Blogs about Front-end web development

Twitter is currently a lot like one of those spiral coin drop wishing wells you encounter at the mall. The quarter that is its imminent demise is revolving faster and faster and will probably drop …

This post is probably too long, but I need someplace that I can refer to. As is often the case, I am writing this to sort my thoughts, primarily. But I am hoping to give …

It would be easier to have an accessible web if all we did with it was publish documents. Blobs of text, images here and there. But modern sites (or “applications”) do a lot more than …

I’ll admit, I’m late to the logical properties party. The purist in me loves the idea because it makes CSS more internally consistent with its design to be a language-agnostic framework for uni-directional layout. Chris …

I wrote Responsible JavaScript for A Book Apart. I hope you’ll consider buying it, and if you do, I hope you like it.

Large language models like GPT-4 are becoming increasingly capable, at an alarming rate. Within a couple of years, we won't need developers any more! …Or at least, that's the narrative going viral on Twitter. I'm …

Eleven years ago I published my first article on this site, and it's still alive. Writing # I haven't really published anything in the last year, only five thoughts (notes), but no technical article at …

It seems to be trendy to trash on React again. Look, I know these criticisms aren’t targeted at me, but I can’t help but feel defensive when I see post after post accusing React of …

A few weeks ago I gave a talk for Smashing Meets about Web3. Find the talk description below. You can watch the video of ‘Web3: creating problems where we need solutions’ on Smashing Magazine’s Vimeo. …

We are inveterate storytellers, “who create our own identities around a story,” says philosopher Owen Flanagan. It seems appropriate that story (without the definitive article) is a powerful design thinking tool. Task and user flows …

I’d been meaning to migrate my blog off wordpress.com for a long time. I set it up in 2009 and while I still love the ease of not having to maintain a Wordpress install, lots …

I know I’m late to the party, but there are a few things on my CSS wish list I haven’t seen on others, so I thought I’d share. Visually hidden content I'd love to see …

I know I’m late to the party, but there are a few things on my CSS wish list I haven’t seen on others, so I thought I’d share. Visually hidden content I'd love to see …

Leonie Watson just shared an interesting audio snippet on Mastodon: https://front-end.social/@tink/110007014963441869 What sounds like her speaking about accessibility is actually not Leonie, but an AI-generated synthetic voice, a cloned version of Leonie’s voice based on …

New powers unlocked! When my Alfred word counting workflow stopped working (flowing?) I discovered it was written as a php script – and could be re-written with JS. So I did! I’ve been using Alfred …

Wow, long time, no posts! Anyway, about them text-to-art generative models going about, eh? Surprising nobody: I am extremely into them. I’ve been using DALL-E and MidJourney since they came out, and even though tons …

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Security is important. Nobody wants to be the person advocating for less security. So nobody wants to say it. But somebody has to say it. So I guess I’ll say it. The way npm audit …

Update: June 28th, 2022: Scott came through with a smart approach using a <details> and <summary> on WebPageTest. Barry showed us a smart approach using a footer based menu that’s progressively ehanced on the Web …