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2026-09-07 [Older] Andreas Haerter: Rolling Wireless RW350R-GL / Fibocom FM350R-GL (5G module) on Linux
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Eric Bailey ☛ CSS-Tricks could be a co-op
CSS-Tricks repeatedly gave me the opportunity to write for them. In doing so, the immense popularity and huge reach of the publication helped to both socialize and normalize accessibility as a mainstream frontend concern. I’m deeply thankful to them for this.
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Dominick Jay ☛ CSS Columns Are the Layout Method Everyone Forgets
Saw a post from Theo Soti this week making the case for the CSS columns property. It’s a good use case for multi-column, newspaper-style text layout. No grid, no flexbox, two lines of CSS. He’s right that it’s underused, I’m not sure I’ve reached for it more than a handful of times since finding out about it, and it’s normally as a last resort when something that more ingrained options like flex or grid don’t seem to do the trick.
Given this lack of usage but wanting to dive in a bit more, I built the two-line version from the original, and then some more to figure out what the downsides are. There must be some big ones, right? For it to somewhat fly under the radar?
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University of Toronto ☛ Having an Exim test plan for a server saved me
The specific fix was simple, and I'm honestly surprised that Exim still allowed the unfixed version in Ubuntu 22.04. But I probably wouldn't have found this problem if I hadn't had a written test plan with commands that I was going to cut and paste, because having that test plan written down meant that testing all of the features it covered is a relatively mindless exercise that mostly consists of copying and pasting commands. That might be boring but it's easy and so I did it all.
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Andy Bell ☛ A decent custom checkbox pattern for until ::checkmark is ready
We’re miles off from that capability yet — it doesn’t look like any browser is working on it — so allow me to show you how to build a nice custom checkbox pattern for until we have the browser capabilities we’re after.