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.
Deploy an Eleventy site to Cloudflare Pages efficiently with GitHub's action cache
I have wanted to move this site from Netlify for a while now, but the recent news about their bandwidth pricing made me finally do it. I looked into some…
Automated weekly links posts with raindrop.io and Eleventy
A post that's been getting a lot of traction recently is I miss human curation by Cassidy Williams, in which she laments that we're so reliant on algorithms…
The path to becoming a publisher - Piccalilli
In my 2023 wrap-up post I said the following: I also see a gap in publications. CSS-Tricks is done now, and unfortunately, been abandoned. A List Apart has…
AI and accessible front-end components: is the nuance generatable?
Companies are rushing to add generated AI capabilities to their products. Some promise to produce front-end components for you. Is that even possible, given the…
Which CSS framework should I use?
I’ve been ragging on Tailwind a lot lately (because it’s terrible). One of the natural follow-up questions I get is… Which CSS framework do you like? I tend to…
How to create a responsive grid system with CSS Grid
I recently updated the grid system on my site from Flexbox to CSS Grid. Today, I wanted to share how to use it, how it works under-the-hood, and why I made the…
Capo.js: A five minute web performance boost
You want a quick web performance win at work that’s sure to get you a promotion? Want it to only take five minutes? Then I got you. Capo.js is a tool to get…
Tailwind vs. Semantic CSS
Over the last week or two, I’ve written about why Tailwind is bad. Yesterday, I stumbled upon this article from Tero Piirainen comparing semantic CSS to…
Where I’m at on the whole CSS-Tricks thing
It was March 2022 when I sold CSS-Tricks to DigitalOcean. So it’s been just about 2 years now. This was me and my wife’s thinking: The negotiated sale price was…
Now's the time to own and host your own content
We've seen Meta, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Reddit, Automattic, Mozilla — name a company — integrate AI that continues to be trained on public data with or…