Timothy Foster

Timothy Foster @auroratide

About: Trying to make the world a funner place through coding.

Location:
Dallas
Joined:
Jun 6, 2019

Timothy Foster
articles - 15 total

Professional Programmer Proves Prolog Prolongs Productivity

At least... probably 🙃 productive(X) :- not(takes_breaks(X)). takes_breaks(X) :-...

Learn More 1 0Apr 1

The Short Life of a Llama (a poem)

This is a poem I wrote some time ago about AI Safety. I'm not the best writer, but hopefully this...

Learn More 1 0Jan 26

A (more) realistic card flip animation

There are a lot of cards on the internet, and a lot of them flip, revealing double-sided content. But...

Learn More 35 4Feb 20 '24

How to NOT use aria-label

In light of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, I started writing about accessible web components,...

Learn More 10 2May 26 '22

Using Astronomy, Chemistry, and Meteorology to Name CSS Variables

Sometimes I use CSS variables to give names to specific font sizes and spacings. It might look like...

Learn More 15 0Apr 1 '22

I can CSS a focused input, but what about its label?

Welcome to Stackazon, your one-stop shop for great solutions to tricky coding problems! Your search...

Learn More 27 1Mar 4 '22

Server Side Rendering a Random Number wasn't easy

Have you ever tried rendering a random number with Svelte before? Here's a rather quick...

Learn More 19 6Jan 28 '22

What HTML tag do you use for Sarcasm?

Ah yes, sarcasm, the pinnacle of human language. Life would be so incredibly dull without it. And...

Learn More 11 2Oct 12 '21

Making a Toggle Switch into a New HTML Element

Hey, let's build a light bulb! Or, at least the on/off switch part of the light bulb... The toggle...

Learn More 31 6Sep 25 '21

A Typewriter, but using a New HTML Tag

So last time, I made a typewriter animation without HTML, CSS, nor Javascript. What happens if...

Learn More 390 18Sep 9 '21

A Typewriter, but with no HTML, CSS, or JS?!

Apparently a battle of sorts has erupted amongst devs clamoring for the title of Best Typewriter...

Learn More 98 12Aug 29 '21

Tips That Made My Site More Accessible

If you want to learn more about creating accessible content, I highly recommend giving this article...

Learn More 20 1Aug 28 '21

Pixelart and the image-rendering Paradox

CSS offers a nifty property called image-rendering which lets you influence how images scale....

Learn More 27 1Aug 7 '21

Image Alt Text, the Way the Spec Intended It

For years, I had been writing the wrong alt text for my images. HTML, the language in which websites...

Learn More 8 0Jul 16 '21

The What, How, and Why of Nicely Testing React Components

So I guess hooks are the new hip thing in the React ecosphere. And I gotta admit, they're pretty ters...

Learn More 19 1Jun 29 '19