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! ✌️ When I fall in love with a piece of art or entertainment, I fall hard. I might recommend it to friends, look up behind-the-scenes details,...

I’ll cut to the chase: Our calendar is light, and we need more projects. Especially projects with a UX design, UI design or hybrid creative/development focus. Small projects? No prob, we’ve got individual high-velocity contributors to spare, ready to slot in at any project stage. Large projects? Bring it on: Our...

I was delighted to present this talk at the final (for now) episode of The Eleventy Meetup: Eleventy Build Awesome is great for rapid prototyping! Tyler shows off a few of his favorite shortcodes, filters and other techniques to quickly populate interactive mockups and wireframes with “dummy” or FPO (for placement...

I’ve never been much of a foodie. Between being a picky eater as a kid and some gastro­intestinal issues as an adult, I’d describe my relationship to food as mildly adversarial. Consequently, I was never interested in cooking. That changed going into 2025, when I resolved to cook more at home. I wanted to learn a...

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! ✌️I used a Logitech K800 “Wireless Illuminated” keyboard for more than a decade. Its keys were soft and comfy. The wireless part made it easy...

My buddy Christopher Kirk-Nielsen wanted to mimic the look of a <legend> inside a <fieldset> for a section of a blog post: Specifically, the way the <legend> element magically overlays and partially clips the border of the containing <fieldset>. Chris posed this challenge on Mastodon, where I suggested a solution he...

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! ✌️As much as I enjoy books, comics, music and animation, I find it easiest to write about video games. So instead of an all-encompassing media...

On the web, it’s easy to take line breaks for granted. We get them for free between our headings, paragraphs, list items, <div> elements and more. We display them as-is in our code snippets thanks to <pre>. And most magically of all, our browsers insert breaks automatically where lines of text (or other text-like...

It was July of 2009. Twitter wasn’t a cesspool yet, and I’d released two silly mashups using its API: Portwiture, which built a Flickr mood board from keywords you’d tweeted, and TweetPlus, which discovered where your friends were blogging. On a random Wednesday morning, I welcomed this email to my inbox: Tyler: I...