Andy Luhrs - Posts & Links

Works on My Machine -

CSS Carousels -

15 rules for blogging, and my current streak -

Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders -

The Best Programmers I Know -

All the data can be yours - I’ve built my fair share of scrapers, and this is a good set of things to try before resorting to web scraping.

Everything I've learned so far about running local LLMs - As my friends and family’s “what is AI?”

Designing DX - Having spent most (all I guess) of my career working on DevEx, a ton of great insight from Chris here.

Creating a LLM-as-a-Judge That Drives Business Results - A more recent post about LLM evaluation, and a bit deeper into using experts to support development.

🔍 Going through the “State of CSS” results… - Always love good analysis of “state of…” surveys.

Building an album releases calendar subscription - I was just about to look up how to build out my own calendar host.

A Guide to Web Curation - Good advice to follow when making a page like this one.

Embeddings are underrated# -

Your AI Product Needs Evals - I keep coming back to this post when I play with AI.

Create interactive shaders to use on desktop, mobile and in the browser. - Source for shaders that you can use for a light show.

Thinking Like an AI - Great summary of how LLMs work from Ethan Mollick

How CSS Floats Work - This whole site is a fun dive into browser internals and behaviors.

setBigTimeout - ✨innovation✨

Upstream downstream relationships - Really awesome deep dive into the history of browser engines and how be a good “upstream” or “downstream”

Improving rendering performance with CSS content-visibility - Yet another wonderful deep dive into effective web perf analysis from Nolan.

CSS @property and the New Style - I feel like I’ll never be competent with CSS.

How I Added Maps to my Travel Posts - I track my location a ton.

How does it work?

How to make your web page faster before it even loads - A bit of a sales pitch for Sentry, but a good FCP article nonetheless.

Priority Guides: A Content-First Alternative to Wireframes - Referred to in the previous link, a good primer for how to think about starting a design without wireframes.

Redesigning Piccalilli: the first part of the design process - First part of a view into how real thorough web design happens.

What would you like to create?

CodeViz - Understanding a codebase is a key problem for devs.

Layers and Compositing - Web app memory is something I’ve been thinking about lately, and this is another masterpiece from Joe Liccini.

– A Grammar of Interactive Graphics - Vega looks like a declarative way to create charts.

Cache Grab: How Much Are You Leaving on the Table?

Jason Gorman on speed and productivity - Good framing of developer efficiency

What is a Transformer?

Automating my /now page - Realllyyyyyyy need to finish my now page automation.

Best Practices for Creating a Culture of Web Performance - Culture is one of the hardest problems in web performance, and this has some excellent tips for getting started.

How to Read a RUM Histogram - SpeedCurve’s web performance documentation is really great for people new to the space.

📵 Going Phoneless - I really want to try going phoneless at some point.

Let's Design A Keyboard With Ergogen v4: Introduction - I’ve always wanted to build an actual custom keyboard, this seems like it’d make it way easier if I were to ever actually do it.

How we sped up Notion in the browser with WASM SQLite - WASM SQLite is interesting in theory, but hadn’t seen anything at this scale.

All I Need to Know About Engineering Leadership I Learned From Leave No Trace - Beautiful analogies.

We need visual programming.

Ship That Code • Publish That Post - I really need to start publishing my longer posts.

Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions: Exploring the Emotion Wheel - This is a cool visual for emotions that I hadn’t seen before.

Weird things engineers believe about Web development - After working on Edge and web standards for a few years, this is a great read for anyone who thinks they know how the industry works 😂

Step-by-Step Guide to the Color Fill Laser Cut Process - Pretty laser cutting technique.

AI’s $600B Question - The economics of the current AI boom are staggering.

Design for the People: The US Web Design System and the Public Sans Typeface - Beautiful public data has some super interesting reads of large-scale problems that most people don’t even realize exist.

Compare PDFs - Simon has some of the best AI knowledge today, and I love that he’s sharing how he prompts and approaches some of the problems he’s solving.

Microfeatures I Love in Blogs and Personal Websites - Fun list of ideas for this blog.

Readability: Google's Temple to Engineering Excellence - I had never actually heard of “readability” as a concept like this, but it makes a lot of sense for organizations that can afford it.