8 min
Measuring a consent banner
A client came back on the consent banner we'd built to ask whether the accept rate could be higher, and it turned out to be the only number anybody asked me for on the entire project.
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The apology
A parallax hero I was pretty pleased with gave a coworker a headache that lasted the rest of the afternoon, and they were the one who said sorry.
7 min
Cron schedules and cache windows
The merchandiser at a client could tell me how long a price change took to appear on the store, morning and afternoon separately, and nobody on our side could have told you either number.
7 min
Compared to last year
A client asked how the Black Friday weekend had gone compared to last year, and the chart I had to answer them with started in March.
2 min
git reflog
Almost nothing is actually gone after a bad reset, because git keeps a local log of everywhere HEAD has pointed for the last ninety days and hardly anybody knows to look at it.
7 min
A day for a phone number
Changing a phone number in a footer took me a full working day, and about 90 seconds of that day went on the phone number.
8 min
Both cards were mine
A client asked whether the price on the product cards could be bigger. There were two card components in that stylesheet, four months apart, both of them written by me.
7 min
The members area was a spreadsheet
Item seven on the brief was a members area, and six weeks later I found out what it was for, which was a price list somebody was sending by hand once a month.
9 min
I named it after the page
A landing page needed one block to sit closer to the heading above it, and the modifier I wrote to do that had the name of a page in it.
7 min
Nothing older than May
I went looking in Slack for the reasoning behind a strange line of code and search had nothing older than about five weeks, which turns out to be all the history we have.
2 min
fieldset and legend
A group of radio buttons has a question attached to it, and the question needs to be in the markup rather than in a heading that happens to sit nearby.
7 min
position: sticky and its containing block
Four declarations, all of them correct, and the one line stopping them from working was something I wrote three years ago on an element seven ancestors up.