Chloe @ PFR
@chloe.pfr.wtf
Managing Editor, Digital @ Pork Fried Rice Collective. I make squiggles and gradients, sometimes take pictures.
I legit only call them custom properties when I’m documenting for other people. Otherwise, they’re variables, because that’s what they would be in any other language. And I’m lazy with vocab. I also hate calling them the full name when we invoke with var()
November 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I legit only call them custom properties when I’m documenting for other people. Otherwise, they’re variables, because that’s what they would be in any other language. And I’m lazy with vocab. I also hate calling them the full name when we invoke with var()
Possibly a dumb question: when accessing a DOM element, if I need to change an attribute, I still need to access the DOM again instead of relying on the cached const/let of it, right? If I’m reading a property only, I’m down, but would that work for communicating states?
November 16, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Possibly a dumb question: when accessing a DOM element, if I need to change an attribute, I still need to access the DOM again instead of relying on the cached const/let of it, right? If I’m reading a property only, I’m down, but would that work for communicating states?
I have some elements that render differently based on viewport, and modifying attributes and roles in css based on viewport would be huge for me since I could stop using js to check the properties and update those attributes accordingly. That’s my only use case, but I could see it being messy.
November 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I have some elements that render differently based on viewport, and modifying attributes and roles in css based on viewport would be huge for me since I could stop using js to check the properties and update those attributes accordingly. That’s my only use case, but I could see it being messy.
We’re kinda doing that sorta? Like, the backwards compatibility thing is always gonna just be a thing for *vague gesture* reasons, but we are at least trying to version out new stuff with the whole baselines thing. We’re not doing it well, obviously, but meh. It exists kinda.
October 27, 2025 at 1:33 PM
We’re kinda doing that sorta? Like, the backwards compatibility thing is always gonna just be a thing for *vague gesture* reasons, but we are at least trying to version out new stuff with the whole baselines thing. We’re not doing it well, obviously, but meh. It exists kinda.
I love php, I just hate several CMS’s built on it. (I’m rewriting a Drupal site right now, and it’s such a painful CMS to use after getting comfortable with Astro on js and Craft on PHP)
October 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I love php, I just hate several CMS’s built on it. (I’m rewriting a Drupal site right now, and it’s such a painful CMS to use after getting comfortable with Astro on js and Craft on PHP)
To be fair, Firefox has some pretty arbitrary limitations. Every time I go, “hey, here’s a feature that solves all my problems”, I have to polyfill it hold off on it because Firefox hasn’t looked at it yet when everyone else shipped it 2 years ago.
October 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
To be fair, Firefox has some pretty arbitrary limitations. Every time I go, “hey, here’s a feature that solves all my problems”, I have to polyfill it hold off on it because Firefox hasn’t looked at it yet when everyone else shipped it 2 years ago.
👆🏻this person @font-face{}s.
October 16, 2025 at 11:27 PM
👆🏻this person @font-face{}s.
I had to put an encoded SVG into a background-url instead of as a separate SVG payload under the footer and just use a <use> on a clip-mask, and I felt so bad about it.
This at least makes me feel better.
This at least makes me feel better.
October 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I had to put an encoded SVG into a background-url instead of as a separate SVG payload under the footer and just use a <use> on a clip-mask, and I felt so bad about it.
This at least makes me feel better.
This at least makes me feel better.
Ah! I’ve been lied to!
(Thanks, Ana … again. Crap, I need to rewrite some things I was about to push to dev…)
(Thanks, Ana … again. Crap, I need to rewrite some things I was about to push to dev…)
October 12, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Ah! I’ve been lied to!
(Thanks, Ana … again. Crap, I need to rewrite some things I was about to push to dev…)
(Thanks, Ana … again. Crap, I need to rewrite some things I was about to push to dev…)
One of the new units available for use is dvh/dvw, which is vh/vw that factors in the browser elements, like toolbars and scroll bars, etc. Basically, they’re what they should have been the whole time.
October 12, 2025 at 4:59 AM
One of the new units available for use is dvh/dvw, which is vh/vw that factors in the browser elements, like toolbars and scroll bars, etc. Basically, they’re what they should have been the whole time.
As a web developer, oh god, please don’t hold me to this. I can already hear marketing and legal beating down my office door. (No, but seriously, the amount of added dev time and state storage complexity makes me want to cry)
October 7, 2025 at 8:11 AM
As a web developer, oh god, please don’t hold me to this. I can already hear marketing and legal beating down my office door. (No, but seriously, the amount of added dev time and state storage complexity makes me want to cry)
As a user of CF Stream, it’s kind of a heavy lift to get it useful, then the billing can be a killer unless you’re a tiny user.
If I wasn’t a tiny user only delivering existing videos, I probably would have looked elsewhere. Helps that I use CF for almost everything else, too, though.
If I wasn’t a tiny user only delivering existing videos, I probably would have looked elsewhere. Helps that I use CF for almost everything else, too, though.
September 25, 2025 at 12:39 AM
As a user of CF Stream, it’s kind of a heavy lift to get it useful, then the billing can be a killer unless you’re a tiny user.
If I wasn’t a tiny user only delivering existing videos, I probably would have looked elsewhere. Helps that I use CF for almost everything else, too, though.
If I wasn’t a tiny user only delivering existing videos, I probably would have looked elsewhere. Helps that I use CF for almost everything else, too, though.
I do not understand why mdx exists, much less why it’s become a big *thing*. I’ve found that markdoc is my happy medium in Astro, but I swear I’m the only one that uses it based on lack of documentation.
