I thought it was high time I made some effort in cleaning up and streamlining my post composition workflow, while riding the wave of my small redesign).

I’ve been wanting for a while a more practical daily-use watch. One that is clearly readable in light and dark, not oversized, water resistant, and shows the date. I’m surprised it took me this long to find all that in Seiko’s venerable “5” series.

Getting some unexpected behavior when using viewport units (vw, vh, vmin, and vmax) to size width in Webkit browsers:

When elements have a fixed width set in a viewport unit, their parents no longer contain them properly in Webkit browsers.

Open the following in Chrome (tried version 26 stable, and 29 Canary) or Safari 6, and compare to Firefox (tried in version 20):

Check out this Pen!

Here’s a screenshot of what that looks like in Chrome 26:

Here’s the same thing in Firefox 20:

What I’d expect is the Firefox case, where the dark green parent element properly stretches to fit the width of its content (in this case, the child elements with fixed viewport-unit widths).

What do you think? A real bug? Certainly, one of them is wrong, and I’m pretty sure it’s Webkit, since the behavior with other types of units (px, em, rem, etc.) is like the Firefox screenshot. I’ll have to check it out in IE10, which supports viewport units as well, according to Can I Use.

Additionally, it looks like there’s weirdness in the height, considering the lime green box in the Firefox screenshot is so much taller. Probably a difference in what each browser is considering the viewport. I’ll investigate that further.

Been having the itch since the beginning of the year to make some changes to my year-old site design. So I worked on it on-and-off for several days, and launched it last week. In addition to some small clean-up, I’ve changed some fonts and colors. I’d barely want to call it a “redesign” at all, but there are some fun details I want to note.