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Creating CSS Theme Variables from a JS file

Wholegrain Digital’s Response to the BBC’s Web Sustainability Report

Debating the Merits of LLMs

What I learned from migrating a Vue project from Vuex to Pinia

Creating Static SVGs from GeoJSON

Sustainable Hardware Choices

Education Needs Teachers, Not More Technology

CSS Masonry Layout Syntax

AI Environmental Impact Report

A Versatile Markdown Shortcode for Eleventy

I’ve Been Doing Blockquotes Wrong

Notes From Green IO Conference

Limitation Breeds Creativity: A Study in Composition with Custom Properties

Logical Properties in Size Queries

The Problem With Surveys (and Why You Should Take This One)

Styling Tables the Modern CSS Way

Everybody’s Free (to Write Websites)

Feedback

Modern CSS Layout is Awesome: Talking and Thinking About CSS Layout

Another Anchor Positioning Demo: Multiple Anchors

Progressively Enhanced Popover Toggletips

Perspective

Anchor Positioning and the Popover API for a JS-Free Site Menu

RSS is Good, Isn’t It?!

Manifesto for a Humane Web

Shades of Grey with color-mix()

The Perfect Site Doesn’t Exist

Time to Ditch Analytics? Tracking Scripts and Web Sustainability

Talking About Web Sustainability on ShopTalk Show

Creating Color Palettes with the CSS color-mix() Function

February 2024 Bookmarks

Design Patterns that Encourage Junk Data

How I Solved My Font Rendering Problem

New and Improved Green Web Hosting Directory from the Green Web Foundation

Eleventy Starter Project Updates

Wrapping Up 2023

Video: Building a Greener Web (Smashing Meets Goes Green)

Where Do We Go From Here?

Workshop Review: Data Visualisation Fundamentals with Andy Kirk

How Do You Vertically Centre an Element in CSS? (Even More) Easily!

Interview: Beyond the Spotlight

Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Streaming Digital Content

Reporting on Website Carbon Emissions

Testing the Performance of Social Media Embeds

Wrapping Up National Blog Posting Month 2023

Hide and Debug Empty Elements with CSS

Oh No, Overflow!

Kicking the Excessive JavaScript Habit

You Have Something to Say That’s Worth Hearing

Preventing Scroll “Bounce” with CSS

Why You Should Hold Onto Your Devices For Longer

What to Blog About When You Don’t Know What to Blog About

Choosing a Green Web Host

Scroll Timeline Parallax Effect

Reality Check: A Series for Building Real Layouts

A Fun CSS Text Effect

Drawing Raindrops with CSS Gradients and Masks

Thoughts on UX Engineering

Using Flow Diagrams to Manage State in Complex Applications

Getting Started with Container Queries

The Joy of Lists

Radial Gradients and CSS Trigonometric Functions

Better Vue Application State Management with Vuex Modules

Programming as a Craft

Stop Using AI-Generated Images

CSS Nesting is Here

NaN or Not a Number?

Handling Null, Undefined and Zero Values in JavaScript

(Don’t) Mind the Gap

Leaving Twitter Behind

Owning Your Web

Code Gardening

Messing About with CSS Gradients

Update on the COP28 Website

National Blog Posting Month

Finding Meaning in Our Work

Introduction to Web Sustainability

Styling External Links with Attribute Selectors

Greenwashing and the COP28 Website

Introducing the Web Sustainability Guidelines

Reactivity in Vanilla Javascript

Cool Tools

Creating custom easing effects in CSS animations using the linear() function

Video: Building a Greener Web

Scroll Progress Animations in CSS

Video: Modern CSS Layout is Awesome

Thoughts From CSS Day

Reducing Complexity in Front End Development

Carbon Capture: A New Way to Measure Your Website’s Carbon Emissions

Useful Resources for Improving Your Site’s Performance (and Reducing Carbon Emissions)

Exploring :has() Again

Creating VS Code Snippets to Speed Up Workflow

A Native “Visually Hidden” in CSS? Yes Please!

Setting Up a New(ish) MacBook

Resizing with CSS

Working with Colour Scales for Data Visualisation in D3

Testing Colour Accessibility with Dev Tools

Interop 2023

Scheduling Netlify Deployments with Github Actions

A Quick Website Redesign

A Useful VS Code Extension for Environment Switching

Disentangling Frameworks

2022 in Review

Correcting With Kindness

Logical Border Radius

Optimizing a Vue App

Find Me On Mastodon

Web Sustainability Resources

Handy Tools For Mocking API Requests

Sustainable Web Development Strategies Within an Organization

CSS Halftone Patterns

Web Sustainability and the Ethical Dilemma

Detecting CSS Selector Support

Creative CSS Layout (and the Flexible Web)

Creative List Styling

A Handy Use For Cascade Layers

Quick Tip: Negative Animation Delay

Tech Workers and Climate Action

Logical Properties for Useful Shorthands

Masonry? In CSS?!

Breaking Out of a Central Wrapper

CSS Day 2022

Writing Useful Alt Text

Quick Tip: You Might Not Need Calc()

My Browser Support Strategy

Animated Grid Tracks with :has()

Exciting Times for Browsers (and CSS)

Building an Interactive Sparkline Graph with D3

The Web Doesn’t Have Version Numbers

A Reason to Self-Host Fonts

New CSS Features In 2022

Are My Third Parties Green?

