Dalmas Barmasai

Something I am sitting with: ambition and contentment are not opposites. You can want more and still be grateful for where your feet are. The people who cannot do both burn out or stall. #faith

A masonry layout in six lines of CSS using columns. Items of different heights pack together with no gaps and no library.

The catch worth knowing: columns read top to bottom, not left to right, so the order is different from what people expect. #css

Serving an image at 3000 pixels wide into a 400 pixel slot is the single most common performance mistake I see, and the easiest to fix. #dev #design

Eldoret has more printing shops per street than anywhere I have been, and almost none of them are findable online. Somebody is going to build that directory and do very well. #eldoret

HTTPS is not about hiding secrets. Most of what it protects is boring. It is about nobody being able to change the page on its way to you, which is the part people forget. #dev

CSS has container queries now. You can style a component by how much room IT has, not how wide the window is. That is the thing we were faking with JavaScript for ten years. #css

Faith and work are not two drawers. The way you treat a client who has not paid yet is the same thing as the way you behave on Sunday. It is one life. #faith

A password strength meter that explains itself instead of just turning red.

It scores length first, because length beats every clever substitution, and it says which thing would help most next. #javascript #design

Nilikuwa nadhani nimemaliza. Nikaopen kwa simu. Hapo ndio kazi ilianza.

Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood. Two hearts pump to the gills, one to the rest of the body, and the body one stops beating when they swim. Which is why they prefer crawling. #science