SuperGeekery: A blog probably of interest only to nerds by John F Morton.

A blog prob­a­bly of inter­est only to nerds by John F Mor­ton.

Link List

Wel­come to my link library. These are not links to con­tent I have cre­at­ed unless you see that men­tioned in the link’s descrip­tion. These are links I found inter­est­ing enough to want to keep track of. If you read Craft Link List, the Craft CMS newslet­ter I used to write, this page is a replace­ment of sorts for that exer­cise. Enough talk. Let’s hit the links.

27May2023

Building a dialog component

A foun­da­tion­al overview of how to build col­or-adap­tive, respon­sive, and acces­si­ble mini and mega modals with the

ele­ment.
20May2023

Getting started with View Transitions on multi-page apps | daverupert.com

Spurred by last week’s ShopTalk I rolled out View Tran­si­tions here on my sta­t­ic Jekyll site. I hadn’t real­ized View Tran­si­tions for mul­ti-page apps (MPAs) and sta­t­ic sites are ready for test­ing behind a flag in Chrome 113 . View Tran­si­tions for MPAs are a fea­ture that’s high on my CSS wish­list, so I got to it. It took less than an hour to do, requires zero JavaScript, and two lines of CSS. I’m pleased with the results.

11May2023

Building a RESTful API in Craft CMS

There are times when you want to make data and actions in Craft avail­able to exter­nal ser­vices. For­tu­nate­ly, Craft’s URL man­ag­er (or more accu­rate­ly…

28Apr2023

Manta Sleep Mask SOUND

The most com­fort­able Blue­tooth® sleep mask in exis­tence Razor-thin Blue­tooth® head­phones Per­fo­rat­ed mate­ri­als for air­flow

22Apr2023

Container Query Units and Fluid Typography | Modern CSS Solutions

To learn more about the behav­iors of con­tain­er query units, we’ll explore three flu­id typog­ra­phy tech­niques applied via a mix­in” using cus­tom prop­er­ties. These upgrad­ed meth­ods will pro­duce tru­ly respon­sive typog­ra­phy, regard­less of con­text.

14Apr2023

DiskStation® DS1823xs+ | Synology Inc.

Flex­i­ble large-scale stor­age for small and medi­um-sized busi­ness­es. The Syn­ol­o­gy DS1823xs+ is capa­ble of hard­ware-accel­er­at­ed video transcod­ing. It is equipped with AMD Ryzen V1780B D‑1567 12-core proces­sor and sup­ports Intel Quick Sync Video, which pro­vides hard­ware accel­er­a­tion for video transcod­ing tasks.