What’s the smallest amount of CSS that you can write to make HTML look halfway decent? I took a crack at that today after I removed all the styles from my website and went back to Eleventy. Here’s what I’ve got so far. First up you gotta have those responsive images... img { max-width: 100%;} And secondly... html {...

What the who the what? I clearly have not been paying enough attention to Framer because they just released something called “Framer Sites” which looks impressive to say the least: but the TL;DR is that you can now use Framer as a full blown Content Management System. What! That’s amazing. Also, side note, but...

I just started an enormous project at work. It is blisteringly, gob-smackingly large. The biggest project I’ve ever worked on by far, and just the sort of thing not to be measured in sprints or seasons but whole dang years. And yes, despite my overwhelming charisma and my handsome dashing-ness etc. etc., of course...

Choosing a font is always a problem of size. Sure, you want to pick a serif or a fancy geometric sans—the style is important—but what’s the size of the text? There’s an enormous difference between 14px and 200px and likewise you can’t pick a typeface for a billboard and a tiny book and expect them to both look just...

There’s a famous blogger who lives near me. We don’t know each other, I’m as far off their radar as could possibly be. But it reminds of what San Francisco felt like when I first moved here six years ago; less a city full of anonymous strangers and more like the timeline come to life. You’d see your heroes in the...

The most upsetting thing about Elden Ring is not the difficulty, it’s the sheer imagination of the world building. A lot of games are like here’s the snow zone, here’s the forest zone, here’s the desert zone. They’re really not much more than aesthetic changes, a touch of paint really. But Elden Ring says no....

Today I stumbled upon Typeface 3, a great mac app that lets you organize all your fonts and test em out before you use em. It’s part font library and part design tool, where you can quickly see which fonts have which features and then mess around with them a bit before jumping into your design tool of choice. It’s...

So I love CSS scroll-snap. I think it’s really, truly amazing. Sure, yes, it lets you make carousels that aren’t janky JavaScript nightmares—but I think they’re more than that because now we can make webpages feel more like, well, Powerpoint. And that’s an extremely exciting thing for writers! You can make websites...

Jeremy doesn’t trust third-party code, but... I’m much more trusting of native browser features—HTML elements, CSS features, and JavaScript APIs. They’re not always perfect, but a lot of thought goes into their development. By the time they land in browsers, a whole lot of smart people have kicked the tyres and...

Almost every life-changing event for me started as an email, so email is way more important than I give it credit for. I should take better care of them, and I’ve written before about how I need to send more nice emails to folks to say thanks and/or hi. But: if someone’s a jerk, or they write to me as if I owe them...

My parents and I are stood in a graveyard, looking up at a church in the perfect center of a quiant British countryside town. Everything around us is older than America; every brick and cobblestone path, every hedge and waist-high wall. And the lettering! (Each of the graves nearby are lettered by an expert hand.)...

As I was reading this post from Jim about his setup I got wildly, incomprehensibly jealous; he writes about having a folder on his desktop that he can just throw stuff into and it publishes to a website. This, to me, is the absolute dream. The ultimate writing setup. Last week I was then determined to fix mine. I...