While working on a project, I paused a bit to style an icon + text. When the text is short, the icon is vertically centered. If the text wraps, the icon is aligned with the first line. ishadeed.com/article/alig... This is a result of using lh, aspect-ratio, height: auto, flexbox and more.

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And the new way (also well supported) is to use contain: inline-size; @chriscoyier.net did a nice recap here: blog.master.dev/the-figcapti... and the same trick works vertically as well: css-tip.com/equal-height...

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LLM's are helpful because they're trained on years of high quality educational material and forums where people helped each other. People aren't visiting forums or paying for educational content anymore because of LLM's. The well isn't going to magically fill itself in perpetuity.

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Hi, friends. The last 6 years have been a blast, but I just don't like being on The Internet anymore. I'm leaving DevRel, and I wrote a little bit about why. Look after yourselves, and each other. Love, Salma

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The main drive to nuke my site was an influx of Linkedin messages saying "claude recommended your site for personal website inspo!" I tried to reply to a few, but largely got replies asking about AI sitebuilders. I don't want a virtual billboard pointing at me anymore if that's the traffic.

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