A Blog Post About Blogging

In Commission to No Emmissions: Videos from Toronto Web Performance Meetup

I Finally Installed an Ad Blocker

Aspect Ratio is Great

Reducing The Web’s Carbon Footprint: Optimizing Social Media Embeds

Not an NFT artist

Building a Scrollable and Draggable Timeline with GSAP

2021 in Review

:has() Has Landed in Safari

Building a Greener Web

Reduce Your Website’s Environmental Impact With a Carbon Budget

Don’t Forget the “lang” Attribute

A Guide To Modern CSS Colors With RGB, HSL, HWB, LAB And LCH

IT Career Energizer Podcast

Favourite Web Development Courses

Accessible Toggles

Respecting Users’ Motion Preferences

The State of CSS 2021

Evaluating Clever CSS Solutions

Creating 3D Characters in Three.js

Simplifying Form Styles With accent-color

Simpler Block Spacing in WordPress with :is() and :where()

Developer Decisions For Building Flexible Components

Learning in the Open

New Length Debugging Tool in Chrome Canary

Masking One Element With Another

Is it Time to Ditch the Design Grid?

Building A Dynamic Header With Intersection Observer

Inspecting Sizes

Detecting Hover-Capable Devices

Video: Dev Roulette Live

Trigonometry in CSS and JS: A Series

Creating Generative SVG Characters

Toggling CSS Custom Properties with Radio Buttons

Dynamic CSS Masks with Custom Properties and GSAP

Development Budgets

Paper Snowflakes: Combining Clipping and Masking in CSS

Quick Tip: Style Pseudo-elements with Javascript Using Custom Properties

Animating Underlines

Debugging Media Queries: A Dev Tools Wish List

Favourite Things 2: New CSS Features, JS Libraries and More

Finding an Element’s Nearest Relative Positioned Ancestor

My Typical Day

On a break

Goodbye, 2020

Video: Using Tailwind with Wordpress

A Utility Class for Covering Elements

Troubleshooting Caching

Color Theming with CSS Custom Properties and Tailwind

Launching the New and Improved CSS { In Real Life }

Tailwind Thoughts

Making Work Experience a Positive Experience

Quick Command Line Tip: Create Mutliple Files With the Same Extension

Learning About CSS 3D Transforms and Perspective

Why I Don’t Have Time For Your Coding Challenge

Favourite Things 1: GSAP ScrollTrigger, Eleventy, and more

Building the Zig-Zag Gradient Lab

Accessibly Hiding Focus Outlines

Drop-Shadow: The Underrated CSS Filter

From Gatsby to Eleventy: Choosing a Static Site Generator for a Personal Site

Irregular-shaped Links with Subgrid

Mentoring

CSS-only Slide-up Caption Hover Effect

All the CSS Colours

Exciting Things on the Horizon For CSS Layout

Video: 90 Seconds on CSS Custom Properties

Tips for Writing for the Web

Different Approaches to Responsive CSS Motion Path

Building an Interactive Timetable

Positioning Text Along a Path with CSS

In Search of Simplicity

Do We Need CSS4?

Quick and Easy Dark Mode with CSS Custom Properties

Optimising SVGs for the Web

Fun with CSS Motion Path

Imperfect

2019 in Review

7 Uses for CSS Custom Properties

Beautiful Scrolling Experiences – Without Libraries

Re-creating the ‘His Dark Materials’ Logo in CSS

A Layout Trick for Building a Contact List

Part 3: Building Our Sass Architecture

Part 2: Module Bundling with Parcel

Part 1: Building a Project Starter with NPM Scripts

State of the Art CSS

Building a Scrapbook Layout with CSS Grid

Thoughts on the State of the Web

Get ready for the CSS Grid Revolution

How to Accessibly Split Text

Variable Font Animation with CSS and Splitting JS

Heatwave: An Animated CSS Sun Illustration

Part 3: Auto-flow, Order and Item Placement

How to Enable Experimental Web Platform Features in Chrome and Firefox

Video: Building Complex Layouts at Future Sync 2019

Pixel Pioneers 2019 Roundup

Video: Super-powered Layouts at State of the Browser 2018

Top Tips for Hiring Diverse Teams

Subgrid is here

How Git Stash Can Help You Juggle Multiple Branches

Part 2: What the Fr(action)?

Part 1: Understanding Implicit Tracks

Controlling Leftover Grid Items with Pseudo-selectors

Amending Your Past Commits with Git

How to Create Better Themes with CSS Variables

Building a Dependency-free Site in 2019

How to Convince Your Team to Adopt CSS Grid

Becoming a Tech Speaker

To Grid or to Flex?

My CSS Grid Wishlist

A Year of Utility Classes

Animating CSS Grid

Solving a Tricky Layout Problem with CSS Grid

Wrapping Up 2018

Reversing an Easing Curve

Into the Matrix with SVG Filters

Mentoring Junior Developers

Negative Grid Lines

20 Inspiring Women in Tech

Relative Grid Items with CSS Variables

Notes from State of the Browser

Super-powered Grid Components with CSS Custom Properties

Experimental Layouts with CSS Shapes and Clip-path

Building a Progressive Web App with Gatsby

Speaking at Bristol JS on Super-powered Layouts

Progressive Web Apps: An Introduction

In Defence of Bad Code

Great Front End Writers to Follow

Practical Tips for Working with CSS Variables

Introduction to Gatsby

Aspect Ratio Cells with CSS Grid Layout

CSS Grid: More Flexibility with Minmax()

Using Pseudo-elements with CSS Grid

Super-powered layouts with CSS Variables + CSS Grid

How to be a Good Co-worker