2023 Wrapped 🔗
For the past few years I've tried to do a little retrospective post on the year that was. This year, inspired by the endless "such-and-such wrapped" t [...]
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Locking scroll with :has() 🔗
It's finally happened – with the release of Firefox 121.0 :has() has landed in all browsers (though writing ":has() has" is sadly no less awkward). In [...]
HTML is like a camera 🔗
Recently, as I started getting back into photography I read something that stuck with me (though sadly the source didn't). To paraphrase: If you were [...]
Legacy code 🔗
Before he retired, my dad was an electrical and diagnostic engineer. In short, he dedicated most of his adult life to designing and building lasers an [...]
Hand-thrown frontends 🔗
I've been thinking about my approach to frontend a lot recently and an analogy that comes up pretty consistently when talking about building user inte [...]
So long, 2022 🔗
It's been a little while since I did a year in review post, so let's get that out of the way first. For all the wild unknowns of 2020, 2021 was a land [...]
The Jammies 2022 🔗
To my surprise this website was recently nominated for the "Personal Website of the Year" award at Jamstack Conf 2022! To be nominated as a finalist i [...]
Holograms, light-leaks and how to build CSS-only shaders 🔗
.spec-example { margin: 50px 0; display: flex; justify-content: space-between; gap: 2.5rem; } .spec-example__static, .spec-exam [...]
Mind your language 🔗
*.flow p:lang(ja) { font-weight: bold; } .highlight-padding { border-radius: 1rem; border: 2px dashed var(--fill); background-im [...]
Getting started with Go 🔗
Lately, it seems like Go (or sometimes, Golang) is having a bit of a moment. Developed by Google, Go has been around for just over a decade now but ov [...]
The year that was(n't) 🔗
Holy. Shit. Let's get it out of the way - 2020 has been a prize dickhead. Like many of you I started the year with plans. I was going to learn X, Y an [...]
Introducing Rekishi 🔗
Imagine that you're building a website and you need all links to a particular type of content to open in a modal. On top of that, you would also like [...]
How to name your agency with NLP 🔗
As with so many things these days, it starts with clickbait. "17 tricks to running a digital agency" was, for the most part, the same kind of unremark [...]
Synthwave '84 has changed 🔗
It's been a wild ride since I first tweeted about Synthwave '84. The support has been amazing and I'd like to start by saying thanks everyone who has [...]
Launch day 🔗
Today is something of a milestone. For the first time in a long while, I have a new website. I'm not talking about a holding page, or link to a resumé [...]
Synthwave '84 🔗
Do you remember that endless summer back in '84? Cruising down the ocean-highway with the top down, the wind in our hair and heads buzzing with neon d [...]