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text-overflow: ellipsis on multi-line text

2 min read

Adding an automatic ellipsis to some text if it overflows its content is simple enough. But what if you want your text to have multiple lines?

JOMO is a Beautiful Thing

4 min read

JOMO is the opposite of FOMO. It's the Joy of Missing Out on stuff that's bad for you.

Apple Vision Pro First Impressions

5 min read

Decided to jot down my first impressions of this weird device after trying it out for the first time.

Roleplaying in Orgrimmar

2 min read

Who would have thought that interacting with people on a multiplayer game could be fun?

CSS “Quantity Queries” are a thing now

4 min read

With the :has selector available everywhere now, there's a neat way of styling elements depending on how many elements are inside them.

Separating my website's content from its code

4 min read

Having an open source website is great, but having the content stored in the same spot as the code has some issues. On this post I walk through what I did to keep them separated.

Best longterm goal? Not having one

5 min read

I consider myself a pretty happy person. I do think a lot of it comes from me never really expecting much from myself. That's not as bad as it sounds.

Automating Social Media Preview Images

6 min read

Social media preview images are very useful if you want to attract people to your website. They're sometimes a pain to create, though. Let's automate it!

Thinking of a redesign

2 min read

I want my personal website to reflect a bit of who I am. Am I the same person I was 3-4 years ago?

5 Years of Fantinel.dev!

7 min read

My website has existed for half of my professional life now. In this post I look back at some snapshots of its history and talk about what's next.

Owning your stuff is pretty cool, actually

6 min read

Let's talk a bit about Obsidian, VC-funded apps, the appocalypse and how awesome Markdown life can be.

Stripping the web of its humanity

2 min read

A less human web is no good for anyone.

Progressive Enhancement (and why it matters)

8 min read

Progressive Enhancement isn't just another web jargon; it's a guiding principle shaping modern web development.

2023 In Retrospective

16 min read

A quiet year, but still with lots to talk about.

CSS's "isolation" property is pretty cool

1 min read

I had never heard about it before, but it's a pretty clean way of solving z-index related issues.

My Default Apps: 2023

2 min read

I'm jumping on the trend of posting my default apps!

Belonging Somewhere

7 min read

I could always see parts of myself belonging to some groups or places, but never really felt like I was truly a part of anything.

“Classic rock, Mario Kart, and why we can't agree on Tailwind”

1 min read

Great article from Josh Collinsworth explaining why Tailwind is good and bad for the exact same reasons.

The Open Web and "the masses"

6 min read

A rant about the Open Web and how it is not for everyone - but that's okay.

My Review of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

9 min read

A spoiler-free review of the ultimate Zelda game

How to automatically manage Node versions

3 min read

Tired of manually switching Node versions for different projects? Discover how to automate the process using nvm.

Iron Maiden's "Killers" is a concept album

12 min read

Seriously, hear me out

Container Queries Are Here!

5 min read

Responsive web development will never be the same again.

Conditional Hover Styles in CSS

2 min read

Have you ever crafted a nice hover effect for an element in your website, then opened it on mobile and saw that effect erroneously appear when that element is tapped on?