This is a curated list of articles I've read and have shared online as I believe they are worth sharing. I aim to update this list on a weekly basis. You can keep up to date with all the links I share by revisiting this page, or alternately, you can subscribe to the RSS feed for links.
Subgrid is here
Support for subgrid (part of the CSS Grid Level 2 specification has just landed in Firefox Nightly! To start experimenting with it you’ll need to enable the…
Own Your Web – Issue 12: Finding Your Rhythm
t is one of the most common reasons why we abandon our personal sites and blogs: at some point, we stop publishing. But why? Weren’t we so…
The IndieWeb is the new and the old web
When I first started developing websites back in 2000 the internet was a much simpler place. Google existed, but most people still used Yahoo or Ask Jeeves to…
Readable code tips: Introduction
There’s lots about code that slows us down I’ve been doing a lot of code reviews recently. And while most of the code I review works (by which I mean: meets the…
Better type layouts with CSS
I wanted to quickly share two newer CSS properties that make it easier to create nice, well-balanced layouts. The text-wrap property has two newish…
When to Nest CSS
With the recent news that CSS nesting is now available in the major evergreen browsers , our team was discussing how it differs from nesting in Sass , and the…
Time to Ditch Analytics? Tracking Scripts and Web Sustainability
This article on privacy-focussed web design by Paul Jardine and Becky Thorn of sustainably-minded web design agency Root raises some great points about the link…
Lightweight search in Eleventy
I've been using Pagefind for my site search for a while now and would readily recommend it, but I wanted to throw together something a bit lighter weight and…
We Need to Talk About Your Eleventy Post Dates
Since I really got back into following RSS feeds in the past couple of years I've noticed a problem with Eleventy sites[1] and post…
Welcome to the IndieWeb
Imagine you post and make new friends on an online network for more than a decade – and suddenly, your account gets suspended for no apparent reason. And there…