marcomezzavilla

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Interested in web dev, UI/UX, and technology in general. marcomezzavilla.com + glitch.dance
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Comment · 8 days ago
Yes, but coverage outside the US is surprisingly sparse. Many European countries (Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Greece…) have fewer than 20 points of interest each.
Comment · 2 months ago
Message received loud and clear.

Just to clarify why there aren’t any demos right now: I originally built the site mostly for myself, as a quick reminder for simple things whose syntax is easy to forget.

The use case was simple: I have my editor open, quickly check the site, copy those 2 or 3 lines, and get back to work, already knowing exactly what they do.

Sharing it publicly came later, so demos/screenshots weren’t really part of the original idea.

That said, I’m happy to take the criticism on board, even if I don’t always agree with the delivery :)

Comment · 2 months ago
It wasn’t, but I’d be curious to know what specifically gave you that impression.
Comment · 2 months ago
You’re right: it doesn’t identify the device type, so the title is misleading.

The intended point is that device type is often the wrong thing to detect: a touchscreen laptop may expose both coarse and fine pointers, while a tablet may be connected to a mouse or trackpad. The snippet detects available input capabilities instead, which is usually what the interface should respond to.

I wasn’t particularly careful with the titles, but this one should be "Detect input capabilities". Thanks for the heads-up!

Comment · 2 months ago
Features built directly into the browser, without requiring a framework or third-party library.

If the term is confusing, I’m open to better wording.

Comment · 2 months ago
Agree to disagree. I don’t think preferring an in-place reveal makes navigation to a dedicated page a cheap UI/UX decision, it was a deliberate choice.

Each note has a stable URL that can be shared or bookmarked and can be indexed independently. A dedicated page also leaves room for longer content or links to related notes.

Flip interactions also behave differently on touch devices and require more care around keyboard accessibility. It’s a valid alternative, but I don’t see navigation to a standalone document as something inherently undesirable on the web.

Comment · 2 months ago
Yeah, it makes perfect sense. It’s definitely on my "I really should do this, but…" list.
Comment · 2 months ago
Not AI, just not a native speaker.
Comment · 2 months ago
I often end up there by accident and have a laugh every time.
Comment · 2 months ago
Sure. I was thinking of fairly narrow cases, not ordinary page scrolling:

- A swipe/drag carousel with visible arrows or dots, especially a looping carousel where the native scrollbar does not represent a meaningful start and end

- An accordion or expanding panel that animates to reveal all of its content. During the transition, its intermediate height may briefly produce a scrollbar (and a visual flash), even though the fully expanded state does not need one

- Highly visual or experimental interfaces where scrolling is communicated through another control, or where the scrollable area is decorative and scrolling is not required to access the content

Comment · 2 months ago
If you mean the "Hide scrollbars" note, I agree 100% (:

There are a few specific situations where it can be useful, but I added the caveat precisely because it’s generally not a good practice.

Comment · 2 months ago
You’re absolutely right, thanks for the feedback. I initially included live examples (mostly through CodePen), but they were taking too much time to maintain, so I stopped.

The Bash entry was really just a half-finished personal note that I never properly edited. It’s probably out of scope too.

Comment · 2 months ago
That’s fair, "tricks" may be overselling it. The website is meant to be a small, opinionated collection of features I want to remember, not a replacement for an authoritative reference like MDN. I can probably make that positioning clearer.

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