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Hello World 👋, I'm Aileen Rae, a Software Engineer in Edinburgh. me@aileenrae.co.uk

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Bookmarks: February 2023

A collection of online reading I enjoyed in February of 2023

Bookmarks: January 2023

A collection of interesting things I found around the interwebs this last month.

Checking and unchecking a checkbox with JavaScript: a quick lesson on HTML IDL attributes

A snippet to check and uncheck an HTML checkbox with vanilla JavaScript. Plus an introduction to content attributes versus IDL attributes on HTML elements.

Fixing overflow: scroll padding in Firefox

Padding at the end of an overflow:scroll element doesn't work in Firefox. Here's how to work around it.

Pokémon as HTML list bullets using SASS functions

How to use numbered image URLs as the bullets of an HTML ordered list.

GitHub Actions: Fixing the 'Permission Denied' error for shell scripts

How to run a bash script in a GitHub Action.

Let's Build a HTML and CSS Landing Page with Parcel

An intro tutorial to Parcel by building and deploying a static website with HTML, SASS and JavaScript for free. Includes starter templates.

How to spoof your timezone in Google Chrome

How to spoof your timezone in Google Chrome without updating your system settings.

TIL: You can watch for nested properties changing in React's useEffect() hook

You can use nested properties in React's useEffect() dependency array.

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