https://blog.dennislin.io/ Recent content on Dennis Lin - The Rendered Soul https://blog.dennislin.io/%3Clink%20or%20path%20of%20image%20for%20opengraph,%20twitter-cards%3E https://blog.dennislin.io/%3Clink%20or%20path%20of%20image%20for%20opengraph,%20twitter-cards%3E Hugo -- 0.153.2 en Sat, 01 Mar 2025 21:14:59 -0700 https://blog.dennislin.io/posts/2025-03-01-standard-schema-validation-babel-fish/ Sat, 01 Mar 2025 21:14:59 -0700 https://blog.dennislin.io/posts/2025-03-01-standard-schema-validation-babel-fish/ One interface to unite them all: How a simple spec is transforming the fragmented ecosystem of schema validation libraries https://blog.dennislin.io/posts/2025-02-22-advanced-attr-css-pragmatic/ Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:03:14 -0800 https://blog.dennislin.io/posts/2025-02-22-advanced-attr-css-pragmatic/ Typed attr() finally makes attributes useful beyond generated content, and it leads to some surprisingly nice little CSS experiments 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