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Notes by Nicolas Gallagher

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Notes on software engineering and other topics.

Frontend / CSS / browsersJavaScript / TypeScriptWeb development

’10’15’20’25
Posts
30 from 4 Jul 2009 to 24 Nov 2025
Posting
now and then (1 in the last year)
Kind
personal blog
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2025 1

  1. One React for Web and Native

2024 1

  1. Motorcycle safety gear I trust

2018 2

  1. Making SVG icon libraries for React apps
  2. Redux modules and code-splitting

2014 2

  1. Flexible CSS cover images
  2. A simple Git deployment strategy for static sites

2013 2

  1. Walking around San Francisco on July 4th
  2. Moving from London to San Francisco

2012 3

  1. About HTML semantics and front-end architecture
  2. CSS: the cascade, specificity, and inheritance
  3. About normalize.css

2011 5

  1. An introduction to CSS pseudo-element hacks
  2. Quick tip: git-checkout specific files from another branch
  3. Mac OS X bootable backup drive with rsync
  4. A new micro clearfix hack
  5. CSS background image hacks

2010 10

  1. Pure CSS folded-corner effect
  2. CSS drop-shadows without images
  3. Pure CSS GUI icons
  4. Animal virtues & choice fetishism
  5. CSS image replacement. One more time.
  6. Multiple Backgrounds and Borders with CSS 2.1
  7. CSS pseudo-element Solar System
  8. Photogenic toad
  9. Pure CSS speech bubbles
  10. CSS typography experiment

2009 4

  1. Wasp nest
  2. Ladybird macro photographs
  3. Photograph of a curious cow
  4. Hoverfly on a pink flower