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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 14/08/2026

Me: It's Friday. I'm going to knock out everything on my list so I have a clean slate on Monday. My list: yeah good luck

The status column of my todo list. One item is "tests running". One "in progress". Four "awaiting response" and two "Blocked"

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 18/06/2026

Gotta collect the whole set 🔥

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 15/05/2026

Popcorn emoji needed as a reaction on GitHub

The massive PR rewriting all of bin in rust, with the dropdown of reaction emojis open

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 03/05/2026

Alabama white sauce is legit

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 23/04/2026

My dishwasher three days after I refill the rinse aid dispenser

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 17/03/2026

Get half off CSS in Depth today! www.manning.com/books/css-in...

Happy St. Patrick's WEEK! Half off all ebooks & print.

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 05/03/2026

I mean, just look at this game.

Mio standing beside another robot on a ledge, overlooking the bridges and a distant tram in the metropolis in shades of teal and cyan. It looks like a hand-drawn art style.

Mio floats in the air between two robots sitting in tall grass beside the ruins of an old stairway. The are in a lush field of pale orange grass with purple and magenta trees in the background.

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 27/11/2025

It’s like the sky knows I need to go fire up the smoker here

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 12/11/2025

Things are about to get serious 🔥

A box containing a Weber Smokey Mountain smoker

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 03/10/2025

@kevinpowell.co sometimes layout bugs have perfect comedic timing

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 29/09/2025

One of my periodic hobbies is making cakes. Today I made Opera Cake for my wife’s birthday 😄

Top down view of the opera cake. A perfect square of chocolate with crisp corners and white chocolate drizzle

A side angle view of the cake. Three layers of almond sponge cake with interspersed layers of chocolate ganache and coffee French buttercream

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 29/08/2025

It’s about time I add some more questions to this Help Me Decide feature in sidecar.us. Hoping to get these changes up by the weekend!

Screenshot of Sidecar's "Help me Decide" feature. First questions asks are you in the mood for something... bitter or smooth? (Bitter and complex is selected). Second question asks ...fruity or herbal? (Herbal/botanical is selected). The resulting cocktails found are the Ritz Bijou and Chocolate Negroni. (A la Lousianne is the third, which would be visible upon scrolling)

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 10/08/2025

Noice! Here are some ponderosa pine

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 01/08/2025

Summer sale at Manning. Get half off CSS in Depth this weekend! www.manning.com/books/css-in...

Summer sale: Save half on all MEAP, eBook, and print books

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 13/07/2025

Peach and bacon pizza is even better than I remembered

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 24/06/2025

Need some colors for your next web project? I’ve got you covered. If you haven’t seen the Theme Machine, check it out! 🎨 #css #webdev tools.keithjgrant.com/theme-machine/

Screenshot of several color swatches in the Theme Machine

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 03/06/2025

Gee, I wonder what people come to my website for 😆

A list of the top 10 web queries for keithjgrant.com. Every single one pertains to animating CSS height to auto

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 16/05/2025

Heck yeah. I haven’t listened to this one in decades, but I’m going to fix that now

Album cover of Frogstomp by Silverchair: a closeup of a green tree frog looking toward the camera isolated on a white background

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 03/04/2025

This is our cat’s hedgehog. We never actually see them play with it, but it moves around the house all the time. Nearly every morning, after the first hour or two of my work day, I mysteriously find this little guy in the kitchen.

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 22/03/2025

Nothing like a sunny pow day ⛷️

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 15/02/2025

Get half CSS in Depth this weekend with Manning’s Valentine’s Day sale! www.manning.com/books/css-in... #css #webdev

Happy Valentine’s Day! Half off all books. Sale ends February 16

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 06/01/2025

ICYMI, I made some big updates to the Theme Machine over the holidays. Check it out! tools.keithjgrant.com/theme-machine/

A series of colors, each in 16 different shades of darkness. The colors are labeled slate, blue, violet, sapphire, and gold

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 31/12/2024

Get half of CSS in Depth today at Manning! All books are marked down for the new year www.manning.com/books/css-in... #css #webdev

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 18/12/2024

Boy, it sure would be cool if the #ThemeMachine let you test your color palette with some real-world demos before exporting the CSS...

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 15/12/2024

Adding several options to control color shade generation in #ThemeMachine. I should also be able to add a fully user-customizable option to each of these down the road, too.

Shade generation settings. There are three options for lightness calculation and two options for chroma calculation.

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 13/12/2024

A fantastic, haunting little album I keep coming back to: Departure Songs by We Lost the Sea. Each song depicts (instrumentally; no lyrics) a tragic moment in history, including the Chernobyl Three and an epic two-track depiction of the Challenger launch and explosion.

Album cover of Departure Songs. A painting in tan, teal, and black shows a rocket rising between two mountains with a trail of exhaust.

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 13/12/2024

Get half off the eBook edition of CSS in Depth, Second Edition today at Manning! #css #webdev www.manning.com/books/css-in...

Megadeal countdown to 2025: Half off all e-books and live audio today only

Book cover of CSS in Depth, second edition by Keith J. Grant. Foreword by Chris Coyier

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 12/12/2024

Getting totally carried away with updates to the Theme Machine CSS palette builder

Long to do list of software improvements

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 06/12/2024

If you were using a tool to extrapolate color palettes based on a few selected colors, which matters more to you: your exact selected colors appear in the palettes, or for all the palettes to be uniform in lightness at any given position? #css #webdev #webdesign

Four color palettes showing tints of a color from near white to near black. The palettes are blue, red, orange, and teal. One color in each palette is highlighted with a rounded shape.

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 29/11/2024

We’ve holed up in San Juan Island to stare at the sea this week, so we’re having “Island turkey” (it’s trout) with a crab stuffing

A trout stuffed with bread crumbs and crab, topped with thin slices of orange

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 21/11/2024

Introduce yourself with four video games

Samus Aran on an elevator in Super Metroid

Mega Man fighting Metal Man in Mega Man 2

Link in the central room of the Forest Temple in Ocarina of Time

The traveler Hiebeck playing his banjo at a campfire in Outer Wilds

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 15/11/2024

Sure, Luxardo maraschino cherries are the gold standard, and Fabbri Amarena (in the blue and white bottle) is a solid alternative, but these Filthy cherries are easily the best cocktail cherries I’ve ever had.

A Manhattan cocktail and jar of cherries in front of liquor bottles.

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 12/11/2024

New official #CSS logo has dropped! github.com/CSS-Next/log...

CSS in a purple square. The top left corner is squared off but the other three are rounded

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 08/11/2024

A lot of new followers, so hello! 👋🏻 I’m a front-end dev at Red Hat, mostly working in React. I also love CSS and I’m the author of CSS in Depth. The second edition just released. Check it out if you want really master CSS, or just get up to speed on the latest! www.manning.com/books/css-in...

The cover of CSS in Depth, Second Edition

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 31/10/2024

Halloween sale! Get half off CSS in Depth, 2nd Edition today only at www.manning.com/books/css-in... #CSS #Webdev

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Keith J. Grant @keithjgrant.com · 27/06/2024

Introducing the Theme Machine! Build custom color palettes and export them as #CSS custom properties tools.keithjgrant.com/theme-machin...

A series of color shades in five hues, each fading from white to black

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