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Solving Life’s Problems with CSS
28.5.2018
Or: When all you have is a CSS hammer, the world looks like a CSS nail.
Whenever I hear a perfectly nice comment like, "Yeah, representing the tech field!" in response to my pure-CSS art, I get a sharp feeling of panic.
Like many people who work on UIs for a living, I have difficulty applying...
Five of My Favorite Features of Jetpack
15.5.2018
Jetpack is an official WordPress plugin directly from Automattic. It's an interesting plugin in that it doesn't just do *one thing* — it does a whole slew of things that enhance what your WordPress site can do. *Any* WordPress site, that is, and often with extremely little effort. Those easy...
Conditional Routing with React Router v4
8.5.2018
When building React applications, one thing developers don’t like to utilize is routing in React - usually because of the assumed learning curve involved. In this article, we are going to debunk th
Decorating lines of text with box-decoration-break
8.5.2018
An institution’s motto, an artist’s intro, a company’s tagline, a community’s principle, a service’s greeting… all of them have one thing in common: they’re one brief paragraph displayed on a website’s home page — or at least the about page!
It’s rare that just one word or one line of text...
Inspecting Animations in DevTools
4.5.2018
I stumbled upon the Animation panel in Chrome’s DevTools the other day and almost jumped out of my seat with pure joy. Not only was I completely unaware that such a thing exists, but it was better than what I could’ve hoped: it lets you control and manipulate CSS animations and visualize...
Managing Heading Levels In Design Systems
3.5.2018
Heydon Pickering looks into how to give a React component a certain heading (like <h1>, <h2>, etc.) depending on its context and thereby ensure that the DOM is still perfectly accessible for screen readers. Why is using the right heading important though? Heydon writes in...
CSS Blocks
27.4.2018
A new entry into the CSS-in-JS landscape! Looks like the idea is that you write an individual CSS file for every component. You have to work in components, that's how the whole thing works. In the same isle as styled-components, css-modules, and glamorous.
Then you write :scope { } which is...
The Dark Side of Promises
9.4.2018
Since the release of es6 many new features have found their way into NodeJS, but non had quite the same impact as promises. Promises have been developed for the browser before es6 was even a thing. There were several implementations that have been used like jQuery’s deferred object before...
The Existential Terror of Battle Royale
5.11.2017
It's been a while since I wrote a blog post, I guess in general, but also a blog post about video games. Video games are probably the single thing most attributable to my career as a programmer, and everything else I've done professionally after that. I still feel video games