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Quickly copy and paste Unicode whitespace characters — and learn how and when to use them.

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Everyone keeps telling you that you need to practice your fundamentals. What the hell does that mean, and how do you do it? This subreddit's all about concrete exercises that you can do to improve your fundamentals. We'll give you homework and we'll tell you where you're going right and wrong.

In this article we’re going to look at how to improve movement quality in the upper body with mobility, stability, and motor control focused exercises. Sports-specific needs aside, the bulk of my initial programming for my clients’ upper body work focuses on the posterior chain, and there's no change here. I believe in lengthening the front and strengthening the back of the body first.

Learn how to use line-height units when setting paragraph margins — creating vertical rhythm in your text.

My favorite thing to do with the lh unit is to set margins on content. Let’s set a new universal margin on paragraphs with:

p { margin-block: 1lh; }

When I’m not doing graphic design stuff at We Made This, I’m an Associate Lecturer on the Graphic Design BA course at the School of Art, Architecture and Design (previously named The Cass) at London Metropolitan University. It’s a wonderful course, with great connections to industry, and some really brilliant students who regularly create exciting and […]

Building desktop applications has traditionally been a challenge in the Perl ecosystem. While we have... Tagged with perl, c, xs, programming.

This mellow, jazz-flavored arrangement is based on Chet Baker’s version of the timeless standard.

⭐️ Get Recipe: https://theplantbasedschool.com/gigantes-plaki-greek-baked-beans/

This Gigantes Plaki (Greek baked beans) recipe gives you a simple, comforting one-pan dinner made with pantry beans, tomatoes, olive oil, and feta cheese—easy to make, deeply satisfying, and perfect for a cozy, healthy weeknight meal.

A piece of "heredoc" data can appear anywhere in a Perl expression. It starts with an initial operator written either << or <<~. The second variant with an added tilde ~, available since Perl v5.26, introduces an indented heredoc, where initial spaces on the left of each line are automatically removed by the interpreter.

Empty string as delimiter

The delimiter string can also be .. an empty string! In that case the heredoc content ends at the next empty line; this is an elegant way to minimize noise around the data.

Several heredocs can start on the same line, as in this example:

my @blogs = $dbh->selectall_array(<<~END_OF_SQL, {}, split(/\n/, <<~END_OF_BIND_VALUES));

Watch someone backspace 40 characters instead of pressing CTRL+W, and you’ll understand why this list exists.

Hacker News:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47525243

Learn how to use native CSS nesting in modern browsers. Understand the & selector, specificity rules, differences from Sass, and when to use nesting with practical examples for components, themes, and accessibility.

Here's where things get a little interesting. CSS nesting follows the same specificity rules as traditional CSS, with one important detail: the & nesting selector calculates its specificity like the :is() pseudo-class it uses the highest specificity from the parent selector list, not the sum of all the selectors.

You know fermented foods help your gut. But can you make your own delicious ferments? Here’s an expert’s easy guide to fermenting (almost) any plant.

2% salt by weight

Nearly half a century later, in 2007, Pan-European type foundry Underware was commissioned to create a special punctuation mark for the occasion and thus the ironieteken was born — a zigzaggy exclamation point denoting irony. But despite significant buzz across Dutch literary circles — including some criticism that, when placed in a row of several, it bore an unfortunate resemblance to the Nazi swastika — the mark quickly fizzled.

Wikipedia: Irony punctuation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation

Percontation point

The percontation point, a reversed question mark later referred to as a rhetorical question mark, was proposed by Henry Denham in the 1580s and was used at the end of a question that does not require an answer—a rhetorical question. Its use died out in the 17th century.

This character can be represented using the reversed question mark (⸮) found in Unicode as U+2E2E; another character approximating it is the Arabic question mark (؟), U+061F.

Ah, the "LSD" system (£sd). Before the UK went decimal in 1971, the currency was a quirky, base-12 and base-20 masterpiece of mental arithmetic that makes modern math look like child’s play.Here is the breakdown of how it worked:

33.625 depth might be too much! :-( Kenmore is 30" deep

The “linear()” timing function is a game-changer; it allows us to model physics-based motion right in vanilla CSS! That said, there are some limitations and quirks to be aware of. I’ve been experimenting with this API for a while now, and in this post, I’ll share all of the tips and tricks I’ve learned for using it effectively. ✨