Reading Time: 14 minutesEvery once in a while someone asks specifically about how to manage CSS performance for a website. What if there’s a lot of components? What if there’s a lot of animations? What if there’s a lot of just CSS?

Reading Time: 11 minutesOne of the first deliveries of the National Design Studio is AmericaByDesign — which is deplorable for all.

Reading Time: 2 minutesSometimes I get stuck with a problem that I don’t really like: When I can’t execute my little bit of code until another bit of code executes, and there’s no events coming from that other code to tell me that it’s⠀run. When I find myself in the situation where I need something off of an

Reading Time: 6 minutesThere’s a newish CSS feature called hyphens that specifies how you want words to be hyphenated when the text wraps.

But if you use it, you’re going to need to make sure you’re also correctly identifying the language. And to understand why that matters, we need to talk about words and syllables.

Reading Time: 14 minutesHygenic code is commented code. But often, it can be difficult to understand where, when, or even how to comment your front end code. So I’d like to share a small guide for writing comments in your front-end that makes the developer experience better for everyone.

Reading Time: 3 minutesSo the :nth-child structural pseudo class is mighty handy already since it lets you select based on mathematical rules. But to my surprise, it got handier and no one told me. Which makes me think no one told you, either: :nth-child() can do filtering now!

Reading Time: 5 minutesI’ve complained in the past about how I don’t like application architectures being led by the front-end team. Rather than complain some more, I want to talk about how front-end developers could meaningfully participate in the architecture of a project — particularly the CMS part. I want to talk about how front-end developers can be

Reading Time: 5 minutesSometimes we don’t want to use a full-blown SPA. And sometimes when we don’t want that full-blown SPA, we do want some SPA-like features likes maybe state management attached to some small element of the User Interface. I ran into this kind of situation at Red Hat last year, and I want to share how

Reading Time: 24 minutesThis is a blog post I’ve been meaning to write for like two years but haven’t, because it is a complex topic that’s a kind of modern-day Ouroboros where you don’t really know where to start but at no point do you think, “Everything’s fine; nothing could go wrong.” This is about how a feature

Reading Time: 4 minutesPeople are sometimes unprepared to learn that I have a deep (read: unhealthy) interest in languages. Up to and including, “how do you even figure out what makes a language so languagey?” (sidenote: apologies to the mother of the 8 year old a few days ago who wanted to know why bears are called bears)