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Words and phrases I always struggle with
I’m not sure if it‘s just me, but there are certain words and phrases which—no matter how many times I look up—just seem to be beyond me! So I’ve decided to note their meanings for future reference. Hopefully this might help make the meanings stick.
- Hubris
- excessive pride or self-confidence
- Pathos
- a quality (e.g. of a person) that evokes pity or sadness. For example an actor might inject pathos into a character.
- Single point of failure
- a part of a system that, if it fails, the whole system fails. It’s generally a bad thing.
- Non-zero-sum game
- in game theory, a situation where one player's gain is not necessarily another player's loss. There are actions from which everyone can benefit.
Resources for special typographic characters
A collection of resources for finding that curly quote or em dash character quickly.
Codrops CSS Reference
Here’s a comprehensive and great-looking CSS reference featuring lots of examples.
While these days I normally reach for MDN Web Docs to keep me right on any given CSS feature, I’ve been thinking that with the recent explosion of new CSS features and syntax it’d be great to do a refresher course by working my way through a structured list of features—just like I did with Eric Meyer’s CSS: The Definitive Guide back in the day—and Codrops’ reference could be the perfect place.
In a similar vein, the CSS-Tricks Almanac looks good and cssreference.io is worth bookmarking, too.
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