Writing from the desk of Henry (From Online)

There’s a lot to like about Plex from a philosophical standpoint — it’s local-first software centered around sharing your favorite art with your friends.

There are about a thousand and one debates about the ecology of AI, the ethics of AI, the governance of AI.

The first thing I did last year was run | Henry From Online A tiny website by Henry (From Online) which I am publishing in February 2026 for your exclusive reading pleasure :) The first thing I did last year was run. 00:00:00:00 I found myself on the eve…

What I did Did not buy any new clothing, save for DIY band merch.

A Website To End All Websites | Henry From Online A website to destroy all websites.

There’s a growing attitude in the technology industry that LLM technology is, or will be, the next great innovation to our work.

Quick disclaimer before we start.

Anyone online has seen over the past years how the frequency of Palestinian accounts on Bluesky and other platforms has increased, two- and four-fold, folks asking for help and linking to GoFundMes.

I’ll be honest — I am ashamed of how long it took me to get here.

Quick heads up: Since writing this, I’ve found one or two fairly sizeable bugs in the Galleria plugin.

Whether it’s a framed image that was taken at a slight angle, or a product photo that just doesn’t quite match the rest in the grid, I’ve frequently had the need to adjust the perspective of an image in my design work.

Well it’s that time again, migrating for one reason or another listlessly between computers as priorities and jobs change.

Often in creative web projects, I find myself having to take a number, which exists in a specific range of numbers, and find the number that would be in the same position if the range were changed.

TL;DR One of my most-frequently searched dev tasks over the course of my career thus far has been the “how do I find what process is on a port” to “how do I kill a given process” wombo-combo — there’s always some memory-leaky service running that ctrl+c i…

Before I even get into the impetus for this blog post, if you came from a search engine and you just want the code, here’s a demo.

This Is That Dreaded Blog Post That Was Foretold Every blog poster fears that one day this post will be upon them — that painfully self-important and -unaware “Why I’m Leaving ${city}” post.

I recently saw an online acquaintance of mine share a Controversial Opinion™ that I found challenging: If you do not have formal training in design you are not a designer.

I got an email recently from a kind online friend who said they thought my work was swell, and that they’d like to ask about my process or what makes a good website.

A lot of the SVG filter primitive content out there is some really rad, deep-dive type content (I’ll link some of these at the end!)

Contentful is an immensely well-featured headless content management system, but the density of its featureset can be daunting to integrate with static site generators.

Okay quick disclaimer before I kick this off — this post does not cover how to use interactive Vue components in an Eleventy project.

I have this weird relationship with Incredible Amounts Of Grief where, like, I’ve literally been there — I know there’s nothing to say, and nothing will heal but time.

I recently* built this really cool feature for my personal website that allows me to use Netlify Functions to show my most-recently-listened-to tracks from Spotify.

This morning, the atomic design GOAT Brad Frost Tweeted a question about variable naming for colors: Here’s a fun one: what variable name would you define for `rgba(0,0,0,0.9);`?

Inspiration and research assistance for this article was extremely graciously provided by David Darnes, Robb Owen, and Andy Bell.

Impetus I’ve been working on a project lately that requires the loading of many, many webfonts.

Introduction This time last year, I Tweeted out some goals for the New Year. 🗣️ Speak about CSS at a conference or school 🎓 Take a class a month 📚 Read a book a month ✈️ Go back to SF, go back to Europe 💵 Save enough to buy a house Bring it tf on, 2019.

Before you get started, fair warning that this post has “takes”, some of which could be considered “hot”.

So, I was looking for a fun example of UI interactivity to prototype on Codepen, and I stumbled upon this really cool shot that Alexsander Barhon shared.

This is a non-exhaustive list of the tools I use in my day-to-day operation for design, development, and life as a human.

This article was originally posted on the Universal Mind blog in June 2016.

This article was originally written for the Fusionbox blog in January 2015.