September 17, 2025 at 5:15 AM
I do not understand why mdx exists, much less why it’s become a big *thing*. I’ve found that markdoc is my happy medium in Astro, but I swear I’m the only one that uses it based on lack of documentation.
You can’t get rid of the compile step, but you can totally just write HTML as a source component. You don’t get the type safety or content collection.
But I also get just wanting to FTP up some HTML.
But I also get just wanting to FTP up some HTML.
September 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
You can’t get rid of the compile step, but you can totally just write HTML as a source component. You don’t get the type safety or content collection.
But I also get just wanting to FTP up some HTML.
But I also get just wanting to FTP up some HTML.
It would be several weeks of planning, coding, testing, security checking, etc, for a full team. An indie dev probably wouldn’t do it. But CF is massive, global, and talented. It’s not easy, but it’s baffling they chose to not put the work in.
September 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
It would be several weeks of planning, coding, testing, security checking, etc, for a full team. An indie dev probably wouldn’t do it. But CF is massive, global, and talented. It’s not easy, but it’s baffling they chose to not put the work in.
I think the punctuation and symbols covers dashes. The problem with an accented letter from a database perspective, is that it’s a whole replacement glyph that may or may not be in Latin extended. That said, it’s a dev laziness problem, and you can allow localization while filtering injections.
September 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I think the punctuation and symbols covers dashes. The problem with an accented letter from a database perspective, is that it’s a whole replacement glyph that may or may not be in Latin extended. That said, it’s a dev laziness problem, and you can allow localization while filtering injections.
To be clear, I have 0 sympathy for HPE as a company on this one (and everything else, screw that company), but all the sympathy in the world for my colleagues and myself that basically had to rebuild several products from scratch in a mad dash to deal with the change.
September 13, 2025 at 9:32 PM
To be clear, I have 0 sympathy for HPE as a company on this one (and everything else, screw that company), but all the sympathy in the world for my colleagues and myself that basically had to rebuild several products from scratch in a mad dash to deal with the change.
For a commercial product, absolutely, I agree, but Red Hat makes it hard to run your own custom repos like that with their weird satellite structure.
The big thing was the rug-pull on such a core dependency. Killing 8, then killing 8 stream mid cycle. Made life needlessly hard for us in support.
The big thing was the rug-pull on such a core dependency. Killing 8, then killing 8 stream mid cycle. Made life needlessly hard for us in support.
September 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
For a commercial product, absolutely, I agree, but Red Hat makes it hard to run your own custom repos like that with their weird satellite structure.
The big thing was the rug-pull on such a core dependency. Killing 8, then killing 8 stream mid cycle. Made life needlessly hard for us in support.
The big thing was the rug-pull on such a core dependency. Killing 8, then killing 8 stream mid cycle. Made life needlessly hard for us in support.
The shocking thing about CentOS isn’t the hosting companies using it, but the virtual appliances that do. A bunch of HPE stuff like Synergy and Simplivity use it for their virtual controllers, and I think so did Nimble and some stuff at Dell. Moving is a huge deal for them. It broke a lot of stuff.
September 13, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The shocking thing about CentOS isn’t the hosting companies using it, but the virtual appliances that do. A bunch of HPE stuff like Synergy and Simplivity use it for their virtual controllers, and I think so did Nimble and some stuff at Dell. Moving is a huge deal for them. It broke a lot of stuff.
Add Godzilla, a volcano spewing molten lava down Main Street, and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man while the olds say everything is fine and the young’s are just too sensitive. Then cube the output of the function.
a blue dumpster is floating in a flooded area near a sign that says narrows ramp
Alt: a blue dumpster is floating, flames shooting out the open top, in a flooded area near a sign that says narrows ramps
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September 13, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Add Godzilla, a volcano spewing molten lava down Main Street, and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man while the olds say everything is fine and the young’s are just too sensitive. Then cube the output of the function.
Though I have high 90’s across the board, so I guess I’m doing okay?
September 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Though I have high 90’s across the board, so I guess I’m doing okay?
I’m so in love with the faculty of my CC, and I’m in a support class plus tutoring for calculus. I’m definitely using the resources, but it’s still exhausting keeping up.
I had 4 calculus homework’s and 3 essays this week. Turned in the last one around 3a, and I’m so tired.
I had 4 calculus homework’s and 3 essays this week. Turned in the last one around 3a, and I’m so tired.
September 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I’m so in love with the faculty of my CC, and I’m in a support class plus tutoring for calculus. I’m definitely using the resources, but it’s still exhausting keeping up.
I had 4 calculus homework’s and 3 essays this week. Turned in the last one around 3a, and I’m so tired.
I had 4 calculus homework’s and 3 essays this week. Turned in the last one around 3a, and I’m so tired.
I’m also kinda old (34), and going for a bachelors in electrical engineering. I’m in a community college where the faculty cares, but even so, I feel like the water is exactly at my neck and I’m on tiptoes.
September 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I’m also kinda old (34), and going for a bachelors in electrical engineering. I’m in a community college where the faculty cares, but even so, I feel like the water is exactly at my neck and I’m on tiptoes.
I don’t know how you’re doing this. I’m 3 weeks into my first semester, working only 15 hours, and feel like I’m drowning all the time.
September 13, 2025 at 5:53 AM
I don’t know how you’re doing this. I’m 3 weeks into my first semester, working only 15 hours, and feel like I’m drowning all the time.