Nathan Law Kwun Chung wrote this piece about the situation in Hong Kong: A broad range of freedoms, relating to assembly, association, speech, the press, academic research, the electoral process and more, is increasingly under threat in Hong Kong. The headquarters of the most vocal pro-democracy newspaper in town...

Ethan Marcotte’s latest talk is so great and I think he captures the feeling of the whole industy/craft right now. But the part that really stuck out to me is where Ethan argued that: Creating modular components isn’t the primary goal or even the primary benefit of creating a design system. And what’s more, a focus...

In the Bay Area there’s this very clear distinction folks make between “websites” and “web apps.” Somehow, the thinking goes, if we make a web app then we don’t need to care about accessibility or responsive design. We don’t need to care about all the work that goes into making a typical website great; semantic...

I helped my quarantine pal move out of her apartment today. She’s leaving San Francisco and it was tough yada yada shut up. But as we're packing up her place, I start to make fun of her a bit. “Everything is a story, huh,” I said, pointing to a pencil that says ‘Huh’ on it. “What's the story behind this?” I point to...

Reagan Ray made a lovely collection of Jazz-inspired hand-lettering that’s very much worth a look. There’s so many interesting styles on display here!

Newsletters often feel like having to keep up with extracurricular homework. And so a word of advice for publishing a newsletter, blog post, novel, or literally anything: keep it short and keep it sweet. Writing is easy, editing is hard. And it’s important to note that a piece of writing is not somehow more...

Blot makes me angry. It’s so painfully simple to make tiny websites, and the video there shows just how straightforward writing on the web can be instead of the rather blotted and clunky system that I’m working with today. I’m using Netlify CMS and it feels too fragile. I’m not sure if it was built for writers, it...

Robin Marty was interviewed by Bridget Read about the potential of losing Roe v. Wade and how we can fight it. But this part here is what caught my attention: Reproductive rights are never going to be a priority. Never look at federal elections as something that’s going to save us. [...] It’s all about local power....

We were making jokes in my kitchen when we heard the news. We saw the news roll in, gasped as we saw the back and forth on Twitter. We watched the outpouring of love begin, as Vote Save America raised more than $10 million in just a few hours, and as everyone panicked trying understand the scope of this change and...

When it comes to design and development I always try to be the hero. I rush into the fray, don’t really understand the problem clearly, and end up trying to reinvent the wheel. But all this leads to is frustration and deadends. When doing front-end stuff this happens when I make giant CSS refactors, where I hope to...

Here’s a weird bug. The other day I shipped a toggle that sits in the top right of the nav that lets you change the theme of this here website. I want to eventually copy what Jeremy’s built on his website where there’s all sorts of buck wild designs you can choose from. But! This little toggler chap today is...

For the last couple of months I’ve wondered why there isn’t a CSS-Tricks for politics. Why does every conversation about this subject stress me the fuck out and why can’t I find a place that is hopeful and consistent but isn’t just offering half-baked rants or click-bait trash? Is there a place to learn about...