Ryan Trimble

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What the heck is an SVG sprite sheet?

What is an SVG? What is a Sprite Sheet? Who are you? Those questions answered, and more.

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Creating a Guestbook with Astro DB

Astro added a database and now I feel powerful.

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Cool VSCode Plugins

Some neat plugins that I use so often I have forgotten they are plugins.

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CSS-Only Scroll Animations

I’m still digging into all the amazing things I learned at CSS Day!

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Introducing CSS Harrisburg

A new community for web developers in the central Pennsylvania area!

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Mixing Colors with CSS

I’ve been digging into many new CSS features since CSS Day, including mixing colors.

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Visiting Amsterdam for CSS Day

I traveled over 4,000 miles to attend the only CSS conference in the world.

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Vue Conf Recap

Recapping Vue Conf 2023 in New Orleans, LA.

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Preparing for Vue Conf with Nuxt

Digging into the Nuxt framework ahead of Vue Conf

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Accessible Slider Attempt

I attempted to make a slider element with accessibility considerations.

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The Popover API is exciting, sort of

Yet another experimental feature that I'm excited for, but is Chrome only.

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The Mountain Goats at XL Live

I got to see The Mountain Goats and it was amazing.

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I Love Cartoons

I'm a fan of all things animated, here are a few great shows to check out.

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Arc Browser is Awesome

Product review of Arc Browser.

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Why Astro is my Favorite Framework

Convincing you to use Astro.

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The Animals that Live inside My House

Profiles of all of our pets.

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Thoughts on Artificial Intelligence

Sideline observations on artificial intelligence.

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My Favorite CSS Snippets

A few of my favorite CSS snippets.

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The Last of Us

My thoughts on the HBO adaption of The Last of Us.

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Enhancing the Command Line with Fig

Product review of the CLI enhancing tool: Fig.

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Building with Polypane

Product review of Polypane, a favorite in my web developer toolkit.

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JavaScript List Formatting and Astro

JavaScript features work well with Astro (obviously).

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London Calling

I finally took an actual vacation and experienced the miracle of flight.

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New Website

Redesigning my website using Astro and modern CSS!

Let's work together!