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Matt Smith

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Web Dev | Front-End Engineer | UX Designer

Show my password, please

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Stop me if this sounds familiar: you’re logging into a site or app on your phone, carefully entering your password, you tap the sign-in button, and… “Incorrect password, please try again.” Ohhh, snap! You didn’t enter the wrong password, you simply tapped a wrong key. It’s something you likely would’ve...

  • JavaScript
  • UX

Splitting a border around another element

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This is one of those “Can you do that, no you can’t do that, but can you really do that?” moments. Splitting the border of an element around another element. Although, I should put quotes around “splitting”. You’re not actually splitting a border, but rather creating the appearance of it....

  • CSS
  • HTML

Responsive table layout

1 min read
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One of my pet peeves in web design is how tables are often not optimized for non-desktop experiences. Let’s say I’m viewing Wikipedia on my iPhone, I’m looking through the episode list for Star Trek: The Next Generation (I grew up in the 90’s — deal), and the table has...

  • CSS
  • HTML
  • mobile
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