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If you asked people to name the most impactful technology of the last 100 years, some might say the lightbulb, others the transistor, and others still the microprocessor.

My recent post on removing classes from my personal site was unusual in a few ways; I got a surprising number of kind emails about it, and on the flip side, it broke containment and ended up on Hacker News.

In the first Taming Tailwind post, I documented how I’d inherited a Tailwind project that I eventually switched from a utility-first approach to a hybrid modern CSS + Tailwind architecture.

In my recent post, “There’s no such thing as a CSS reset”, I wrote this: Think of elements like components, but ones that come packed in the browser.

About 6 months ago – right around the time that Amazon made it crystal clear that you do not own ebooks you purchase in any meaningful sense – I bought a Kobo Libra Color.

CSS resets are a technique nearly as long lived as the modern CSS era itself, stretching all the way from the CSS Zen Garden days to inclusion in mass-market current-day tools like Tailwind.

While putting the finishing touches on the latest release of Grease, the words “5 years ago” caught my eye in GitHub. 5 years?

The older I get, the more I find myself drawn towards seasonality and cyclicality.

I haven’t touched the design of this website in a few years, and I’ve mostly been content to let it collect a patina of dust and cobwebs.

My journey with 11ty’s global data went something like this: “This is where my little text strings go” “Neat, I can use javascript to set dynamic values” “Literally any service with an API is my CMS now” That last phase is key to understanding how our rec…

Our house has one of those old, giant whole-house fans that looks like it was ripped out of an airplane and grafted into the ceiling.

I’m a fan of side-quests; professional tangents that fuel your interest, sharpen your craft, and pay long-term dividends towards whatever your main quest is.

The Vision Pro has arrived.

Tech companies are scrambling to stake their claims in the AI gold rush, and — on top of the legal and ethical woes they’re leaving in their wake — a lot of them are shipping surprisingly bad product.

Something that’s been on my mind lately is the value of not encapsulating html, css, and javascript into singular components.

I wasn’t a Tailwind fan.

A great thing about the multi-page view transitions spec (read this post from Dave Rupert for an intro) is that it’s pure progressive enhancement.

Software — and software companies — break down into two distinct modes: Build mode - you’re in blue sky territory, creating something where nothing existing before, trying to find product market fit.

Designers and product-folk like to think of ourselves as craftspeople.

For a long time I didn’t know what to do with web components.

“Consistency” is a word you hear a lot in tech.

The thing about complexity is that the cost rarely seems obvious upfront.

Personal sites are great venues for exploring those half-baked and high-contrast ideas that are illuminating, but impractical for commercial work.

I’ve had my eye on Astro, so I thought I’d take it for a spin by re-building this here website.

The pendulum swinging back from “recreate everything in [insert SPA framework]” to “multi-page apps are pretty good, actually” is a timely reminder that focusing your energy on mastering the fundamentals is usually a smart bet.

Across the clients and companies I’ve worked with, more often than not I’ve had to sell the value of hard to measure stuff like branding and designing for emotion.

A generalist designer, axiomatically, is someone who doesn’t specialize in any particular area of design.

You hear a ton of different advice on the right and wrong way to go about designing an app or website.

For many many many people, the term “marketing” is interchangeable with words like “spin,” “flim-flam,” “malarkey,” and of course, “bullshit.”

Not too long ago Jason Fried wrote about his experience shopping at Apple Stores, in which he described the common occurrence of walking into a store and being immediately set upon by a too helpful Apple rep (the “bouncer”).

I was Twittering away the other day, and Prettier came across my feed.

My latest obsession is a very pretty, very shiny Pro-Ject Audio Carbon Debut DC turntable.