---
title: Expired Queues
description: >-
  A web development blog kept since 2009, under three names in turn - Core-CSS.net, then
  CSSJunction.com, now Expired Queues. Old posts wear their age.
url: https://expiredqueues.com/
image: https://expiredqueues.com/images/og/home-f53870e7.jpg
---

## Still current

2022–2026 · 10

2026·08 This year

### [The most-read thing I ever wrote is a Stack Overflow answer](https://expiredqueues.com/most-read-thing-i-wrote/)

A six-line CSS answer I posted on a Saturday in 2013 has 478,000 views. Nothing on this blog comes close.

2026·07 This year

### [Every answer needs an expiry date](https://expiredqueues.com/answers-need-expiry-dates/)

Stack Overflow made me wait eight weeks to speak, then deleted some of what I said. Meanwhile the answers that survived...

2026·05 This year

### [I went back and fixed the commas](https://expiredqueues.com/answers-i-went-back-to-fix/)

Four of my Stack Overflow answers got edited years after I wrote them. Every single edit was grammar. The advice I left...

2026·03 This year

### [Six weeks in 2013](https://expiredqueues.com/six-weeks-in-2013/)

In September 2013 I answered 31 questions on Stack Overflow. In October, eight. Then it stopped. Here is what was...

2026·01 This year

### [Smart living, but quieter](https://expiredqueues.com/smart-living/)

Three low-key devices that actually help: a CO2 sensor, a humidifier, and a robot vacuum.

2025·09 This year

### [Home network setup that just stays quiet](https://expiredqueues.com/home-network-setup/)

My simple home network: Pi-hole for privacy and a GL.iNet travel router to keep Wi-Fi stable in dead zones and on the...

2024·04 2 years ago

### [A better ls on macOS: use eza, but not as an alias](https://expiredqueues.com/better-ls-macos-eza/)

Replacing the macOS ls with eza takes one line of zsh - but if you write it as an alias it breaks the moment you pass it...

2023·08 3 years ago

### [Stop scrolling the Network panel: filter it](https://expiredqueues.com/filter-chrome-devtools-network-requests/)

The Network panel's filter box is not a search box. It takes keys - status-code, method, domain - and they combine,...

2023·02 3 years ago

### [Flutter vs. React Native: What You Need to Know Before Choosing Your Mobile App Framework](https://expiredqueues.com/flutter-vs-react-native-what-you-need-to-know/)

Flutter vs. React Native are two popular cross-platform mobile app development frameworks. React Native uses JavaScript...

2022·02 4 years ago

### [React Hooks explained](https://expiredqueues.com/react-hooks-explained/)

Hooks are functions that allow developers to "hook into" React state and lifecycle features from functional components....

## Kept as a record

2009–2019 · 70

Free PSDs, jQuery tricks, IE hacks. Still here because people land on them from search - the stamps say how old each one is, and nothing has been quietly rewritten.

2018·05

### [Git commands I wish I knew early](https://expiredqueues.com/git-commands-i-wish-i-knew-early/)

8 years ago

2018·06

### [How to stop zoom in on input focus on mobile devices](https://expiredqueues.com/stop-zoom-in-on-input-focus-on-mobile-devices/)

8 years ago

2015·12

### [How to: delete node\_modules folders in windows.](https://expiredqueues.com/delete-node-modules-folders/)

10 years ago

2013·07

### [How to set Cookies to share across all subdomains using JavaScript](https://expiredqueues.com/subdomain-cookie-javascript/)

13 years ago

2011·09

### [How to remove links dotted border in IE7?](https://expiredqueues.com/remove-dotted-border-in-ie7/)

14 years ago

2010·01

### [Create Tooltip using jQuery](https://expiredqueues.com/how-to-create-a-tooltip-using-jquery/)

16 years ago

[All 80 posts, by year →](https://expiredqueues.com/archive/)

## Tags

psd21 templates15 tips-tricks13 icons12 resources11

## Reading now

[![Cover of The Fountainhead](https://expiredqueues.com/images/opt/the-fountainhead-320.jpeg)](https://expiredqueues.com/books/the-fountainhead/)

[ The Fountainhead Ayn Rand\
1993 _&#xNAN;_p. 214 / 704](https://expiredqueues.com/books/the-fountainhead/)

## Lately finished

[![Cover of A History of Nepal](https://expiredqueues.com/images/opt/a-history-of-nepal-316.jpeg)](https://expiredqueues.com/books/a-history-of-nepal/ "A History of Nepal")

[ ](https://expiredqueues.com/books/a-history-of-nepal/ "A History of Nepal")

[![Cover of A Room of One's Own](https://expiredqueues.com/images/opt/a-room-of-ones-own-314.jpeg)](https://expiredqueues.com/books/a-room-of-ones-own/ "A Room of One's Own")

[ ](https://expiredqueues.com/books/a-room-of-ones-own/ "A Room of One's Own")

[![Cover of Aja Ramita Chha](https://expiredqueues.com/images/opt/aja-ramita-chha-320.jpeg)](https://expiredqueues.com/books/aja-ramita-chha/ "Aja Ramita Chha")

[The whole shelf56](https://expiredqueues.com/books/)

## About the archive

This blog has been going since 2009, first as Core-CSS.net, then CSSJunction.com, now Expired Queues. Old posts are still worded the way they were written, dates and all. Written by [Adrian](https://expiredqueues.com/about/).

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