CSS Wizardry

Using static analysis to learn where to improve your CSS

Forcing immutability in our utility classes by using !

A look at the performance difference between Sass’ mixins and @extend

A look at managing typography more practically on larger sites and apps

An exciting new partnership to offer public workshops

Adding further meaning and information to the BEM naming convention

My own personal tips and tricks for surviving lots of air travel.

How to style specific components when they’re in specific locations

A brief note on some of the subtleties and oddities when chaining classes with themselves.

A look at how CSS has always contained logic and conditions

Treating CSS rules as being immutable

Looking at the dangers of abstracting CSS too far

Employing a suite of namespaces to make your UI code more readable and transparent

When is it suitable to use Sass @extend or mixin features, and why?

The Specificity Graph as a model for visualising specificity issues in your code

A look back on my first year of self employment

Announcing the next iteration and business model of my popular CSS Guidelines document

A collation of the advice I regularly give out to new and emerging web developers

A way to say thank you to the individuals responsible for their companies hiring me

A couple of quick hacks and tricks for manipulating specificity

An introduction to the whats and the whys of using Vim as your text editor

An interesting way of visually and ‘physically’ grouping multiple class attributes

How I manage development projects using Trello

A way of giving complex, OOCSS-built components more meaningful names

A little trick to stop mentioning Twitter users when you write @import, etc.

A simple trick for controlling the reach of Sass’ `@extend`

My first workshop in association with the fine folk at Event Handler

My section in the latest Smashing Book

A brief overview of my tools and software I use for work

Some thoughts on our use of the word ‘craft’ to describe our work

Laying out data tables in a consistent way, finally!

Announcing my first workshop in association with Smashing Workshops

A new service I’m offering: remote code reviews

Announcing my first workshop in association with Make Do

A personal post about helpfulness and politeness.

I’m looking for amazing people to work with on great products.

Everything you do, do it for a reason, and make that reason a good one.

Amazing events with 25% off!

I have a couple of days off in Leeds around two conferences; let’s meet…?

DRYing out our CSS at its most basic level

Spoofing the uniqueness of IDs by putting hashes in your classes

Applying the concept of scope to our CSS

A new OOCSS abstraction

The full version of the .net magazine shame.css interview

Keeping track of your hacks

I’ve been nominated for a .net award!

A responsive, fluid, nestable, Sass-based grid system.

A look at building a practical, robust, flexible, usable responsive grid system.

About learning to look at things objectively and apply your own context

A primer on the oft-confusing BEM notation for CSS