Josh Collinsworth

Tupo is my first new game in four years.

There's a lively debate going on over whether theme toggles should have two options (light/dark) or three, with an added "system" option.

It's worth asking whether LLMs are actually making us more productive at all—and if so, what we might be sacrificing in return.

Yesterday, even though my son is barely seven years old, toxic masculinity permeated his life and, perhaps permanently and irreparably, stole a small piece of his joy.

My Nüborn Baby arrived in October, and now that I've had a few months to get used to it, I thought I'd write up a review, in case you were thinking of getting one for yourself.

A look back on 2025, and all the weird, wonderful things that happened in my year.

I think I have an idea why we're so extremely divided on AI: it's because we have an intuitive sense of who it stands to benefit, and who stands to pay the costs.

Some thoughts on attempts to create gold out of nothing, and how generative AI, in many ways, mirrors that doomed pursuit

Is a person who prompts an LLM to generate a website a web developer?

One of life's greatest simple pleasures is creating something just for yourself.

A tribute to the member of our family we lost this weekend.

A running list of uncommon, strange, and/or archaic words embedded in common idioms, to help you type them correctly next time you use them.

Things I watched, read, played, got into, enjoyed, or did and would do again, in 2024.

Life in America has long felt like a game played between adults and children; a game where one side knows the rules and is dedicated to keeping them, and the other is merely making up ad-hoc rules from moment to moment, for no reason but to help them win.

I feel it's important to issue a critical reading of Automattic's post, as it doesn't seem to offer much of a serious or objective examination of the issues at hand.

I believe Matt Mullenweg's abuses of his unilateral, unchecked powers prove that it is in the best interest of the entire WordPress community that he be removed from power immediately.

A collection of things I've learned over my decade in the industry, on how and where to look for jobs, applying, interviewing, talking about yourself and your work, and all those other fun things.

A personal (read: meandering) post inspired by the realization that I first began to learn HTML and CSS exactly ten years ago, reflecting on the lucky turning points that brought me to where I am today.

An update on my previous first impressions post, covering how it's been using the MoErgo Glove80 every day for the past six months, how it's affected my RSI, and whether I'd recommend it (short answer: yes).

I keep noticing those of us in the frontend field being treated much the same as nurses, paralegals, and executive assistants.

Why I worry about the effect GitHub Copilot is having and will continue to have on the accessibility of the web at scale.

Things I watched, read, played, got into, enjoyed, or did and would do again, in 2023.

How does the Glove80 stack up against similar keyboards like the Moonlander and Ergodox?

Indeed, there's plenty to go around, thanks largely to all of you.

It's popular to say we can’t agree on Tailwind, but I posit we actually already do.

If you don't often look beyond established comfortable defaults, you might be surprised to learn just how far the world of frontend has moved away from React, and how big that gap continues to grow.

After a year or so of using Raycast, I'm switching back to Alfred.

Transitions, easing, and routing are all baked into SvelteKit.

Creating high-quality, polished web animations is both a science and an art.

The easing curve can make or break any animation on the web.

My thoughts, experience, and advice after using the Moonlander as my main keyboard for both personal and work projects for a full month

Many developers seem to believe there's no difference between px and other CSS units.

I'm 42 years old today.

SvelteKit introduced breaking changes to its routing and data loading in August 2022.

The only thing React is better at than other front-end frameworks is being popular.

Updating Quina to version 2.0 filled my head with new ideas that I just couldn't walk away from.

Toggle buttons might be the biggest missing native HTML element.

Debugging iOS Safari is a challenge (and possibly expensive) when you don't have access to an iPhone.

How to use CSS grid to make a responsive, adaptable bar chart with no math or external library required!

Learn the fundamentals of SvelteKit by building a statically generated blog from scratch, with Markdown support, Sass, an API, and an RSS feed.

The web world is full of tradeoffs.

I've been a fan of Svelte for years, but never had the opportunity to use it on a serious project before.

Svelte is a new style of framework for building sites and apps.

WordPress was potentially the most impactful and empowering technology I've yet encountered.

The story of building Quina, a word game Progressive Web App built with Nuxt, and launched on the Google Play Store.

Block Lab is a WordPress plugin that simplifies the process of creating custom blocks to use in the block editor, AKA Gutenberg, the new content editor in WordPress 5.0.

A lengthy write-up diving into what headless means, its advantages and disadvantages, some of the techniques and gotchas involved, and, finally, the new design of this site specifically.

…Lately, I’ve been wondering whether I can actually continue supporting Instagram and the company behind it, however passively or at whatever seemingly insignificant scale.

Enjoy all the convenience of easy local WordPress development with Local, plus build tools with CodeKit, without any of the tricky command line setup.

Working with arrays of objects in JavaScript can be difficult.