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.
Using an Eleventy event to optimize component JavaScript
My site leverages a number of web component for functionality on my site. Namely: mastodon post embeds, search, my now playing component, my theme toggle, post…
Sharing links via RSS, sharing links via APIs
I follow and subscribe to a whole bunch of blogs and less and less high-volume news via RSS. It's one of my absolute favorite mediums for keeping up with and…
How layout position impacts three big web performance levers
We help Shopify merchants improve their web performance and see three common problems related to layout position: Lazy loading images above the fold…
Some little ways I’m using CSS :has() in the real world
There’s a lot of chatter around the new(ish) :has() pseudo-class. It’s something we’ve been crying out for, for years: being able to select parent elements! A…
Progressively Enhanced HTML Accordion
Does what it says on the tin. Uses <details> and <summary> with a bit of ARIA to create an accordion that works without JavaScript while…
Adding Search to an Eleventy Site Without Client-side JavaScript
Adding Search to an Eleventy Site Without Client-side JavaScript October 9th, 2023 Earlier this year (2023) I added a search feature to my blog. I’ve always…
Sliders degrade UX (so do this instead)
18 February 2024 My friend Victor shared this design tip on Twitter last week: He said that if you put the slider values on top, your finger won’t cover them…
Simplify sharing with built-in APIs and progressive enhancement
You’ve written a great post or produced a delightful website and now you want people to share it. In times gone by, you might be tempted to add a section like…
Deploy an Eleventy site to Cloudflare Pages efficiently with GitHub's action cache
I have wanted to move this site from Netlify for a while now, but the recent news about their bandwidth pricing made me finally do it. I looked into some…
Automated weekly links posts with raindrop.io and Eleventy
A post that's been getting a lot of traction recently is I miss human curation by Cassidy Williams, in which she laments that we're so reliant on algorithms…