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AI Environmental Impact Report
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Logical Properties in Size Queries
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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
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Time to Ditch Analytics? Tracking Scripts and Web Sustainability
Talking About Web Sustainability on ShopTalk Show
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February 2024 Bookmarks
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Eleventy Starter Project Updates
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Streaming Digital Content
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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
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Reducing The Web’s Carbon Footprint: Optimizing Social Media Embeds
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Building a Scrollable and Draggable Timeline with GSAP
2021 in Review
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Building a Greener Web
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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
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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
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Favourite Things 2: New CSS Features, JS Libraries and More
Finding an Element’s Nearest Relative Positioned Ancestor
My Typical Day
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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
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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
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Mentoring
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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
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Quick and Easy Dark Mode with CSS Custom Properties
Optimising SVGs for the Web
Fun with CSS Motion Path
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7 Uses for CSS Custom Properties
Beautiful Scrolling Experiences – Without Libraries
Re-creating the ‘His Dark Materials’ Logo in CSS
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State of the Art CSS
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Thoughts on the State of the Web
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How to Accessibly Split Text
Variable Font Animation with CSS and Splitting JS
Heatwave: An Animated CSS Sun Illustration
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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
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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?
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A Year of Utility Classes
Animating CSS Grid
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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
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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
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