James Stuckey Weber
jamessw.com
James Stuckey Weber
@jamessw.com
Web Developer and builder of tools Web Developers use.

@oddbird.dev
When you use position-area, you're actually creating a new containing block for your positioned element. Learn more about how this makes anchor positioning just work in many situations in my email course here - oddbird.dev/learn/course...
August 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Nailed it.
July 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Nailed it! #coyw #wwfc
May 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Today's release of Firefox shows you the offsetParent of fixed position elements in the DevTools Layout (if it's not the root). They're the only browser (so far) that shows the offset parent, which is super useful for troubleshooting anchor positioning.
April 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I Googled "Does beer freeze at 0deg", and the AI told me that 0°F equals 0°C. So I Googled "is this true?" and pasted what it told me... and it got managed to get it even more wrong.
January 22, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Helping out on the local Christmas Bird Count on a cold and snowy morning.
January 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I first started making the body a grid, with 7 divs, but before I got the nth selectors set up, he had lost interest. My second thought was a linear-gradient, but the attached image shows the named colors don't make a great rainbow.

They've moved on, but I want to be prepared for next time...
January 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
the best commits have a trailing double quote because you forgot you started the message with a single quote
November 19, 2024 at 7:05 PM