The Firefox team wants help ranking Interop 2027 proposals. There are some great features in there. For whatever reason, I cut myself off at eight: border-shape so I can design some wild new containers. Gap decorations to simplify dividers in my grids. Customizable <select> because the demos I’ve seen are really...

Hello, RSS reader! 👋 This post has some bespoke art direction you’ll only see if you view it directly. No hard feelings if you prefer to read here, I just wanted you to know! ✌️ It’s 2026, and I’m writing this post on a MacBook Air I bought in 2011. Why? It still works, for one. No dead pixels, no dents or dings in...

Here are five personally meaningful and impactful code samples I wrote or encountered from grade school into college, each thanks to an involved teacher, parent or peer. Tip of the hat I was inspired to write this after enjoying Ten Lines Of Code That Changed My World by Roel Nieskens, who encouraged me to share my...

I added a “copy to clipboard” button to my site’s code blocks back in February. It works as you’d expect, except for one detail. Instead of the usual icon or color change to communicate when the copy succeeds, it mimics those tear-off tabs you sometimes see on paper flyers stuck to telephone poles and bulletin...

Hello, RSS reader! 👋 This post has some bespoke art direction you’ll only see if you view it directly. No hard feelings if you prefer to read here, I just wanted you to know! ✌️Historically, applying an outer stroke to text via CSS has been tricky. All major browsers have long supported these (stubbornly...

Hello, RSS reader! 👋 This post has some bespoke art direction you’ll only see if you view it directly. No hard feelings if you prefer to read here, I just wanted you to know! ✌️In the mid-1990s, our elementary school class took on a big, multi-week project: The Mini City! For a portion of each school day, we acted...

While part of an agency, you’re always hoping to land that dream client: An organization aligned with your own interests and values, with stakeholders who support honest and open collaboration, engaged in challenging and inspiring work. When the The Type Founders worked with Cloud Four last year, it quickly became...

It’s been 13 years, 2 months and 12 days since I joined Cloud Four. But today’s my last as its Creative Director and a full-time team member: I’ve decided it’s time for something new. Words can’t adequately express how grateful I am to have worked with such an amazing team (teams plural counting all our esteemed...

Hello, RSS reader! 👋 This post has some bespoke art direction you’ll only see if you view it directly. No hard feelings if you prefer to read here, I just wanted you to know! ✌️It seems Dark Horse Comics will close their “Things From Another World” retail stores by the end of June. For me, the Beaverton location is...

In the spirit of seasonal home organizing, here are several dependency updates I’ve made to this site since my last refactor follow-up (most quite recently). Fonts After years of embedding my heading fonts via Adobe, I finally started licensing Freight Sans for self-hosting. I subset the fonts with Glyphhanger to...

Hello, RSS reader! 👋 This post has some bespoke art direction you’ll only see if you view it directly. No hard feelings if you prefer to read here, I just wanted you to know! ✌️ Superhero fans have debated for decades which character has the most compelling cast of antagonists. Batman? Spider-Man? But in terms of...

Since refactoring my site back in 2023, authoring posts is pretty simple. But to make it even easier, I wrote a little helper script. When I run node tools/new from my project directory, the script… Greets me with some friendly kaomoji Asks for the post title Generates a URL/filename slug from said title, which I...