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Re-thinking my own CSS framework and grids

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Friday April 4 2025

Research shows there are at least three categories of CSS Frameworks. Classless Class-light General None appeal to me anymore. In the "classless" category every single one I have looked at go well beyond "classless" and include application classes to show a demo page. Every "class-light"...

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Pain Management: CB2 Receptors

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Saturday March 29 2025

I was searching for a natural solution to help my wife achieve better sleep. My search drifted towards Cannabidiol (CBD), largely because I tried CBD several years ago. It worked, but was too difficult and too expensive to pursue on a regular basis. In my searches, I uncovered some information that...

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Get Rid Of SPAM From Your Forms

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Wednesday January 1 2025

One of my clients was targeted by spammers. The business was receiving upwards of 500 emails each day, plus their email address was used to generate a ton of email payloads to huge mailing lists – so much so that their website was threatened to be kicked off the server. That's when they became my...

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Bulma continues its downward slide

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Friday December 27 2024

Doesn't matter how many times I say it, nothing is quite as proof-positive as a screen shot of the W3 market share website as shown at the right. Yes, you read it right. Bulma CSS has 0.2% marketshare of all websites that use a CSS Framework. That also represents less than 0.1% of all websites. The...

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Back to driving part 2

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Wednesday October 30 2024

I have now had "orientations" at two different companies. I have decided to join the highest ranked company (in my area) as a school bus driver. In my entire time driving a school bus, I have not been able to avoid driving a major highway (Hwy 404) and this will be no exception. I look forward to...

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Back to driving a school bus

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Wednesday October 30 2024

I was a school bus driver (and trainer) until I retired Jan 1 2024. I will be returning to driving school bus, likely on December 1 2024 .... no need to ask about the reasons, I won't provide that. I am trying to work for a good company, though. I decided to look driver reviews on Indeed as a guide...

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Customizing Fontello

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Sunday October 20 2024

Using Fontello is a dream. I have selected a total of 99 icons that are the core of what I used with Font Awesome. Instead of loading over 1.8 Mb of data with Font Awesome, I am able to access all the icons I need at a total of 24Kb with Fontello. That includes a minified CSS file and the font...

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Bulma CSS v1.0.2 - more bloat

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Saturday October 19 2024

While working on some enhancements for my Blade CSS forms components, I found myself needing to add a few icons to the Blade CSS collection. By collection, I mean the Fontello icon groupings. If my preference is Font Awesome, why use Fontello? I gave up on Font Awesome when version 5 was released....

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Fix more useless CSS code for forms

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Thursday October 17 2024

Working on Blade CSS and found myself wanting to add icons to input fields, including those where the type was declared. There are a few that don't need icons ... date, file, and number. Those have a pre-built appearance or an icon defined by the browser (date, for example, has a calendar icon at...

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input type "date" issues

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Thursday October 17 2024

I've been working on PHPMailer-FVE for some time now. I came across an issue others should be aware of. Background: I am an advocate on using every possible security technique in dealing with forms and emails. In forms, I use front-end strategies and back-end strategies. Front-end usually means...

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