Writing Smarter CSS
Posted on: 14 January 2021
Authoring more robust CSS with smart selectors
A collection of my adventures through the worlds of art and technology. Expect a glimpse into my decision making, cool things I've learned, and ideas as they relate to design and the web.
Posted on: 14 January 2021
Authoring more robust CSS with smart selectors
Posted on: 2 December 2020
Plausible is a fantastic alternative to existing JS based analytics solutions. Inexpensive, lightning fast, and build around privacy.
Posted on: 20 August 2020
There are a handful of ways we can use what we learned about modular scales when creating the typographical system of our website, from simple single scale systems to fully fluid typography. This article will take a look at each style and implementation, but all of these systems aim to address the question of how to handle text on both small and large screens.
Posted on: 13 July 2020
Vertical rhythm is a concept in typography that aims to keep vertical spaces between elements consistent with each other. This creates repeatable patterns that readers subconsciously understand and use to read faster and more accurately.
Posted on: 30 June 2020
In any form of design, one uses a series of measures to plan and layout the product. Measurements create precision, consistency, and promote trustworthiness. In print, common measurements are inches, centimeters, points, and picas. In the world of digital and web design we use pixels and more relative measurements such as percentages.
Posted on: 23 January 2020
Back in October, Marvin Danig made a fantastic blog post on the state of responsive web design and the future of CSS frameworks. I wanted to continue some of his points and see how a responsive first grid system might look.
Posted on: 6 December 2019
While researching best practices of CSS organization this past year for a huge UI project at work, I ran across several ideas and strategies to solve this problem. My goal here is to digest these ideas and formulate a more comprehensive approach to organizing CSS.
Posted on: 2 November 2019
One of the really cool plugins I found for VS Code is this tool called Comment Anchors. It’s a way of adding more visible, meaningful comments to your code. I’m a really big fan of writing documentation in the code itself, so its nice to have a way to highlight the most important notes.