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Will Browar
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Professional programmer (Front-end Development Lead) 👨🏻‍💻, long-time drummer 🥁, aspiring woodworker 🪚, forever photography student 📸, Craft CMS plugin programmer 🥃

https://wbrowar.com
Admin Bar for Craft CMS 5.8 includes a new Queue widget. It works like the CP does, in that if a job is waiting in the queue it will attempt to run it on page load and it will display the status of the queue.

You can also manually run the queue or jump to the Queue Manager.

#CraftCMS
December 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Currently in the (repair) shop
December 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Today I'm going to swap it out for an emporia. They are apparently not that good on software either, but honestly I just want to plug my car in and let the car handle the smart stuff.
December 17, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Kicking off my vacation giving my birdfeeder a little TLC after the squirrels got to it a few months ago.

Cutting wood, glass, and maybe some metal to reinforce the front this time around.

#maker
December 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Cleaned this custom widget up. Since Craft CMS lets you pick icons for editable types, this shows the icon for each page's entry type.

It gave me an idea for another Admin Bar feature that I put together today :)

#CraftCMS
December 14, 2025 at 9:33 PM
This one bit of dogfooding has saved me dozens of clicks this week. Dozens.

#CraftCMS
December 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
VW is offering a $100 rebate on NCAS to CCS adapters for folks who have bought VW EVs, so my wife and I picked up ours today. I'll still prefer to charge at Electify America and other places, but this opens up a lot more choices if we're in a pinch.

#EV #VW
November 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I’ve been making some progress on the 2.0 branch! Keyboard navigation is done, but I’m still working out focus-visible styles. I also added aria-labels where I think they make sense. Plus made it easier to extend these components.

#WebComponents #CSS #JavaScript #HTML #CraftCMS
November 20, 2025 at 11:34 PM
🐶❄️
November 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Using one chonkey toolbar to summon another chonkey toolbar.

#CraftCMS
November 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
By default, Admin Bar Component scrolls horizontally when you have too many items on it, but with a little CSS you can stack the items inside the buttons area. The next update to Admin Bar Component will fix things like the logout button to make this look better.

#WebComponents #CSS #CraftCMS
November 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Noodling around with another Admin Bar feature to save Craft CMS developers a few clicks. Enable the debug toolbar on the front end from the front end.

#CraftCMS
November 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This year was a success! A little on the salty side, but overall we got 4 tasty batches. I asked my younger kid for flavor ideas and we went with two types of BBQ sauce, our usual cayenne/sugar, and for the wildcard we did a vanilla flavor using vanilla extract.
October 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
🥃 Admin Bar for Craft CMS 5.7.1 is out with a quick update to how API requests are displayed. The progress bar now fits the theme you choose and flashes to green when a successful API request is made. It'll flash red on error (like when Admin Bar can't reach the CMS).

#CraftCMS #CMS
October 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
If the full bar color is too much, the height of the bar is adjustable in CSS. Also, the colors of the 3 states (blue, green, and red) are customizable to fit with your website's branding 💅
October 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Yay or nay?

POV: you make an API call from your admin toolbar and the toolbar is a visual progress bar.

The attribute values for this can be:

Display progress in blue: 0-99

Success in green: 100

Failure in red: -1

#WebComponents #CSS
October 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
LEGO has slowly been selling my childhood back to me and I'm here for it 💸

#LEGO #Nintendo #Gremlins
October 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
After a bunch of tiny tweaks and design iterations I'm proud of my simple little toolbar component. I have some ideas for markup optimizations and a few new features, but I'm happy with the current design and how flexible it is to change it.

#CSS #WebComponents
October 1, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Okay, this was sort of an accidental thing that happened when moving through Live Photos on the Photos app of my iPhone. I'd caption this:

" you might be wondering how I got here.." 🐶

#dogs
September 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The last of my UniFi cameras is up! This one took a while to run Ethernet from the basement through the exterior of the house, plus I didn't want to permanently install it into the soffit because it might need to move in the future. Painted aluminum worked for a nice temporary mounting setup.
September 22, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Okay `contrast-color()` is going to be very cool! Here's an example of how `color-mix()` can be used along with `contrast-color()` to set `color` and `background-color` properties from one color variable.

codepen.io/wbrowar/pen/jEbgjGK

#CSS
September 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The guys still got it 🎸🥁
September 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Nice costume, kid, but it's not even Halloween for another month.

#bugs #insects
September 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Today I got to see some art from a friend of mine in person. He's been working on this series for a while now and just got several pieces placed in a local gallery.

If you dig it, check out his in-progress stuff here: www.instagram.com/mark_stone_...

#art #abstract #painting
September 8, 2025 at 1:18 AM
What's your Chemical Romance? This one's mine.

#music #mcr #MyChemicalRomance
August 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM