One thing I get real excited about every year is Colly’s music roundup where he collects his favorite albums and presents them as a gift for all to enjoy. I tend to keep this page in a tab for a month or so, sifting through it slowly one by one and treating it as my guide for finding new stuff I missed throughout...

I’m real excited about text-box, a new CSS property that helps with text alignment and layout. You might remember whispers about leading-trim from a few years back and this new syntax has replaced all that. I first spotted this bad boy on the Webkit blog the other day: h2 { text-box: trim-start cap;} This will trim...

I’m not a programmer. Plug me into a terminal and likely the only thing that you could wrench out of me is hello world. I can hack things together in the browser and I can certainly mask my contempt for Typescript for a day or two but there’s a hard limit for sure. Maybe I’m too scattershot for serious programming,...

Alex Russell: Frameworkism is now the dominant creed of frontend discourse. It insists that all user problems will be solved if teams just framework hard enough. This is non-sequitur, if not entirely backwards. In practice, the only thing that makes web experiences good is caring about the user experience —...

I wouldn’t have become a designer if it wasn’t for CSS3 and HTML5. They came together at just the right time and captured everything that was so exciting about publishing and typography on the web. And I was drawn towards the web because of this groundswell of excitement. Now that I think of it, there’s a few...

This is the longest streak of not-writing in years. It’s impossible to know what to say, impossible to describe the disappointment and frustration over the last few weeks. Right now it feels best to be quiet so I’ve thrown myself into my work: designing things, refactoring icons, trying to move the needle on some...

Erin Kissane has started a new research studio with the most punk URL I’ve ever seen: wrecka.ge. Get out of here! That’s fantastic. But also everything about this project is, as Erin writes: We need new networks that genuinely work better, not only for indie-web people or tech people or other outliers, but for all...

Great piece by Gareth Edwards about the soon-to-be defunct .io domain and a wild story about colonialism, borders, and the internet: In 2006, Montenegro declared independence from Serbia. With the digital revolution now firmly underway, the IANA was determined not to let chaos reign once again. It created two new...

I’m in New York this week for a work thing, stationed close to the Empire State building. The last time I was here it was almost a decade ago and...I didn’t have a great time. Actually, I haven't liked New York the three times I’ve been here. I’m sorry! I’m absolutely not walking over here! Despite how excited I was...

Mandy Brown wrote this fantastic piece about building a space on the web for yourself: A website is, among other things, a container. The shape of that container both constrains and makes possible what goes within it. This is, I think, one of the primary justifications for having your own website. Not just so you...

Every problem at every company I’ve ever worked at eventually boils down to “please dear god can we just hire people who know how to write HTML and CSS.” This UX is awful? That UI looks old? Accessibility busted? Performance bad? Design team can’t ship stuff? Customers annoyed by tons of bugs? Everything takes too...

Matt Webb just added a new feature to his website called cursor party: If you’ve visited my actual website, rather than reading by email or whatever, such as reading this very post, you may notice somebody else’s cursor pass by as you’re reading. [...] Mostly my blog is pretty quiet. I think of it like one of those...