted this…” instead of “I was given…” deserves to be “gifted” a slap.
Spent today with one of the very few people who knew my Dad. What a tragic story.
October 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Spent today with one of the very few people who knew my Dad. What a tragic story.
Also, the Ivory Mastodon app screen sticks part way down the screen, until you quit the app and relaunch!
October 16, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Also, the Ivory Mastodon app screen sticks part way down the screen, until you quit the app and relaunch!
Gah! The Bluesky app has this tiny square next to the Home button. It goes to the account page and I press it all the damn time!
October 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Gah! The Bluesky app has this tiny square next to the Home button. It goes to the account page and I press it all the damn time!
👉 Added a new animated graphic to my blog section. (Watch for the tumbleweed.) The background lighting changes throughout the day.
stuffandnonsense.co.uk
stuffandnonsense.co.uk
Website design agency • Web design, Flintshire, North Wales
Web design North Wales. Over 25 years experience in creative and high-performing product and website design, we create designs which to help your business succeed.
stuffandnonsense.co.uk
October 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM
👉 Added a new animated graphic to my blog section. (Watch for the tumbleweed.) The background lighting changes throughout the day.
stuffandnonsense.co.uk
stuffandnonsense.co.uk
Sunday should be interesting. I’m meeting someone who knew my Dad and she’s going to tell me about him.
October 16, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Sunday should be interesting. I’m meeting someone who knew my Dad and she’s going to tell me about him.
👉 How I fixed my Reduced Motion Broke My Layout problem
I went back to check animations with reduced motion enabled. Oh hell, my CSS grid had also stopped working!
stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/how-i-f...
I went back to check animations with reduced motion enabled. Oh hell, my CSS grid had also stopped working!
stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/how-i-f...
How I fixed my Reduced Motion Broke My Layout problem
stuffandnonsense.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
👉 How I fixed my Reduced Motion Broke My Layout problem
I went back to check animations with reduced motion enabled. Oh hell, my CSS grid had also stopped working!
stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/how-i-f...
I went back to check animations with reduced motion enabled. Oh hell, my CSS grid had also stopped working!
stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/how-i-f...
👉 Say hello to my Magnificent 7
CSS-Tricks’ Geoff and I talked about what to put in my bio. He called me a “veteran.” Geez, I felt old enough. So we settled on “pioneer.” That inspired new animated pioneers for my website.
stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/say-hel...
CSS-Tricks’ Geoff and I talked about what to put in my bio. He called me a “veteran.” Geez, I felt old enough. So we settled on “pioneer.” That inspired new animated pioneers for my website.
stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/say-hel...
Say hello to my Magnificent 7
stuffandnonsense.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
👉 Say hello to my Magnificent 7
CSS-Tricks’ Geoff and I talked about what to put in my bio. He called me a “veteran.” Geez, I felt old enough. So we settled on “pioneer.” That inspired new animated pioneers for my website.
stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/say-hel...
CSS-Tricks’ Geoff and I talked about what to put in my bio. He called me a “veteran.” Geez, I felt old enough. So we settled on “pioneer.” That inspired new animated pioneers for my website.
stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/say-hel...
Thank you Italy, for kicking Israel out of the 2026 World Cup.
October 14, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Thank you Italy, for kicking Israel out of the 2026 World Cup.
👉 Say hello to my Magnificent 7
CSS-Tricks’ Geoff and I talked about what to put in my bio. He called me a “veteran.” Geez, I felt old enough. So we settled on “pioneer.” That inspired new animated pioneers for my website.
stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/say-hel...
CSS-Tricks’ Geoff and I talked about what to put in my bio. He called me a “veteran.” Geez, I felt old enough. So we settled on “pioneer.” That inspired new animated pioneers for my website.
stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/say-hel...
Say hello to my Magnificent 7
stuffandnonsense.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 11:17 PM
👉 Say hello to my Magnificent 7
CSS-Tricks’ Geoff and I talked about what to put in my bio. He called me a “veteran.” Geez, I felt old enough. So we settled on “pioneer.” That inspired new animated pioneers for my website.
stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/say-hel...
CSS-Tricks’ Geoff and I talked about what to put in my bio. He called me a “veteran.” Geez, I felt old enough. So we settled on “pioneer.” That inspired new animated pioneers for my website.
stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/say-hel...
👉 Added fun new animated graphics across my website. All SVG and CSS. Let’s hope I didn’t break too much.
stuffandnonsense.co.uk
stuffandnonsense.co.uk
Website design agency • Web design, Flintshire, North Wales
Web design North Wales. Over 25 years experience in creative and high-performing product and website design, we create designs which to help your business succeed.
stuffandnonsense.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 11:58 PM
👉 Added fun new animated graphics across my website. All SVG and CSS. Let’s hope I didn’t break too much.
stuffandnonsense.co.uk
stuffandnonsense.co.uk
