Blogs about Front-end web development

I know I’m being tease, doling out these UX London speaker announcements in batches rather than one big reveal. Indulge me in my suspense-ratcheting behaviour. Today I’d like to unveil three speakers whose surnames start …

How do we write, design, and code a link that works for everyone on every device? Let’s dive into the world of creating the perfect link, without making a pig’s breakfast of it. adactio.com/links/20030

🆕 post on web.dev 6 CSS snippets every front-end developer should know in 2023 Toolbelt worthy, powerful, and stable CSS you can use today.

This post was written in early 2022 and sat in a corner of my site, hidden from the world, after AudioEye sent me a legal threat over a handful of tweets in April 2022. I …

I explore that although AI and Crypto get bad press, they really are a powerful duo.

Two weeks ago, I noticed a tweet by Jason Lengstorf about a Netlify project called Dusty Domains. The idea: use a domain that you registered but never actually used, "ship a site to Netlify and …

Over 5 years ago, I migrated this blog From Jekyll to Ghost. Back then, my reasons for moving to Ghost where because - I wanted a CMS Managing all the posts’ raw markdown files in …

I drive my kiddo to school in the morning, and my 12-minute return trip home is a fruitful time to think and prepare for my day. I had the realization that my little drive home …

Chrome 111 went stable this week. One of its many features is support for Trigonometric Functions in CSS. That means that you can now use cos(), sin(), tan(), and friends inside of calc()! That also …

11ty Template filters are ways of manipulating data in a variable tag in your template language of choice. Each template language brings it’s own set and 11ty adds a few defaults, as well. Using a …

I've spoken at a lot of events this year, some small community events, some large multitrack conferences, some meetups. All the events have had one thing in common. Organisers who care. Organisers who care about …

A follow-up to a space for service design. The first Government project I worked on was a licensing service. As part of the project, the license numbers were updated. That change stopped users from being …

I just figured out how to get my Android phone recognised by Android Debug Bridge (adb) on my MacBook, which finally allowed me to remote debug websites on Firefox Android. Just so I don’t forget …

On the 17th of November, I received a notification that I’d been mentioned on Twitter by someone I didn’t recognise. Since I don’t get a lot of mentions — maybe because I don’t tweet very …

At the end my previous post, I said I’d settle for direct control over widows and orphans in text blocks. It turns out not to be quite as a simple as one might think, with …

Intrigued and uneasy. That’s how I would describe my feelings about the latest wave of AI tools that seem to have appeared overnight. ChatGPT was the first tool I played around with, and I immediately …

Writing code can be repetitive, and many developers (myself included) opt to make our lives easier by configuring our code editor of choice to auto-complete common statements in the given coding language. My own preferred …

Doing a quick search here on CSS-Tricks shows just how many different ways there are to approach calendars. Some show how CSS Grid can create the layout efficiently. Some attempt to bring actual data into …

Today, we’re going to look at three different ways to structure utility libraries. Let’s dig in! What’s a utility library For today’s article, we’re talking specifically about utility libraries: collections of useful functions. These are …

A while back, I updated my Eleventy plugin for Ghost so you get more data from your Ghost instance, including the ability to retrieve draft posts. Here's how I used it to preview draft posts …