Patterns Day Patterns | Trys Mudford
Trys threads the themes of Patterns Day together:
Jeremy did a top job of combining big picture and nitty-gritty talks into the packed schedule.
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Explore the In Our Time archive | Braggoscope
Matt made this lovely website for spelunking and hyperlinking through the thousand episodes of Radio 4’s excellent In Our Time programme.
He’s also written a little bit about how he made it using some AI (artificial insemination) for the categorisation code.
Add support for defining a theme color for both light & dark modes (prefers color scheme)
There’s a good discussion here (kicked off by Jen) about providing different theme-color values in a web app manifest to match prefers-color-scheme in media queries.
Making single color SVG icons work in dark mode
Another good reason to use the currentColor value in SVGs.
Dark theme in a day – Marcin Wichary – Medium
On Ev’s blog, Marcin goes into great detail on theming an interface using CSS custom properties, SVG, HSL, and a smattering of CSS filters.
I was kind of amazed that all of this could happen via CSS and CSS alone: the colours, the transitions, the vectors, and even the images.
Pragmatic, Practical, and Progressive Theming with Custom Properties by Harry Roberts
Harry demonstrates a really good use for CSS custom properties—allowing users to theme an interface.
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