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Getting the index in a for...of loop
I love for...of loops! I find them nice and simple. They’re more clear than an old-school forloop, and in my opinion easier to read than an…
Stop animating everything!
Earlier this week, a friend shared a “really cool website” from a design and dev agency (I’m not going to link to it, don’t ask). Nearly every single element on…
A revisit of the Every Layout sidebar with :has() and selector performance
Every Layout’s Sidebar exemplifies a quantum CSS layout, perhaps better than any other layout we offer. It is neither a two column layout, comprising elements…
Croissant! Building a No-Framework Web App
Friday 11 Jul 2025 If you subscribe to my notes you’ll know I’ve gone a little crazy building an RSS aggregator web app over the past week. My side project…
Controlling spacing in modern CSS layouts
Over the last week, we’ve looked at how Kelp UI implements four different layouts with modern CSS: the container layout pattern, the cluster layout, the split…
My favourite 3 lines of CSS
In Every Layout, we wrote about The Stack. It’s a marriage of Heydon’s Lobotomised Owl selector and my method of managing Flow and Rhythm with CSS Custom…
Easy dark mode for your website or web app
Last week, I added a dark mode to Go Make Things, the Vanilla JS Toolkit, and the Lean Web. Today, I want to show you how I did it. How dark mode works Every…
SVG Optimization and Accessibility Basics
Wednesday 25 Jun 2025 SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) are now commonplace on the web. When I wrote Resolution Independence With SVG for Smashing Magazine in 2012…
Modular CSS Redux
They say the best way to get an answer to a technical question is to post the wrong answer on the internet! Yesterday, I wrote about modular CSS architecture…
Building Search Index with Eleventy
One of the features that I’m quite happy about on my new website is the built-in search functionality and how the search index gets built for it. You can test…