Steven Woodson

Posts about product resilience abound – writing resilient code, designing resilient interfaces (there’s even a book!)

I’ve been noticing so many folks adding Bluesky likes and comments to their personal blogs, after tacking on webmentions a while back I thought it’d be a great addition to mine too.

Saying goodbye to a client is always tough, but as a freelance consultant, it feels profoundly different from my agency days.

I recently had a use case where CMS provided headlines needed to reasonably fit into a well defined space within a hero section.

Hat tip to all the other digital accessibility focused folks out there, fighting the good fight to advocate, educate, and drive accessibility forward.

I keep hearing great things about Astro, and just so happened to have a personal project that I needed to move off of Nuxt 2 as its end of life date is rapidly approaching.

As a freelance web dev consultant, I’ve been having a whole lot of introductory conversations.

I’ve recently been jumping into learning more about Astro, using a personal project that needs to be replatformed as an excuse to give it a try.

I received some great feedback from a recent social media post (on LinkedIn and Mastodon) about my sometimes unhealthy obsession with my todo list, I’m glad it resonated with so many people!

Preamble I’ve been working on this recap in bits and pieces since the State of the Browser conference in September.

It’s been a while since I made some business cards, but I really wanted something to leave with folks I meet at conferences and meetups that would be both memorable and personal.

I mentioned in the last post that I was considering only taking this through week 8.

I shared the Eleventy Style Guide Generator (source is on GitHub, here’s the demo site it generates, and an intro video from the September Eleventy meetup) a few weeks ago.

TL;DR This is another part in a series of posts about WordPress content being pulled into Eleventy, including: Composable Architecture Powered by WordPress (where it all started) Pulling WordPress Content into Eleventy Adding a Table of Contents to dynamic

TL;DR I created an Eleventy style guide generator, features include: Automatically itemized JSON-formatted design tokens like colors, fonts, and fluid scale and sizing.

Wow, five weeks already?

Keeping the weekly check in train rolling!

This is a follow up post from The Ideal Client and Project – Freelance Introspection, continuing my introspective journey as I iterate on my various online presences that I’d roughly call my “personal brand”.

I’m following the same format I did in last weeks check in, it’s the simplest way to jot things down quickly and seemed to be well received as “easily parsable”.

I’ve realized there’s a surprising amount of introspection required when you decide to go freelance.

It’s been a week since I shared I’m focusing on full time freelance web dev, which was about a week after being let go from my previous full time position.

TL;DR I’m terrible at burying the lede (as it’s the title of this post) so I’m starting with the TL;DR.

If you’ve been following the news lately, it’s been a rather tough time in technology this year.

I’m trying to be more intentional about reading through the backlog of cool projects, articles, and newsletters I collect throughout the day.

Sometimes you’ve gotta make time to build something fun, today I whipped up a Plaid Swatch Generator!

Do you ever find yourself constantly on the go, always trying to be productive?

How’s that for a title?

I recently had the opportunity to rethink how some CDN customizations were happening within an Amazon AWS managed project.

Yet another case of trying to find an answer to a very particular problem, coming up empty, solving it myself, and posting about it for future generations.

I’ve finally spent some time setting up Webmentions and adding some Microformats formatting to this site!

This is a follow up post to Pulling WordPress Content into Eleventy, I’ve also written about how to make use of WordPress post categories and tags too.

I recently had the opportunity to redo the header section of an inherited codebase.

In Eleventy, there’s a lot of helpful built in methods to manage content sorting by date.

I’ve been given the immense privilege of leading projects and teams of various sizes over the years, and an equally immense amount of grace as I inevitably messed something up in each of them.

It could be the nostalgic reflection that seems to come on at the end of the calendar year but I’m giving this some thought to see if it affects my goals going into 2023.

This is a follow up on my previous post Composable Architecture Powered by WordPress, focused specifically on how to pull content from WordPress via the built-in RESTful API into an Eleventy-based static site.

I’ve come across the following SSH server key error a handful of times while working within my local environments and every time I’ve had to look up what it is and how to get around it.

I recently started seeing a recurring exception pop up on one of my sites related to resizing and caching of images, after a bit of digging I realized what the underlying issue ended up being and figured I should document how I went about fixing it.

It’s inevitable that – as a developer – I continue to change my mind and feel the urge to tinker again and again.

Happy to say I recently checked off a pretty large goal off my list by achieving my CPACC certification!

I love getting feedback from folks using the Be Inclusive app, my favorite feedback by far is actionable suggestions to make the app better.

The problem I recently came across an interesting issue where several prerequisites led to my turning to the object-fit CSS property to achieve the desired layout.

I wrote an earlier post called “Improving Your Emotional Intelligence,” which introduced the topic of soft skills and practical advice on how to incorporate those skills into your life in measurable ways.

Today we celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day with an exploration into how building empathy is fundamental to improving our approach to web accessibility.

Anyone that’s been in earshot of me has likely heard my ramblings about style guides, and a big part of that lately has been establishing a vertical rhythm and using a modular scale.

Who doesn’t want to make a difference in other people’s lives while also maintaining productivity?

If there’s one item that doesn’t change from project to project, it’s timelines and budgets.

In this article, we’re going to trace the path we took to accomplish a unique, cohesive design system for multiple sites within a single Content Management System (CMS) platform installation.

While working on a responsive refresh of the Upshot website I came across some buggy behavior when mixing an off-canvas menu with a fixed position element on the page.

As a web developer the potential for career stagnation – feeling stuck, idle, and lacking progression – is higher than average.