Hi, I’m Phil Nelson, a writer, developer, and audio-visual maker of stuff. I have been making stuff online for over 25 years. I run RetroStrange and Set Side B. Good to see you.

Blog Archives

Month: July 2019

  • New Work: “Warming Up The Band”

    Occipital has posted a new teaser video I worked on, please do check it out.

    This is the first big animated render I’ve ever produced and shown to the public, so far. It was created using Modo 13 on macOS, Final Cut Pro, and Compressor.

  • A Deep Dive on Z-Index Usage

    How do you make sure your annoying popup is shown on top of every other element in the page, when you don’t know how many there are, who wrote them, and how bad they wanted their elements to be on top? That’s when you set your z-index to 100, or maybe 999, or maybe, just maybe 99999 to be really sure yours will win.

    That, at least, is how I write my CSS. In the rest of this post, we will look at millions of z indices to see what everyone else does.

    Of course, if you make websites for a living you’ll find this interesting. Like most things available here.