This is a curated list of articles I've read and have shared online as I believe they are worth sharing. I aim to update this list on a weekly basis. You can keep up to date with all the links I share by revisiting this page, or alternately, you can subscribe to the RSS feed for links.
Sanding UI
One of the ways I like to do development is to build something, click around a ton, make tweaks, click around more, more tweaks, more clicks, etc., until I…
Different ways to use “--patch” in Git
I’ve written previously about using --patch to interactively stage changes. But did you know that you can use --patch (aka -p) to similar effect with other Git…
Hourly Billing Is Stopping Your Growth
Do you want to earn more, work less and be a more fulfilled freelancer?
Organising Eleventy Filters, Shortcodes and more…
I work a lot with the Laravel framework, which scaffolds much of your initial setup and has conventions for where code should be stored. Starting a brand new…
Dynamic Importing with Eleventy
After organising Eleventy filters, shortcodes etc I had an idea to tidy the code even more and make it dynamic. I wanted to automatically import any new…
The secret inside One Million Checkboxes
A few days into making One Million Checkboxes I thought I’d been hacked. What was that doing in my database? A few hours later I was tearing up, proud of some…
Gardening and code
There’s a section of my yard where not much grows. We tried to get turf grass to grow for years. Wasted a ton of time, money, and resources on seeds, water,…
Paragraphs
Consider the following: I am a paragraph. I am also a paragraph. You might hate it, but I'm a paragraph too. Even I am a paragraph. Though I'm a list item as…
The aside element
If you’re reading these HTML element guides alphabetically, you will have already read about <article> and learned what a sectioning element is.…
New Workflow for Publishing Notes: Content in Dropbox, Code in GitHub
I recently changed my workflow around authoring and publishing my site notes.jim-nielsen.com. Here’s the rundown. Before Pretty standard JAMstack type stuff.…